This page describes options that are used in multiple places when you configure widgets on Business Intelligence dashboards.
Specifying Table Text Styles
In tables and chart legends, you can specify options that control the display of text. The options are as follows:
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Color — Specify the color of the text. The following shows an example of the user interface:
To specify a color, optionally choose the name of a color palette from the drop-down list. (For example, the list option Standard corresponds to the color palette shown in the preceding example.) Then click a color in the grid to choose that color.
Or click the magnifying glass icon, which displays a full-range color chooser. Click a color here or use the sliders to specify the red, green, and blue components of your color selection.
To clear the color selection, click the X.
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Background — Specify the color of the background, in the same way as described in the previous item.
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Opacity — Use this option to specify the opacity of the background. The value 1 means 100%.
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Font — Specify the typeface of the text. Select a typeface. To clear the typeface selection, click Default, at the top of the list.
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Font Size — Use the slider to specify the size of the text or type a value into the input box.
To clear the size selection, click the check box.
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Text Style — Specify the style of the text.
Select one or more options. The first three options make the text bold, italic, and underlined, respectively. The Cc option changes the text to capital letters as in the following example:
The S option adds shadows to the text as follows:
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Align — Specify the alignment of the text.
These options make the text left-aligned, centered, and right-aligned, respectively.
Specifying Chart Text Styles
In charts and other graphical elements, you can specify options that control the display of text. The options are as follows:
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Color — Specify the color of the text. For information on specifying this option and other color options, see the Color option in the previous section.
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Stroke — Specify the color of the outline of the characters in the text. The following figure shows an example where Color is blue and Stroke is black:
By default, the system uses the same color for the outline as for the text itself.
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Stroke Width — Use this option to specify the width of the outline. The following shows an example of a medium-width outline:
To clear the setting, click the check box.
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Opacity — Use this option to specify the opacity of the text (which is 100% by default).
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Font, Text Size, Text Style — See Font, Font Size, Text Style in the previous section.