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.
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.
Data Source
button in the configuration panel.CREATE NEW
button to launch a new connection from the connection type panel.Excel
Connection type is selected for demonstration) of the listed connection type button shown.NEW DATA SOURCE
configuration panel, fill the connection type and related details. Click the Connect
button.Save
button.Properties
button in the configuration panel, property pane opens. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA
tab.ASSIGN DATA
tab will be opened with available measures and dimensions from the connected data sourceYou can add the required data from Measures
and Dimensions
into required field.
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.
You can filter the data to be displayed in chart by using the filter. For more details, refer to the filter.
You can format the data to be displayed in the chart by using format option. For more details, refer measure format
To remove the added value fields click highlighted button.
You can add one value into the Column
field. It can be either Dimension
or Measure.
The configured field names can be edited by using the Rename
option provided in the settings menu.
You can Sort
the dimension data using Sort
option under Settings
menu list. To apply sorting for the data, refer Sort.
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
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:
Drag and drop the Radar/Polar chart into a canvas and resize it to your required size.
Configure the data into the Radar/Polar chart.
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.
This allows you to change the title
for the Radar/Polar chart widget.
This allows you to add the subtitle for the Radar/Polar chart widget.
This allows you to add description for the Radar/Polar chart widget.
This option allows you to toggle the visibility of tooltip in the radar polar chart.
It animates the measure values when you toggle the Enable Animation.
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.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the value labels in the Radar/Polar chart.
This allows you to change the draw type of the widget. By default, the draw type
is Polar.
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.
This section allows you to customize the legend in the Radar/Polar Chart
A Legend is a text used to describe the data plotted. This allows you to toggle the visibility of legend in Radar/Polar chart
This allows you to change the legend text position by selecting through combo box. By default the legend position is bottom.
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.
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.
This section allows you to customize the axis settings in Radar/Polar chart.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the category axis in the Radar/Polar chart.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the primary value axis in the Radar/Polar chart.
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.
This section allows you to toggle the visibility of gridlines in the Radar/Polar chart.
This allows you to enable or disable the Primary Value Axis
gridlines for the Radar/Polar chart.
This allows you to enable or disable the Category Axis
gridlines for the Radar/Polar chart.
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.
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.
This allows you to define Radar/Polar chart widget to ignore responding to the filter actions applied by other widgets in the dashboard.
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.
You can enable linking and configure to navigate to a general URL with or without parameters. For more details, refer Linking.
This sections allows you to customize the Container Appearance
for the radar or polar chart widget.
This allows you to handle the alignment of widget title to either left, center, or right.
This allows you to apply the text color
to the widget title.
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.
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.
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.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the border
surrounding the widget.
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.
This allows you to set the background image for the radar or polar chart widget.
This allows you to set the background color to the radar or polar chart widget.
This property allows you to specifies the transparency for the background color.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the shadow
surrounding the widget.
This section allows you to customize the Container actions
for the radar or polar chart widget.
This allows you to enable or disable the widget title
of the radar or polar chart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This allows you to enable or disable comment
for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to this link.
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.
This allows you to pin the widget.
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.