Setting styles for a range of values

When you are working with attributes and property types that have values that are chronological or numerical, you can set the style to change based on a specific range. This allows you to emphasize information before, after or between specific values.

About this task

You can use a threshold or range to change the following aspects of style:

  • The visibility of entities and links.
  • The font style of entities and links.
  • The entity or link type of any chart item except labels.
  • The enlargement (icon size) of icons, event frames, and theme lines.
  • The dominant shade color of icons, event frames, and theme lines.
  • The icon frame color or margin size of icons and theme lines.
  • The line width of links, event frames, theme lines, boxes, circles, text blocks, and OLE objects.
  • The line strength of links, event frames, theme lines, boxes, circles, text blocks, and OLE objects.

Procedure

  1. Follow the instructions in Creating and editing conditional formatting specifications to create or edit a conditional formatting specification.
  2. Follow the instructions in Adding rules to a conditional formatting specification to create a rule, and ensure that you have selected an item record property or attribute to base your actions on, and a type of style change that supports lookup table values.
  3. In the Style will be changed to section, select A specified value for a Threshold or Range of rule basis, and click Edit.
  4. Choose whether to define a threshold, range, or specific value:
    OptionDescription
    Above, Below Define a threshold by using a number value.
    After, Before Define a threshold by using a date & time value.
    Equal to Define a specific value.
    Between Define a range.
  5. Enter numbers in the edit boxes for a numeric attribute value. Alternatively use the date and time picker to specify dates and times for a date & time attribute.
  6. Optional: Specify that the values you entered are included in the range or threshold by selecting the Inclusive check boxes.
  7. Select the style change that you want to apply to the chart by selecting an option.
    • Select Shown or Hidden to set Visibility.
    • Select Specified Value and choose a style setting from the list to set Font Style, Enlargement, Icon Frame Margin, Line Width, or Line Strength.
    • Select Specified Value and choose a color to set Shade or Icon Frame Color.
    • Select Specified Value and click Edit to set an entity or link type.
    • Select Leave unchanged if you do not want to change the style of items that match the condition.
  8. Click OK to finish defining the rule.