Intro
Refer to this topic to find information about chart properties available for most chart types, such as those for configuring data labels and hovers, scale markers, value and category scale labels, and so on.
"General" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the General category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Font Size |
Allows you to increase or decrease the font size for category and value scale labels in many chart types. For Textboxes, a number of sizes are available ranging from Small to XX-Large. If you select Default, the size is chosen that best matches the amount of available space. So, if you had the maximum amount of space available, the "XX-Large" size would be used. For more information, see Changing the Font Size in Your Chart. |
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Portrait View Legend Position |
Determines where legends appear in charts in portrait view. By default, legends appear on the bottom of the chart in this view. For more information, see Changing the Legend Position in Your Chart. |
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Landscape View Legend Position |
Determines where legends appear in charts in landscape view. By default, legends appear on the right of the chart in this view. If you select Auto, the legend appears to the right of the chart if it contains 10 or fewer items. Otherwise it appears at the bottom of the chart. For more information, see Changing the Legend Position in Your Chart. |
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Reverse Legend Layout Order |
Reverses the order in which legend items appear. |
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Disable Animation |
Turns off the animations that play when the viewing a chart in the Details view. |
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"Grid Lines" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Grid Lines category in Chart Properties for most kinds of charts.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Zero Line Color |
Determines the color for the "zero line" on most single-axis charts. You can enter either the name of the color or the hexadecimal color code (such as FF0000 for red). This attribute does not work if the zero line is also the baseline (that is, the chart must contain negative values). In the example, this property has been set to red. |
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Zero Line Width |
Determines the width of the "zero line" on most single-axis charts, in pixels. This attribute does not work if the zero line is also the baseline (that is, the chart must contain negative values). In the example, this property has been set to 5. |
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Calculated Line | Lets you set an additional grid line that denotes the median or average value in the chart. In the example, the user has selected Average. | ![]() |
"Data Label Settings" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Data Label Settings category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Text |
Specifies text for data labels. This property is the "on switch" for data labels—you must specify text for them to appear. For more information about creating data label text, including a list of available macros, see Formatting Data Label and Hover Text in Your Chart. |
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Position |
Determines where data labels are shown in relation to their corresponding data items. Available positions differ between chart types. For example, Pie and Funnel graphs include Outside Leaders and Outside Arranged Leaders options. Leaders are lines that connect data labels to their associated data items in the graph. If you select Outside Leaders, diagonal leaders are used; if you select Outside Arranged Leaders, the leaders are horizontal. The example shows a chart in which the data label position is set to Inside Top for a Vertical Bar graph. |
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Fill |
Lets you add a colored fill to your data labels. The example at right shows a chart in which a red fill color with 45% transparency has been added. |
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Fill Color |
Lets you specify the color for the fill in your data labels. This property is only available when you check the Fill box. |
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Fill Transparency Percent |
Lets you specify the fill transparency for data labels. You can specify any number between 0 and 100, in which 0 is completely opaque and 100 is completely transparent. This property is only available when you check the Fill box. |
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Rotate |
Lets you rotate data labels 90 degrees. The example at right shows a chart in which this has been done. |
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Justification |
Determines the justification for multi-line data labels—either Left, Center, or Right. For information about creating data label text, see Formatting Data Label and Hover Text in Your Chart. The example graph includes multi-line data labels that have been left-justified (by selecting Left for the Justification property). |
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Show When Zero |
Determines whether data labels are shown for graph elements with a value of 0. |
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Use Scale Format |
Determines whether data labels use the same formatting that has been set for the value scale. |
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Use Scale Abbreviation |
Determines whether data labels use the same scale abbreviation that has been set for the value scale. |
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Percent Value Decimal Places |
Determines the number of decimal places used in percentage values in data labels. |
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Allow Overlap |
Determines whether data labels are still shown when they overlap. |
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Show Data Labels On |
Determines whether data labels appear for lines, bars, or both in line-bar combination charts. |
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"Hover Text Settings" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Hover Text Settings category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Hover Text |
Lets you set the text that appears in chart hovers. A variety of macros for showing chart values in your hovers is available. For more information and a list of available macros, see Formatting Data Label and Hover Text in Your Chart. |
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Use scale format |
Determines whether hovers use the same formatting that has been set for the value scale. This property overrides the Hover Format, Divide Value By, Decimal Places, and Negative Numbers properties. |
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Use scale abbreviation |
Determines whether hovers use the same scale abbreviation that has been set for the value scale. |
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Hover Format |
Determines whether values in hovers have currency or percent symbols affixed. This property is overridden by the Use scale format property. |
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Divide Value By |
When set, values in hovers are divided by the specified factor. This option is useful when the values in your chart are very large and you want to abbreviate them by dividing by a common number. For example, if the values in your chart represented millions of dollars, you could choose to divide by millions—all of the values in the hovers would then be reduced to more manageable single digits. When you choose to divide by Percentage, the numbers in the value scale are multiplied by 100. This property is overridden by the Use scale format property. |
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Decimal Places |
Determines the number of decimal places in values in hovers. This property is overridden by the Use scale format property. |
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"Value Scale" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Value Scale category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Title |
Determines whether labels appear alongside value scales. For more information, see Adding Scale Titles to Your Chart. The example shows a Grouped Bar with Line chart in which value scale labels are used to distinguish the line and bar data. |
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Show Label |
Determines whether labels appear for value items. |
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Label Format |
Determines the general number format for value scale numbers and data labels. For more information, see Formatting Values in Your Chart. |
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Divide Scale By |
Refers to the number that values in the value scale are to be divided by, if any. This option is useful when the numbers on your value scale are very large and you want to abbreviate them by dividing by a common number. For example, if all of the numbers on the value scale represented millions of dollars, you could choose to divide by millions—all of the numbers on the scale would then be reduced to more manageable single digits. When you choose to divide by Percentage, the numbers in the value scale are multiplied by 100. |
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Decimal Places |
Determines the number of decimal places used in decimal values. You can choose from Default, None, and options for numbers of decimal places (from ".0" to ".00000"). By default, Domo automatically determines the optimal number of decimal places for each number in the chart. When you select None, all values are rounded to the nearest whole number. |
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Negative Numbers |
Determines the format for negative numbers. If you select -100, all negative numbers have a minus symbol affixed. If you select (100), all negative numbers are enclosed in parentheses. |
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Max |
Determines the maximum values on a value scale. For more information, see Setting the Minimum or Maximum Value on Your Chart's Value Scale. |
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Min |
Determines the minimum values on a value scale. For more information, see Setting the Minimum or Maximum Value on Your Chart's Value Scale. |
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Divisions |
Determines the number of value scale gridlines in a chart. For more information, see Specifying the Number of Value Scale Gridlines in Your Chart. The example shows a chart with eight value scale gridlines. |
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Log Scale |
Determines whether the value scale increments logarithmically. On a logarithmic scale, each successive increase is exponential. These scales are useful when you have a wide range of data that doesn't fit well on a regular linear scale. The example shows a chart that uses a logarithmic scale to handle a wide range of data. |
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Include Zero |
Determines whether a line for "0" appears in the chart. |
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"Category Scale" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Category Scale category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Title |
Determines whether labels appear alongside category scales. For more information, see Adding Scale Titles to Your Chart. The example shows a chart in which a category scale label is used. |
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Show Label |
Determines whether labels appear for category items. |
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Tiered Dates |
Determines whether multiple levels of dates are shown and, if so, how many. You can have up to 3 levels of dates. For example, if the dates in your chart were represented by week and you selected 3 Tiers, the timeline would continue to show weekly data but the weeks would be broken out into monthly divisions, and the months would be broken out into quarters, as shown in the screenshot. For more information about Tiered Dates, see Applying DataSet Columns to Your Chart. |
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Date Output Format |
Determines how dates appear in the chart. For more information, see Changing the Date Format in Your Chart and Adding Filters to Your Chart. |
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Label Interval |
The interval at which labels appear for items on the category scale when there are too many items to show. By default, when there are more labels than fit on the category scale, Domo automatically trims out enough labels to prevent label overlapping. However, you can specify the interval at which labels are trimmed. For example, if you wanted every third label to appear in your chart and all others to be trimmed, you would enter |
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Max Label Length |
Determines the maximum number of characters that appear for each category label. This property does not work unless a value is also entered for Max Rotated Label Length. The example shows a chart in which the Max Label Length has been set to |
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Allow Label Rotation |
Determines whether labels are rotated if necessary in most kinds of Line charts. |
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Max Rotated Label Length |
Determines the maximum number of characters that appear when labels are rotated. This property does not work unless a Max Label Length value is specified. |
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Never Use Time Scale |
Determines which type of time scale is used in supported chart types with time data. By default, when time data is used in supported charts, such as Line and Bar charts, Domo automatically makes it appear using a date grain appropriate for your data. This is shown in the first example at right, in which the timeline takes date data spanning several months and shows it by month. If there are periods with no data, gaps are shown accordingly in the timeline. If you check this box, however, date data appears as it does in your DataSet, using individual dates and applying the Date Output Format setting. This is shown in the second example at right, in which the time scale uses individual dates, as in the DataSet. If there are periods with no data, gaps are not shown for those periods in the timeline. |
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Show Tiered or Extra Categories | In the event that your chart includes either Tiered Dates or additional dimensions, this option determines whether the extra category names appear above (default) or below the chart. In the example at right, the names appear below. | ![]() |
"Trellis/Tiered Dates" properties
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Show As |
Lets you either turn on trellis categories or tiered dates in most chart types. When you turn on trellis categories, new fields in which you can drag and drop additional series are added above the chart preview. When you turn on tiered dates, multiple levels of dates are activated in your chart. Both of these features are discussed in Applying DataSet Columns to Your Chart. |
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Tiered Date Levels |
Determines how many levels of dates are shown. You can have up to 3 levels of dates. For example, if the dates in your chart were represented by week and you selected 3 Levels, the timeline would continue to show weekly data but the weeks would be broken out into monthly divisions, and the months would be broken out into quarters, as shown in the screenshot. For more information about tiered dates, see Applying DataSet Columns to Your Chart. |
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Divider Color |
Lets you specify the color for the dividing lines in your trellis chart or tiered dates chart. In the example at right, the dividing lines have been set to blue-green. |
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Mid Word Title Wrap |
Determines whether category name titles wrap in the middle of words and not just on spaces. |
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Show Tiered or Extra Categories |
Determines whether the extra category names appear above (default) or below your trellis or tiered dates chart. In the example at right, the names appear below. |
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Maximum Bars | Sets the maximum bars to be displayed in each group. This can be used with the "Sort on Totals" property to create a Top 10 type chart. | ![]() |
"Number Format" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Number Format category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Examples |
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Currency Symbol |
Refers to the symbol for currency numbers. The default currency symbol is "$." You must select Currency as your label format for this to work. For more information, see Formatting Values in Your Chart. |
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Currency Symbol Position |
Determines whether a currency symbol appears before or after its value. The default currency symbol position is Before. You must select Currency as your label format for this to work. For more information, see Formatting Values in Your Chart. |
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Decimal Separator |
Determines the symbol for separate decimal values. The default decimal separator is a period. |
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Thousands Separator |
Determines the symbol for separate thousands in large numbers. The default thousands separator is a comma. |
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"Scale Marker" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Scale Marker category in Chart Properties.
"Data Table" Properties
The properties in the following table are found in the Data Table category in Chart Properties.
Option |
Description |
Example |
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Show Data Table |
Allows you to include a data table under your chart. This data table appears in the Details view of the chart (though not in the page view). This property is available for most vertical chart types. The example at right shows a chart in which the data table option has been enabled. |
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Auto Abbreviate Values | Allows you to abbreviate values in the data table. | — |
"Full Size Settings" Properties
Full Size Settings |
Allows you to set custom sizing on tables in the card view when the "Full Size" option is selected—anywhere from 1 to 6 card sizes in both width and height. For more information about card sizing, see Changing the Size of Cards in a Page. The first table in the example at right shows a table in the card view that has been set to a 4-card width by a 1-card height. The second table has been set to a 3-card width by a 3-card height. |
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