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Creating charts from data
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5. To set display options for axes labels, click X-Axis, Y-Axis, or Radius (bubble chart only)
and do the following:
6. Set any other options, then click Print or Save as Layout (quick charts) or Done (Layout
mode charts) to finish the chart. See
Creating quick charts or Creating and editing charts in
Layout mode.
Notes
• Decimal and thousands characters can be any ASCII character except a hyphen (-).
• If a format applied to a data series is incompatible with the data returned (for example, date
settings are applied to a text field containing the string “date”), the data point is ignored and
does not appear in the chart.
Related topics
Creating quick charts
To Do this
Change the angle of data point
labels
For Label Angle, enter a value between 0 (zero) and 90 or
click or drag the angle control
.
Set the scale for tick marks For Scale, choose one of the following:
• Select Linear to measure data that changes
arithmetically (for example, sales growth or decline).
• Select Logarithmic to measure data that changes
exponentially (for example, sound waves measured in
decibels or earthquake magnitudes).
Specify tick mark
characteristics
Select Show major ticks or Show minor ticks, then enter a
value to specify the frequency that labels appear on tick
marks. If you don’t specify tick mark settings, FileMaker
Pro
estimates an appropriate tick mark setting (auto) based on
the data values in your chart.
Select Set minimum or Set maximum, then enter a value to
specify the range of tick marks displayed.
Positive/Negative charts: Select Set mid-point to specify a
custom mid-point. The default mid-point is zero.
Format labels based on the
field type
For Data Type, choose the appropriate field type, then
choose data format characteristics. For example, you can
display number data as a decimal, percentage, or as
currency.
Notes
• Custom decimals or thousand separators must be ASCII
printable characters.The tilde character (~) is not
allowed.
• Decimal digits must be from 0 (zero) to 99.
• You must enter a positive number for Fixed number of
decimals.