Most of the text formatting properties for the Vitara grid chart are available in the ‘Appearance’ tab. This tab can be accessed from the ‘Edit’ button. Hover the cursor on the Vitara grid chart, click on the ‘Edit’ button and select the ‘Appearance’ tab.
Vitara grid chart will come in the ‘Fresh’ theme by default. There are three other themes available in the Vitara grid chart: fresh, dark, and white. The theme can be modified from the edit property window . Below are the screenshots of accessing the theme.
Grid theme from edit property window:
There is an option to view the layout from the right to left format . You can enable the option if want to see the chart from right to left. Below is a screenshot from the property editor.
See the screenshot below when we enable the right to left layout in the grid chart
Toggle Animation is a property that occurs while sorting the rows, resizing height of rows, filtering the rows and expanding/collapsing a row group. By default, the toggle animation is enabled.
Row Animations
In the Appearance theme you can see a property named Grid Dropzones, where you can Hide/Show the Grouping/ Pivot dropzones in the Grid chart. By default, the drop zones are shown in the grid chart. You can hide the drop zones if needed.
Below is the screenshot of Grid Dropzones property in Appearance tab
Below are the examples shown in two ways;
Grid Dropzones are hidden
Grid Dropzones are shown
In Vitara grid chart rows are classified as; normal grid rows, column header row, and group header rows. Vitara grid chart allows users to modify the height of all the above-mentioned row types. Here you can hide the children count by enabling Hide children count checkbox.
“Grouped Row Height” field will be available if we apply to the group on any of the attributes/ metrics.
In the Appearance property tab, you can see an option hide children count, where you can show/hide the children count of the row groups. By default, the hide children count option will be in enabled state and you cannot see the count of the row groups. This option can be visible only if the grouping is applied in the grid chart.
Below is the screenshot of Hide Children count in the Appearance tab
Below is the example where Hide Children count enabled.
Below is the example where Hide children count is disabled.
Vitara grid chart offers you all the text formatting options; font family, font size, bold, italic, underline, text color, font alignment and background color. Below is the screenshot of theme properties showing header style options and body style options.