Bar Line Chart Settings (Vega)

General

“Chart title”, “Title font size”, “Chart subtitle”, “Subtitle font size”, and “Show tooltips” can be found in the General section of our Chart Settings page.

Stacked

When selected, stacks each Bar layer. (See the Bar chart’s General settings for more info about stacked Bar charts)

Percentage

Changes your y-axis to show percentages (visually, x-axis if Horizontal is selected)

Charts with a percentage axis are sometimes called 100% stacked charts and are useful for displaying ratios without focusing on individual values.

Legend

“Show legend” and “Placement” can be found in the Legend section of our Chart Settings page.

Axis

X Axis

“Title”, “Rotate labels”, “Hide labels”, “Min”, “Max”, “Steps”, “Date format”, “Data format”, “Number format”, and “Rounding” can be found in the Axis section of our Chart Settings page.

Log axis

Available when the x-axis labels are numeric

Displays the x-axis on a logarithmic scale

Y Axis

“Title”, “Rotate labels”, “Hide labels”, “Min”, “Max”, “Steps”, “Data format”, “Number format”, and “Rounding” can be found in the Y Axis (Left) section of our Chart Settings page.

Log axis

Editable when Stacked is unselected

Displays the y-axis on a logarithmic scale

Y Axis 2

Available when Dual Y-axis is selected

Title

Title for the right y-axis

Rotate labels

Rotate the y-axis labels by -45, -30, 30, or 45 degrees—or don’t rotate them at all

Hide labels

When selected, hides the right y-axis labels

Min

Specify the minimum value of your y-axis

Max

Specify the maximum value of your y-axis

Steps

Specify the number of steps to show between your Min and Max values

Log axis

Editable when Stacked is unselected

Displays the y-axis on a logarithmic scale

Data format

Choose how your values are displayed

• Number
• Percentage: Multiplies the values by 100 and appends a %
• Currency
• None (no format)
• Custom

Number format

Choose how your numbers are displayed

• 1,234.56
• 1234.56
• 1234,56
• 1.234,56
• 1 234,56
• 1’234.56

Rounding

Choose how to round your values—or don’t round

• 1k
• No Rounding
• Round to Integers (1000)
• 2 decimal places
• 3 decimal places

Color

“Background color” and “Use custom colors” can be found in the Color section of our Chart Settings page.

Series

Show dots

Shows dots on the line

Linear interpolation

Choose the type of interpolation for your chart:

• No interpolation (linear): Uses the least number of data points, resulting in more jagged lines
• Step: No slopes; jumps from one value to the next halfway through
• Cardinal (smoothed): Uses more data points than Linear interpolation, resulting in smoother lines

Line weight

Specify the boldness of the line

Use custom styles

Style your lines

• Solid
• Dashed
• Dotted

Dual Y-axis

Selected by default; if deselected, the line will use the same range values as the left y-axis, which may make it more difficult to spot trends in your line

Last X columns as lines

Turns the specified number of columns into lines

Default value is 1, meaning the last column in your result set is charted as a line

Value labels

Shows the values of each bar directly on the chart

Data format

Available when Value labels is selected

Choose how your value labels are displayed

• Number
• Percentage: Multiplies the values by 100 and appends a %
• Currency
• None (no format)

Number format

Available when Data format for value labels is Number

Choose how the numbers in your value labels are displayed

• 1,234.56
• 1234.56
• 1234,56
• 1.234,56
• 1 234,56
• 1’234.56

Currency format

Available when Data format for value labels is Currency

Choose a currency symbol to prepend to your value labels

• $ (USD)
• € (EUR)
• ¥ (JPY)
• £ (GBP)
• ₪ (ILS)
• R$ (BRL)

Rounding

Available when Data format for value labels is Number, Percentage, or Currency

Choose how to round your value labels—or don’t round

• 1k
• No Rounding
• Round to Integers (1000)
• 2 decimal places
• 3 decimal places

Drilldown

Check out Drilldowns for more information on this tab.

Annotation

Check out the Annotation section from the Chart Settings page for more details.