Radar/Polar Chart

A Radar/Polar chart is a graphical method for displaying multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart using three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point.

How to configure the table data to Radar/Polar chart?

Radar/Polar chart needs minimum of 1 value element and 1 Column element to showcase the data. The Chart can be configured by drag and drop series in to the Value section and variables in to the Column section.

Follow the below steps to configure the data to the Radar/Polar chart.

1. Drag and drop the Radar/Polar chart widget into a canvas and resize into your required size.

2. Click the Data Source button in the configuration panel.

3. Click the CREATE NEW button to launch a new connection from the connection type panel.

4. In the connection type panel, click any one (Here, the Excel Connection type is selected for demonstration) of the listed connection type button shown.

5. In the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel, fill the connection type and related details. Click the Connect button.

6. Drag and drop your preferred table or view from the left pane from the data design view, click the Save button.

7. Click the Properties button in the configuration panel, property pane opens. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA tab.

8. The ASSIGN DATA tab will be opened with available measures and dimensions from the connected data source

You can add the required data from Measures and Dimensions into required field.

Adding Value

You can drag and drop the Measures field into the Value section.

You can add maximum upto six series into the Value field.

Click the Settings option to change the name by using the Rename option and required summary type from the available summary types shown in Settings.

Filtering data

You can filter the data to be displayed in chart by using the filter. For more details, refer to the filter.

Formatting data

You can format the data to be displayed in the chart by using format option. For more details, refer measure format

Removing fields

To remove the added value fields click highlighted button.

Adding Column

You can add one value into the Column field. It can be either Dimension or Measure.

Renaming fields

The configured field names can be edited by using the Rename option provided in the settings menu.

Sorting data

You can Sort the dimension data using Sort option under Settings menu list. To apply sorting for the data, refer Sort.

Filtering data

You can apply filters by selecting filters option in settings. For more details, refer filter.

Now Radar/Polar Chart will be rendered like as below

How to format Radar/Polar chart?

You can format the Radar/Polar chart for better illustration of the view that you require, through the settings available in Properties tab.

To format Radar/Polar chart follow these steps:

1. Drag and drop the Radar/Polar chart into a canvas and resize it to your required size.

2. Configure the data into the Radar/Polar chart.

3. Focus on the Radar/Polar chart and click on the widget settings icon.

The property window will be opened.

You can see the list of properties available for the widget with default value.

General Settings

Name

This allows you to change the title for the Radar/Polar chart widget.

Subtitle

This allows you to add the subtitle for the Radar/Polar chart widget.

Description

This allows you to add description for the Radar/Polar chart widget.

Basic Settings

Show Tooltip

This option allows you to toggle the visibility of tooltip in the radar polar chart.

Enable Animation

It animates the measure values when you toggle the Enable Animation.

Show Marker

This allows you to enable or disable the marker in the Radar or Polar chart.

NOTE: Marker will not appear for the Scatter chart type in the Radar/Polar widget.

Show Value Label

This allows you to toggle the visibility of the value labels in the Radar/Polar chart.

Draw Type

This allows you to change the draw type of the widget. By default, the draw type is Polar.

Chart Type

This allows you to switch from the current chart type to another chart type. Area chart is the default Chart type in the radar polar chart. The other chart types are Line, Spline, Area and Scatter.

Legend Settings

This section allows you to customize the legend in the Radar/Polar Chart

Show Legend

A Legend is a text used to describe the data plotted. This allows you to toggle the visibility of legend in Radar/Polar chart

Legend Position

This allows you to change the legend text position by selecting through combo box. By default the legend position is bottom.

Legend Shape

This allows you change the shape of the legend.

Circle

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend in a Circle.

Series Type

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend in Series.

Custom Legend

You can customize the legend text through the Custom Legend Settings dialog. This dialog will show the legend text list as labels at left and corresponding text area at right to add the formatted text to display instead.

Axis

This section allows you to customize the axis settings in Radar/Polar chart.

Show Category Axis

This allows you to toggle the visibility of the category axis in the Radar/Polar chart.

Primary Value Axis

This allows you to toggle the visibility of the primary value axis in the Radar/Polar chart.

Axis Range Settings

This allows you to manually set the Minimum, Maximum and Interval values of primary value axis through the Axis Range Settings dialog.

It will reflect in the primary value axis of the Radar/Polar chart.

Grid Line

This section allows you to toggle the visibility of gridlines in the Radar/Polar chart.

Primary Value Axis

This allows you to enable or disable the Primary Value Axis gridlines for the Radar/Polar chart.

Category Axis

This allows you to enable or disable the Category Axis gridlines for the Radar/Polar chart.

Series Palette

This allows you to customize the Radar/Polar chart series color through Series Palette section.

This section shows, list of series’ labels on the left-hand side and corresponding series color on the right-hand side. By clicking on the colored square, color picker will be opened. In that dialog you can choose a color or you can also change the series color by changing the corresponding Hexadecimal value in the right-hand side.

Filter

Act as Master Widget

This allows you to define the Radar/Polar chart widget as a master widget so that its filter action can be made to listen by other widgets in the dashboard.

Ignore Filter Actions

This allows you to define Radar/Polar chart widget to ignore responding to the filter actions applied by other widgets in the dashboard.

Hierarchical filter

Using this option, you can enable or disable the hierarchical top N filtering. While applying the Top N filter with multiple dimension columns, the data returned can be customized based on whether the filtering needs to be done as flat or based on the hierarchy of dimension columns added.

When the Hierarchical Filter option is enabled, the Top N will be applied for each individual column separately based on the number set for each column.

Link

You can enable linking and configure to navigate to a general URL with or without parameters. For more details, refer Linking.

Container Appearance

This sections allows you to customize the Container Appearance for the radar or polar chart widget.

Title Alignment

This allows you to handle the alignment of widget title to either left, center, or right.

Title Color

This allows you to apply the text color to the widget title.

Title Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the title will be adjusted automatically based on the screen resolution.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Title Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 44.

Subtitle Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the subtitle will be adjusted automatically based on the screen resolution.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Subtitle Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 32.

Auto Padding

On enabling Auto Padding, the padding of the widget container will be adjusted automatically if the size of the widget varies.

Padding

This allows you to customize the padding of the widget container if the Auto Padding is disabled. Value can be between 0 and 25.

Show Border

This allows you to toggle the visibility of the border surrounding the widget.

Corner Radius

This allows you to apply the specified radius to the widget corners if the Show Border is enabled. Value can be between 0 and 10.

Show Background Image

This allows you to set the background image for the radar or polar chart widget.

Background Color

This allows you to set the background color to the radar or polar chart widget.

Transparency

This property allows you to specifies the transparency for the background color.

Show Shadow

This allows you to toggle the visibility of the shadow surrounding the widget.

Container actions

This section allows you to customize the Container actions for the radar or polar chart widget.

Show Header

This allows you to enable or disable the widget title of the radar or polar chart.

Allow Maximize View

This allows you to enable or disable the maximized mode of the radar or polar chart widget. The visibility of the maximize icon in the widget header will be defined based on the setting in the viewer.

Allow CSV Export

This allows you to enable or disable the CSV export option for the radar or polar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to CSV format in the viewer.

Allow Excel Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Excel export option for the radar or polar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to (.xlsx or .xls) format in the viewer.

Allow Image Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Image export option for the radar or polar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to image format (.jpg), (.png), or (.bmp) in the viewer.

Allow PDF Export

This allows you to enable or disable the PDF export option for the radar or polar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to pdf format in the viewer.

Enable Comments

This allows you to enable or disable comment for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to this link.

Allow View Underlying Data

This allows you to visualize the raw data associated with a widget at runtime.

To learn more about viewing the underlying widget data, refer to the view data documentation.

Pin widget

This allows you to pin the widget.

Responsive Behavior

We hide the widget elements based on the size of the widget for better readability.

When the chart has been placed with less than 6 row and less than 7 columns axis labels, legends will be hidden.