In the toolbar of the editor, click the View Properties button. In the Properties dialog, make any other appropriate changes, and click OK. To set the properties of graph, click the Edit Graph Properties button on the

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1. In the toolbar of the editor, click the View Properties button.

The Table Properties dialog or Pivot Table Properties dialog is displayed. 2. To add green bar styling, click the green bar styling box. To change the way the styling is applied, select a style from the list. 3. To add cosmetic formatting, click the alternate formatting button. The Edit Format dialog is displayed. 4. To change the default green bar color, choose a new background color for the cell format. Make any other appropriate changes, and click OK.

5. In the Properties dialog, make any other appropriate changes, and click OK.

For more information about cosmetic formatting, see What is Cosmetic Formatting? Editing Graph Views You can use graphs of various types for analyzing and displaying data. Figure 3–3 shows a sample bar graph on a dashboard page. Figure 3–3 Sample Bar Graph To edit a graph view: 1. Display the Results tab: Graph editor . For information, see Editing Views .

2. To set the properties of graph, click the Edit Graph Properties button on the

toolbar. The Graph Properties dialog is displayed, where you can set properties: ■ Related to the graph canvas, such as legend location ■ That control the appearance of the graph, such as the style ■ For axis limits and tick marks. ■ That control the display of titles and labels for the graph 3. Use the buttons on the toolbar of the editor to perform functions such as printing a view, exporting a view, and so on. For more information on the buttons common to all views, see Toolbar Buttons Common to All Views . For more information on specific data view buttons, see Data View Editor Toolbar . 3-12 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 4. To affect the contents of the view, use the following panes: ■ Subject Areas pane ■ Catalog pane ■ Layout pane , as described in Modifying the Layout of Data in Views ■ Selection Steps pane ■ for funnel graphs and gauges only Settings pane to set thresholds 5. To drill in the data in the view, see Drilling in Views . Formatting the Visual Appearance of Graphs You can format the visual appearance of graphs based on two settings: ■ The position of the graph elements such as lines or bars in a line-bar graphs or slices in a pie graphs. See Graph Formatting Based on Position ■ Conditions applied to columns. See Graph Formatting Based on Columns Graph Formatting Based on Position Positional formatting enables you to customize the appearance of a graph based on the position of graph elements; that is, the numeric sequence in which graph elements for example, bars are displayed in a group. A group is determined by the attribute columns that are displayed in the Group By drop target area. For information on drop target areas, see Understanding Drop Targets . For example, suppose that you have a bar graph whose criteria includes the Region, Dollars, and Units columns. Dollars are displayed first, then Units in the Measures drop target area. Region is displayed in the Group By drop target. In this graph, Dollars is in position 1 and Units is in position 2 for each regional grouping as shown in Figure 3–4 . Figure 3–4 Example of Position in a Graph You can format the visual appearance of a graph based on position in terms of its color, line width, and line symbols. Graph Formatting Based on Columns Conditional formatting enables you to customize the appearance of a graph based on conditions applied to columns. The formatting is applied to the column values that meet the condition. Adding Views for Display in Dashboards 3-13 You can specify a color in which to display graph data based upon a specific column value, or range of column values that meet the condition specified for the column. For example: ■ Conditionally changing the color of a graph based on specific column values. A user wants to create a bar graph to compare sales between two beverages, Lemonade and Cola. When creating a bar graph the user specifies two conditions, one where the bar representing Lemonade sales is yellow, and another where the bar representing Cola sales is blue. ■ Conditionally changing the color of a graph based on a range of column values. A sales manager wants to create a bar graph to compare sales for all reps across two sales bands.When creating a bar graph the sales manager specifies two conditions, one where the bar is red for all sales reps with sales less than 250,000, and another where the bar is green for all sales reps with sales greater than 250,000. The way that you specify conditional formatting for graphs is different from that used for other views. For information, see Applying Conditional Formatting to Tables and Pivot Tables . To format the appearance of a graph: 1. Click Edit Graph Properties in the toolbar of the graph editor. The Graph Properties dialog is displayed. 2. Click the Graph Properties dialog: Style tab .

3. Click the Style and Conditional Formatting button.