ChartAccent

Annotating with ChartAccent

Create and modify an annotation in just three steps

(1) Select an annotation target

• Direct selection: Hover to highlight an annotation target. Click to select and annotate a target; mouse drag, lasso, or click while holding CTRL or SHIFT keys selects multiple targets.
• Indirect selection: Click on a legend item to annotate a series of items that share the same categorical attribute value.
• Direct range selection: Select a point or a region between two points along an axis, and these range selections trigger a default shape annotation.
• Range editing: Adjust the position or range using ChartAccent's range target editor, which allows you to compose basic formulas that can reference the attributes of the dataset. The editor features auto-complete support and includes a set of basic statistical functions including minimum, maximum, mean, and median.
• Indirect range selection: Upon selection of a range target annotation, you can select data items above or below the range. This selection is tightly coupled with the original range target; if the range annotation is adjusted, ChartAccent automatically updates any associated selections of data items above or below the range.

(2) Add additional annotation forms

• Default annotation forms: When you select an annotation target, ChartAccent applies the default annotation form depending on the target. The default annotation for a data item is a black stroke border and a text annotation indicating the item's value, which appears adjacent to the item. Single attribute range targets trigger line or rectangle annotations in response to a click or drag along an axis, respectively.
• Other annotation forms: You can also add text, image, and shape annotations to chart elements; these shape annotations include lines, arrows, ellipses, and rectangles.

(3) Modify the visual properties of the annotation

• Control panel: Use ChartAccent's control panel for modifying the visual properties of annotation. Annotations for sets and series of data items share the same visual properties, so each item in a set or series does not need to be modified individually. Annotation properties include font properties such as type, size, and color, the visibility of a dropline connecting an annotation to its target, as well as stroke and fill properties.