Creating a Gauge Style

Gauge Styles define the layout of gauges .- used in a report.

Figure 1 - Example of a gauge

Although one would normally create one gauge style and use that style throughout a report, you can set up as many gauge styles as you wish. Each gauge style can have as many scales and pointers as required.

When you add a gauge to a report page, you must specify which cells in which table the gauge pointers are to represent. The table must therefore exist before you add the gauge to the page.

Note that the gauge styles must be created and set up before you can begin to use the gauges in the report.

Creating a Gauge Style

You create and set up Gauge styles in the Layout and Styles toolbox, in the Styles > Gauge folder.

Note: At least one Gauge style must exist before you can use Gauges in your report.

To create a new Gauge style:

1. Right-click on the Gauge folder and select Insert Style (inside), as shown .below.



Figure 2 - Creating a new Gauge style

A New Gauge Style element is added to the folder.

2. Right-click on the object and select Rename, then give the style a logical name. Note that the name cannot contain spaces.
3. Double-click on the new style or right-click and select Properties to open the Properties page for the style.
4. Set up the properties for the style as required.
5. Save the changes.

Once you have created one style, you can use the Gauges functionality in Reportal (go to Gauges Overview for more information).