Displaying Data Labels Configuring Font Formats Configuring Value Formats

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6.6 Displaying Data Labels

In chart view types, you can choose to display data labels that show values, percentages, or data series names. To display data labels: 1. Click the Properties button in the View Editor. To open the View Editor, double-click the view you are editing, or click Edit view in the View TasksOptions list.

2. Select the Data Labels tab.

3. Select the check boxes to display data labels.

You can select any combination of label types to display.

4. Click Apply or OK.

6.7 Configuring Font Formats

The Fonts tab in the View Editor lets you select and format the fonts used in the view. Formatting Views 6-9 To format fonts: 1. Click the Properties button in the View Editor. To open the View Editor, double-click the view you are editing, or click Edit view in the View TasksOptions list.

2. Select the Font tab.

3. Select a target from the Apply To list.

4. Select a font name from the Font list.

5. Select a font style from the Style list.

6. Select a font size from the Size list.

7. Click the color swatch to change the font color.

A color palette is displayed.

8. Select a color from the palette.

The color swatch changes color and the color hexadecimal number is displayed in the Color field. You can also specify the color by typing or pasting a hexadecimal number in this field.

9. Choose effects to apply to the text by selecting the check boxes and radio buttons.

10. Click Apply or OK.

6.8 Configuring Themes

You can select color themes for chart views and the Crosstab and Matrix views, but not Summary Crosstab view. To choose a theme: 1. Click the Properties button in the View Editor. To open the View Editor, double-click the view you are editing, or click Edit view in the View TasksOptions list.

2. Select the Themes tab.

3. Select an option to choose a preconfigured color scheme.

6-10 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring If your chart only includes two colors, the colors are applied in the order listed in the color scheme. If your chart requires more than seven colors, the colors are repeated with patterns applied to represent more values.

4. Click Apply or OK.

6.8.1 Adding and Changing Themes

You can change the theme colors and add more themes using Oracle BAM Architect. To add a theme: 1. Open Oracle BAM Architect and select Data Objects from the list. 2. Select the Chart Themes or Matrix Themes data object located in the Data ObjectsSystemViews folder.

3. Click Contents.

4. Click Edit Contents.

5. Click Add.

6. Enter an Name and unique Number.

7. Enter a hexadecimal number corresponding to each color choice in each of the

color fields. Chart Themes can have up to 16 colors. Matrix Themes let you specify a Border Color, Heading Border Color, and Cell Border Color. In addition you can add up to 10 colors and 10 font colors.

8. Click Save.

6.9 Configuring Value Formats

Use value formatting to apply currency or decimal formatting to a field containing numeric values, or to apply date formatting to datetime fields. You can specify value formatting when you create or edit a report from the View Editor. To specify value format: 1. Click the Properties button in the View Editor. To open the View Editor, double-click the view you are editing, or click Edit view in the View TasksOptions list.

2. Select the Value Format tab.

3. Select a field from the Apply To list.

4. Select the category describing the value format, and select from the following

options: ■ If you select General, no other formatting selections must be made. Formatting Views 6-11 ■ If you select Number, specify a negative number format, the number of decimal places to include, and click the Digits Grouping Symbol check box to apply the comma as a thousands separator. Select the Round to the nearest check box to display numbers in shorter form such a 20K for 20,000. ■ If you select Percent, specify the number of decimal places to include. ■ If you select Currency, specify a negative number format, the number of decimal places to include, and a currency symbol. Select the Round to the nearest check box to display numbers in shorter form such a 20K for 20,000. ■ If you select Timestamp, specify a timestamp format. You can select Adjust time zone from GMT to check box to make time zone adjustments. ■ If you select Time or Date, choose a type of time or date format in the Type list. You can select Adjust time zone from GMT to check box to make time zone adjustments. ■ If you select TimeUnit, choose the unit of time to represent from the Type list. ■ If you select HTML, no other formatting selections must be made. HTML only applies to calculated fields containing HTML to ensure that the HTML is displayed correctly in the view.

5. Select the Zero check box and enter a value to substitute for zero values. This

option is only enabled for Number, Currency, and Percent formats.

6. Select the NULL check box and enter a value to substitute for null values.

7. Click Apply or OK.

6.10 Configuring the Display of Active Data