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
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Follow the instructions in Creating and editing conditional formatting specifications
to create or edit a conditional formatting specification.
- 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.
- In the Style will be changed to section, select A
specified value for a Threshold or Range of rule basis, and click
Edit.
- Choose whether to define a threshold, range, or specific value:
Option | Description |
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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. |
- 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.
- Optional:
Specify that the values you entered are included in the range or threshold by
selecting the Inclusive checkboxes.
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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.
- Click OK to finish defining the rule.