Format Histogram dialog - Row tab

Select this check box to display a legend, or key, to the left of the selected histogram row, or clear the check box to display the histogram row without a legend.

Specifying whether to display a legend

Select this check box to display a grid that shows the numerical value of each slice in the histogram under the selected row, or clear the check box to display the row without a data grid.

If you are displaying a data grid, you can specify whether the values from individual graphs are included on it using the Include in data-grid check box on the Graphs tab of the Histogram Report Properties dialog.

Specifying whether to display numerical values underneath the histogram

Select this check box to display explanatory text to the left of the y-axis, showing which graphs are included in the selected row, or clear the check box to exclude these labels.

Specifying whether to display axis labels

You can apply percentage likelihoods to projects in order to indicate the probability of each project actually going ahead. If you have applied percentage likelihoods to projects, select this check box to indicate that percentage likelihoods have been applied to the selected row, or clear the check box to omit this notification.

If you apply percentage likelihoods to a histogram, the effort, quantity, cost and income of the affected projects are adjusted accordingly in the histogram - so if a project is 50% likely to go ahead, its values in the histogram will be reduced by 50%; if you do not, the affected projects are graphed as if they were definitely going ahead. You specify whether percentage likelihood is applied to histogram reports using the Apply % likelihood check box on the Report tab of the Histogram Report Properties dialog.

Specifying whether to indicate if percentage likelihoods have been applied to the histogram report

Select a background colour to apply to the selected row, if required.

Applying a background colour to the selected row

Specify the format of the major horizontal ruling lines that are displayed in the selected row.

Formatting the ruling lines used in the selected row

Specify the format of the minor horizontal ruling lines that are displayed in the selected row.

Formatting the ruling lines used in the selected row

Select this check box if you want to specify a fixed range to the y-axis of the selected row. Limiting the y-axis in this way often results in a neater histogram when larger figures are involved. For example, if the values in a histogram go up to 100,000, you could limit the y-axis range from 0 to 100, in which case the histogram values would be described as 'x 1000' in the axis and legend.

Specify the fixed range (which must include zero) in the fields to the right of the check box.

When you limit the y-axis, a suitable scale multiplier is chosen automatically for you if you click the Automatic radio button against the Scale multiplier field on the Graphs tab of the Histogram Report Properties dialog - for example, 'x 1000' or 'x 100'. However, you can select a fixed scale multiplier for each graph if you wish, by clicking the Fixed radio button on the Graphs tab of that dialog.

Specifying a fixed range to the y-axis

Select this check box if you want the values in the selected row to span across non-working periods such as weekends, or clear the check box if you want the values to return to zero during non-working periods.

Specifying how to graph non-working periods

If you are displaying values for more than one resource or cost centre in the selected row and you are not using the resource appearance, select this check box to display different shades of the selected colour for each resource or cost centre, making the graphs more readable, or clear the check box to use the same colour for all resources in each graph.

Specifying how multiple resources or cost centres are graphed

Specify the way in which you want the graphs to be stacked in the selected row. In order to display graphs stacked on top of one another, you must also select the Allow stacking check box on the Graphs tab of the Histogram Report Properties dialog.

Specifying the way in which graphs are stacked

If you are displaying values for more than one resource or cost centre in the selected row, the data grid at the bottom of the row normally displays a value for each resource or cost centre. Select this check box to sum these values into a single value, representing all resources or cost centres.

Specifying the way in which values in the data grid are displayed in stacked histograms