Chart Interaction

Version

Application Scenario

To enhance the report interactivity, chart interaction allows you to perform operations such as displaying charts in full screen, zooming in/out, setting monitoring refreshes, adding animations, and exporting charts to images, enabling a better user experience of reports.

The following figure demonstrates the interactions, including performing the monitoring refresh, enabling and disabling the full-screen display, changing the sorting, exporting the chart to an image, and clicking the chart to be redirected to a specific page by hyperlink, respectively.

Function Description

Interaction, a setting item in Special Effect, includes six attributes, as shown in the following figure.

Toolbar

During the frontend preview, a toolbar (set under Special Effect > Interaction) can be displayed in the upper right corner of the chart. The setting items in Toolbar include:

• Sort: If you select Sort, a Sort icon will be displayed on the toolbar, enabling the sorting function. If you deselect Sort, the function is disabled.

• Export Image: If you select Export Image, an Export to image icon will be displayed on the toolbar, enabling you to export charts to images. If you deselect Export Image, the function is disabled.

• Display in Full Screen: If you select Display in Full Screen, a Full screen icon will be displayed on the toolbar, enabling you to view charts in full screen. If you deselect Display in Full Screen, the function is disabled.

• Collapse to Menu: If you select/deselect Collapse to Menu, the toolbar will be collapsed/directly displayed.

For details about rules on the Sort, Export Image, and Display in Full Screen functions, see Chart Toolbar.

Note:

1. If you deselect Sort, Image Export, and Display in Full Screen at the same time, the toolbar will not be displayed.

2. All tools except Sort on the toolbar are not supported on the H5 terminal and the DataAnalyst app.

3. Display in Full Screen is supported on mobile terminals with the FVS plugin of V3.3.0 and later versions.

Animation

You can enable/disable the chart animation effect. Animation Effect is set to On by default.

The two images on the left display the charts without animation effects, while the two images on the right show the charts with animation effects, demonstrating the dynamic drawing process of the chart from zero to one, as shown in the following figure.

Axis

You can reverse the chart axes. Reversal is set to Off by default.

Note:

The Reversal function is supported only in bubble charts, scatter charts, line charts, bar charts, column charts, combination charts, and area charts.

Chart Zoom

The Chart Zoom function supports two zoom methods, namely the widget zoom and pinch-to-zoom. Enable Zoom Widget is deselected by default.

For details about setting methods, see Chart Zooming.

Note:

1. The Chart Zoom function is supported only in bubble charts, scatter charts, line charts, bar charts, column charts, combination charts, area charts, maps, heat maps, drill maps, structure charts, and word clouds.

2. When you set Reversal to On, Enable Zoom Widget is not available for selection.

Monitoring Refresh

You can select/deselect the monitoring refresh. After setting Background Detection to On, you can set Time Interval.

Note:

When you select Cell Data from the drop-down list of Data Source in Data, the chart cannot be automatically refreshed. For line charts, area charts, scatter charts, bubble charts, and point maps, when you set Big Data Mode to On under Style > Series > Big Data, Auto Tooltip is greyed out.

Hyperlink

You can add hyperlinks to charts, and then click the charts to realize the click-to-jump effect.

Note:

1. The hyperlink options in dashboards differ slightly from those in CPT templates. Specifically, an option Current Form Object is added in dashboards.

2. For charts selected in Cell Element, you need to add hyperlinks under Cell Element > Special Effect. You cannot add hyperlinks in the cell where the chart is located, otherwise the chart cannot be previewed.

FVS Chart Special Effect

The Monitor Refresh and Hyperlink functions are removed from Special Effect and moved to Interaction in FineVis visualization dashboards. Additionally, the toolbar cannot be exported.