Time, XY, and Event Charts (Legend Tab)    

Show Legend

Specifies whether to display a legend.

Selected – displays the legend.

Cleared – hides the legend.

Transparent

Specifies whether the legend is displayed with a background.

Selected – the legend has an invisible background (i.e., the background of the chart displays behind the legend).

Cleared – the legend displays with a background. The color of the background is set in the Style Options tab of this dialog box.

Orientation

The placement of the legend in a chart.

Top – above the plotting area.

Bottom – under the chart's plotting area. (Default)

Font Size

The point size of the text that appears in the legend.

Point sizes 8 - 72.

Tag Name

Specifies whether to show the name of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the name of the data sources. (Default)

Cleared – hides the name of the data sources.

Description

Specifies whether to show the description of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the descriptions. (Default)

Cleared – hides the data source descriptions.

Value

Specifies whether to show the values from the data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the values. (Default)

Cleared – hides the data source values.

Eng Units

Specifies whether to show the engineering units of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the engineering units.

Cleared – hides the engineering units. (Default)

Mode

Specifies whether to show the retrieval mode (method of calculating the value) of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the retrieval modes.

Cleared – hides the retrieval modes. (Default)

Interval

Specifies whether to show the data point interval of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the intervals.

Cleared – hides the intervals.   (Default)

High Limit

Specifies whether to show the high limit of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the high limits.

Cleared – hides the high limits. (Default)

Low Limit

Specifies whether to show the low limit of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the low limits.

Cleared – hides the low limits. (Default)

High Over
Range

Specifies whether to show the high data value of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the high data values.

Cleared – hides the high data values. (Default)

Low Over
Range

Specifies whether to show the low data value of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the low data values.

Cleared – hides the low data values. (Default)

Avg Over
Range

Specifies whether to show the average data value of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the average data values.

Cleared – hides the average data values. (Default)

GMT Offset

Specifies whether to show the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) offset of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the GMT offsets.

Cleared – hides the GMT offsets. (Default)

Short Time
Zone

Specifies whether to show the time zone abbreviation (for example, EST for Eastern Standard Time) of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the time zone abbreviations.

Cleared – hides the time zone abbreviations. (Default)

Long Time
Zone

Specifies whether to show the time zone name (for example, Central Standard Time) of each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the time zone names.

Cleared – hides the time zone names. (Default)

Time Mode

Specifies whether to show the time mode (i.e. Component time or Item time) for each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the time mode.

Cleared – hides the time mode. (Default)

Start Time

Specifies whether to show the start time for each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the start time.

Cleared – hides the start time. (Default)

End Time

Specifies whether to show the end time for each data source in the legend.

Selected – shows the end time.

Cleared – hides the end time. (Default)

Order list

The order of the columns in the legend.

Columns at the top of the list appear at the left of the legend.

Up arrow button – moves the column toward the top of the list and toward the left in the legend.

Down arrow button – moves the column toward the bottom of the list and toward the right in the legend.

Foreground
Color button

The color of the text in the legend.

This button is available when the Use Pen Line Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Pen
Color

Specifies whether the color of the legend's text will match the chart's pen color.

Selected – legend matches pen color.

Cleared – legend uses a different color.   Foreground Color button is enabled.

Background
Color button

The background color of the each cell in the legend.   

This button is available when the Use Plot Background Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Plot
Background Color

Specifies whether the legend's background color will match the color of the chart's plotting area. This check box is available only if the Transparent check box is cleared.

Selected – background color matches.

Cleared – background uses a different color. Background Color button is enabled.

Foreground
Highlight Color
button

The color used to indicate that a data source is selected in the legend.   

This button is available when the Use Pen Line Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Pen
Color

Specifies whether the text color of the data source selected from the legend will match the chart's pen color.

Selected – highlight color matches pen.

Cleared – highlight color uses a different color. Foreground Highlight Color button is enabled.

Background
Highlight Color
button

The cell color of the selected row in the legend.   

This button is available when the Use Plot Background Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Plot
Background Color

Specifies whether the background cell color of the selected row in the legend will match the color of the chart's plotting area. This check box is available only if the Transparent check box is cleared.

Selected – background highlight color matches plot background.

Cleared – background highlight color uses a different cell color for the selected row. Background Highlight Color button is enabled.

Header
Foreground
Color button

The color of the column header text in the legend.   

This button is available when the Use Title Foreground Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Title
Foreground Color

Specifies whether the color of the column header text will match the color of the chart's title text.

Selected – column header color matches title text.

Cleared – column header uses a different color. Header Foreground button is enabled.

Header
Background
Color button

The background color of each header cell in the legend.   

This button is available when the Use Chart Background Color check box is cleared.

Select a color from the color palette.

Use Chart
Background Color

Specifies whether the background color of each legend header cell will match the chart background color.

Selected – header background color matches chart background.

Cleared – header background color uses a different color.   Header Background button is enabled.

Maximum Rows Displayed

The maximum number of pens to display when legend scrolling is enabled.

1 to 30 pens.

When Enable Row Scrolling check box is cleared, the legend shows all pens in the chart.

Enable Row
Scrolling

Specifies whether scrolling for the chart's legend is enabled.

Use this feature to save space in the chart by minimizing the size of the legend.

Selected – legend shows the number of pens defined by the Maximum Row Displayed field and adds a scroll bar so that you can scroll through the pens in the chart.

Cleared – legend scrolling is disabled.

Hide Legend
Header

Specifies whether the legend header is shown.

Selected – hides the header.

Cleared – shows the header.

Display Selected
Row Bold

Specifies whether to display the text of the selected data source in boldface.

Selected – selected data source is bold.

Cleared – selected data source is in plain text.

Show Icons

Specifies whether to display a small image of each pen in the chart.

Selected – icons are visible.

Cleared – icons are hidden.