Chart Objects

The following shows the most common chart objects as they appear in your report output in IBM® Cognos® Viewer.

a bar chart with the chart elements marked, including titles, data series, categories, axis titles and labels, gridlines, and footer

The following shows the same chart as it appears in the IBM Cognos Report Studio user interface. The Y-axis is selected, and the axis titles are displayed.

an editable bar chart with the following marked: the chart type icon, axes, chart body, axis titles, legend icon, and chart object area

Click chart objects to specify properties

The default charts have more properties that allow you to customize more aspects of the chart than in earlier versions. You can click in different areas of the chart to get access to different properties.

For example, by clicking the axis, you can customize the color, style, weight, and transparency of chart axis lines and specify where to display major and minor gridlines on the chart.