After selecting a chart layout, you can use the Advanced Options settings to further customise how the chart is displayed.
The following advanced options are available:
Compact
Number of Decimal Places
Horizontal and Vertical Spacing
The examples below show how each option affects a chart using the Merged Lines layout.
Compact
When enabled, Compact staggers the boxes within each row to reduce the overall width of the chart.
The image below shows a chart with the Compact option turned off.
The image below shows the same chart with Compact option enabled.
Number of Decimal Places
Controls how many decimal places are displayed in ownership percentages, both on the chart lines and within the chart boxes.
Default number of decimal places
The image below shows a chart using the default decimal place setting for ownership percentages.
The image below shows ownership percentages after the Number of Decimal Places option has been changed to 2:
Horizontal and Vertical Spacing
Controls the amount of space between chart boxes, measured in pixels. Increasing the value adds more space between boxes, while decreasing it moves boxes closer together.
The image below shows a chart with the default Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing values of 30 pixels applied.
The image below shows a chart using a value of 100 for both the Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing settings.
Please note: The Horizontal Spacing cannot be adjusted if the Compact option is enabled.
Adjust a Layout's Advanced Options
In this example, we'll adjust the Advanced Options for the layout of a Subsidiary chart for Global Solutions Inc.. We'll keep the default Merged Lines layout, while making the following changes:
Enable Compact to reduce the overall width of the chart.
Set Number of Decimal Places to 2 to display ownership percentages with two decimal places.
Change Vertical Spacing to 20 to reduce the amount of space between each level of the chart.
The image below shows the chart before these changes are applied.
1. Navigate to the chart you want to modify, then select Layout from the left-hand toolbar.
2. If required, select the Compact checkbox to enable the Compact option.
3. Select the number of decimal places to display from the Number of Decimal Places dropdown. In this example, we'll select 2.
4. Adjust the spacing between chart boxes using the Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing sliders.
In this example, we'll keep Horizontal Spacing at the default value of 30 and change Vertical Spacing to 20 to reduce the space between each level of the chart.
5. Close the Layout panel to view the changes applied to the chart.
Updated chart with modified Advanced Options
The image below shows the Global Solutions Inc. chart after enabling Compact, setting Number of Decimal Places to 2, and reducing Vertical Spacing to 20.
The image below shows the original Global Solutions Inc. chart before any Advanced Options were modified.
Please note: If at any point you wish to reset the Number of Decimal Places, Horizontal Spacing, and Vertical Spacing back to their default values, navigate to the Layout panel and click Reset Chart.
