The Chart dashboard control displays a GainSeeker chart on the dashboard window.
Clicking data points on the Chart
control displays tool tips, and a right-click
menu for the control offers an option for viewing detailed
data on a Data Table window.
This control can automatically refresh at a time interval you define or it can refresh along with the dashboard window.
If you have trouble with "Out of Memory" errors when displaying and refreshing a dashboard that contains a Chart control, see this Known Issue.
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On a dashboard window that is open in design/edit
mode, click the Chart
button on the dashboard controls
toolbar.
On the Dashboard Control Retrieval window, select a retrieval and then click Next.
If you selected an SPC retrieval, this adds a control chart for the first SPC standard in the retrieval.
If you selected a DMS retrieval, this adds a Pareto chart for all DMS standards or processes in the retrieval.
Move this control to the desired location.
Edit the properties for this control.
There are two ways to change the location of this control on a dashboard window that is open in design/edit mode,
Click and drag the Chart
tab on the control to move it to a new location on the dashboard window.
Edit this control's Layout properties such as Anchor, Dock, and Location.
There are two ways to select this control so that you can edit its properties (when the dashboard is open in design/edit mode):
Click the Chart tab
on the control.
Click the Properties window drop-down menu and select the Chart control.
Significant properties for this control include:
Property |
Default setting or default display |
Allows |
Appearance |
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BorderStyle |
None: No border is displayed around the outside edge of this control. |
Choose the style of border to display. |
None: Default display settings are applied to this chart. |
Select a chart skin to apply its Chart override settings such as default reports, labels and titles, colors, fonts, line types, markers, etc. |
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Z-Order |
0: Lowest priority when overlapped by other controls. |
When objects overlap or when the dashboard is saved as an .rtf file (such as when sending to Word or WordPad), a control with a higher Z-Order will be displayed and exported above a control with a lower Z-Order. Enter a number to specify the order you want for this control in relation to other controls on the same dashboard. |
Behavior |
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0: Do not set a timer to automatically refresh this control with the latest data. Refreshing the entire dashboard window can still refresh this control. |
Set the number of seconds to elapse before automatically refreshing this control. |
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If you have GainSeeker Publish, you can save an image of this control to a file each time this control is refreshed by this control's Timer property or by the Dashboard window's Timer property. To use this feature, click this property and then click the ellipsis button . Use the Save As window to select a location and enter a file name.
To turn off this feature, select the file name in the value field and delete it. |
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Data |
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The retrieval you selected when adding this control to the dashboard. |
Select a different retrieval for this control.
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DesignData |
True: While you are designing/editing the dashboard, display fictional "data" instead of waiting for this control to retrieve actual data from your GainSeeker database and calculate statistics. When running the dashboard, users will see the actual data and statistics from the retrieval, not this fictional "data". |
False: While you are designing/editing the dashboard, retrieve the actual data from your GainSeeker database and calculate statistics. This takes more time than using the fictional "data", but you can see exactly how the control will look when running the dashboard, and you may find it easier to fine-tune the properties of this control. This option is only used temporarily until you stop using design/edit mode; each time you open the dashboard in design/edit mode, this property is automatically reset to True. |
SPC Data |
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You cannot change this property. |
Layout |
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Anchor |
Top, Left: When the dashboard window is resized:
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You can select or clear any combination of the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right edges. When the dashboard window is resized:
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Dock |
None |
You can align this control to one edge of the dashboard window and autosize the control to match the size of that window edge. or set it to fill the remaining space in the dashboard window. If multiple controls on this dashboard are docked, they will be aligned to each other and resize as a group. The order in which controls are added to the dashboard affect the priority in which they are docked. Choose from Top, Left, Right, Bottom, Fill (fills the dashboard window), or the default None (not docked). |
Location |
[varies] |
You can manually set the desired X (horizontal) and Y (vertical) pixel coordinates of the upper-left corner of the control relative to the upper-left corner of the dashboard window. |
Size |
[varies] |
You can manually set the Width and Height in pixels for this control. |