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Title: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: mikegreen on 25 Jan 2006 09:56:27 PM
Is there any way to force all chart titles to rotate 45 or 90 degrees?  I see we have the option to allow 45 or 90 degree rotation (as well as stagger and skip), but no way to force them all to.

My issue is, when I have 4 charts on a page, only 2 really NEED to rotate the horizontal titles, but it looks silly if 2 rotate and the other 2 dont.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: BIsrik on 31 Jan 2006 06:53:05 AM
Sorry, Could not really get what u r looking for..45,90 degree rotation refers to the category column values and not the chart title. What do u mean by saying rotate the horizontal titles.

Srik
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: mikegreen on 31 Jan 2006 08:43:01 AM
Oops, I think I misspoke there - I meant the axis labels.

Such as the dates that run along the bottom of a trending chart, etc.

Thanks

Mike
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: BIsrik on 01 Feb 2006 01:23:06 AM
to do this..set the allow truncation to 'no' and set the 45 or 90 degree rotation. Thats it..

Srik
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: mikegreen on 01 Feb 2006 08:03:49 AM
That only works for the longer labels.  If I have just the month name like 'Jan' 'Feb' 'Mar', it won't rotate them as they aren't long enough to even try to truncate.

The issue is that I'd like all the charts on the page to appear uniform, and these don't rotate like the others (the others have longer labels) thus they look out of place.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: JoeBass on 01 Feb 2006 08:08:33 AM
I'm sure you've already tried but, in case not, does adding spaces to the label make RN think that they're longer?
Title: Re: [unsolved] Forcing chart titles to be 45/90 degrees
Post by: mikegreen on 05 Feb 2006 05:03:27 PM
Quote from: JoeBass on 01 Feb 2006 08:08:33 AM
I'm sure you've already tried but, in case not, does adding spaces to the label make RN think that they're longer?

Joe,
My data format is set to Date, medium, then pattern is MMM YYYY for Jan 2006, Feb 2006, etc display.

If I add "     MMM YYYY" it doesn't change anything :-(

I'm not sure how I can add spaces to the date and retain the valid sorting (if I make it a string, it'll sort alpha).

Thoughts? Thanks for the idea..

Mike