Configure the trend appearance

You can set a number of general options for the trend appearance, including gradients, border and plot area background color, highlights, and colors for the X and Y axes.

To configure the trend appearance

1. In the Industrial Graphic Editor, double-click the Trend Client. The Edit Animations dialog box appears

2. Click Appearance. The trend appearance information appears in the right pane.

   

3. Select Single tag mode to set the trend to single tag mode.

   When you initially create a tag list for a trend, all the tags are included in the display. Setting the trend to single tag mode allows you to exclude all tags but one from appearing in the trend chart, without removing them from the tag list.

   Clear Single tag mode to view multiple tags again in the chart.

4. Click Background color to configure the main color of the background of the plot area. If you are using a gradient fill, this is the starting color for the gradient.

5. Click End color to select the ending color for the gradient. The gradient starts with the main color and fades to the gradient end color.

6. Click Type to specify the starting point for the flow of the gradient. Valid values are LeftRight, TopBottom, Center, DiagonalLeft, DiagonalRight, HorizontalCenter, and VerticalCenter. For example, if you select green as main color, white as the gradient end color, and center as the gradient type, the center of the chart is green and fades to white towards the surrounding edges.

7. Click Border Color to configure the color of the border for the entire chart area.

8. Select Allow highlight pen to highlight the pen. Configure the color and width to be used for pen highlighting.

   Highlight color	Click to select or configure a color for highlighting the pen curve.
   Width	Specify the width (in pixels) of a highlighted curve.

9. In the Grid area, configure the grid options.

   Show horizontal grid	Check to show the horizontal grid.
   Show vertical grid	Check to show the vertical grid.
   Color	Click to select or configure a color.
   Width	The width, in pixels, of the border line.
   Style	The style of the border line.

10. In the X time axis area, configure the properties for the horizontal axis.

    Show horizontal cursor	Check to show the horizontal cursor.
    Cursor 1 color	Click to select or configure the color for time axis cursor 1.
    Width	The width of time axis cursor 1.
    Style	The line style of time axis cursor 1.
    Cursor 2 color	Click to select or configure the color for time axis cursor 2.
    Width	The width of time axis cursor 2.
    Style	The line style of time axis cursor 2.
    Number of values	The number of values that are shown along the time axis. The values are shown at evenly-spaced points along the axis. The number of values remain the same even if you zoom in and out. The valid range is from 2 to 15, with a default of 6.
    Grid lines per value	The number of grid lines that appear between each pen value plotted on the chart. The valid range is from 1 to 20, with a default of 3.
    Label color	The color of the X axis label.

11. In the Y value axis area, configure the properties for the vertical axis.

    Number of values	The number of values that are shown along the value axis. The timestamps are shown at evenly-spaced points along the axis. The number of values remain the same even if you zoom in and out. The valid range is from 2 to 15, with a default of 6.
    Grid lines per value	The number of grid lines appearing between each pen value that is plotted on the chart. The valid range is from 1 to 20, with a default of 2.
    Value axis label	The label of the value axis.

12. Click OK.