Editing charts on the Analyzer tab

Seagate Crystal Reports provides a third tab, the Analyzer tab, specifically for advanced charting. Use this tab to organize your charts for more efficient analysis.

To launch the Analyzer tab

1. On the Design or Preview tab, right-click the chart to bring up the shortcut menu.
2. On the shortcut menu, click Chart Analyzer.

   Seagate Crystal Reports opens the Analyzer tab.

When viewing a chart on the Analyzer tab, you can perform the following operations by using the commands on the shortcut menu:

• zoom in and out on bar and line charts
• save the current template to a file
• apply a new template to the chart
• change the template specifications of the chart
• change the chart titles
• change the numeric axis grids and scales of the chart
• perform any additional formatting operations specific to the chart type
• auto-arrange the appearance of the chart.

Many of the operations listed here can be found in the Advanced Chart Settings menu on the Design, Preview, and Analyzer tabs. If you select an option from this menu on either the Design or Preview tab, your changes are applied to all instances of the chart on the report. Or, if you select an Advanced Chart Settings option on the Analyzer tab, you set the properties of an individual instance of the chart independently from the rest of the report.

With the Analyzer tab, up to two chart objects can be viewed simultaneously. In this case, the Analyzer tab becomes a split-screen tab, with each chart appearing in a separate section. To resize a section, move the cursor over the section boundary until the cursor becomes a Section Sizing cursor, and then drag the boundary line to expand or reduce the size of the section, as needed.

The Analyzer tab can also be used to work with chart objects that have been placed within a subreport. The program opens a separate Analyzer tab for each subreport that contains a chart object you are analyzing. You can view up to two chart objects from the same subreport simultaneously in the Analyzer tab.

Note:    Changes performed in the Analyzer tab are applied to the currently selected chart or charts. However, you can apply changes to all instances of that chart or charts by selecting the Apply Changes option. You can have two charts selected in the analyzer at one time. When you try to select a third chart and bring it into the analyzer, you will be asked to discard one of the previously selected charts.