Bar charts are useful for showing comparisons between categories of data or comparing changes for multiple groups over the same period of time. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the customization options available for Bar charts.
Pigment Bar chart
The way you set up your View has a big impact on your final Bar chart. The following articles help you effectively set up your View before customizing your chart:
Use the Pivot feature to change the axis and add/remove Dimensions.
Use the Filter feature to remove Items from a List.
Use the Sort feature to change the order of Items in the chart.
Here are the options for customizing a Bar chart:
Setting | Description | Options |
Layout | Configures how series are clustered visually on a chart. | Grouped: series are clustered side-by-side. Stacked: series values are added on the Y axis, so each consecutive series appears above the last one. Make sure the units of all series match. |
Bar direction | Configures the bar direction. | Vertical: bars of each series are displayed vertically. Horizontal: bars of each series are displayed horizontally. |
Bar margin | Controls the width of each individual bar. | Move the slider to the right to increase the thickness of the bars or left to reduce it. |
Show label | Shows/hides the label inside each bar displaying the value of the bar. | Toggle on/off (on by default) When bars become too thin to display within the chart they disappear unless Allow Label overlap is turned on. |
Bar label position | Allows you to position the Bar chart label at the top of the instead of the center in Grouped chart layouts. | Toggle on/off (on by default) |
Allow Label overlap | Shows/hides the label inside each bar displaying the value of the bar. This feature ensures labels are present even if the bars are too thin. | Toggle on/off (on by default) |
Show stack total | Displays the total of a bar stack at the top of the bar in Stacked chart layouts. | Toggle on/off (off by default) |
X label orientation | Configures the orientation of the X axis labels. Longer labels automatically have wrapped text. To avoid label overlap, use the diagonal or vertical option. | Horizontal, vertical or diagonal. Diagonal labels are not supported when multiple dimensions are displayed in the axis at the same time. |
Color by Theme | Configures different presets of colors to represent each series. | Outside of your Workspace Color Palette, Pigment supports nine presets: Pigment, Rainbow Spectrum, Copenhagen Facades, Sunset Boulevard, Winter Wonderland, Utility, Moreno Glacier, Autumn in New York, and Summer Sky. To use a Pigment theme:
To customize your Workspace palette or add additional colors for use in themes:
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Color by Dimension Items | Applies the colors defined on each Dimension in the data model to represent each series. | To color your chart series by Dimension Items:
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Customize colors | Allows you to select the individual colors for Items within a Series. | Select Edit chart colors to assign each Item its own individual color. Pigment remembers the order of your selection if you switch through different Color themes. For example, if you assign an Item the first color in a palette, it remains the first color regardless of which theme you select. |
Show X gridline and Show Y gridline | Enables the appearance of gridlines extending from the X and Y axes. | Toggle on/off (on by default) |
Hide Y axis | Removes the Y axis from View. | Toggle on/off (on by default) |
Show legend | Shows/hides the legend of the chart series. Use this option to display or hide the legend. | Toggle on/off (on by default) |
Legend position | Configures the position of the legend. | The legend can be set to four different positions: Bottom right (default), Top right, Bottom center, Top center. It is scrollable for longer lists. |