Animation Style

This function enables you to add animation to your charts. The properties described here are also accessible via the Chart Designer > Animation tab (go to Animation for more information).

Note: You must have the Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe installed on your pc for this function to work. You can download the Flash Player from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/.

Note: Animation will only work on web-enabled reports. If the report is exported to to Excel, PowerPoint, Word or another application, the animated charts will be exported as pictures and the animation will cease to function.

Click the Animation Style button to open the parameter box.

Click on the properties in the figure below for further details, and the tabs to go to the appropriate pages.

Figure 1 - The Animation Style properties

Check the Enable Animation box to enable the function and access the remaining properties.

• Animation Start Time – the time delay in seconds from when the chart is opened until the animation commences.
• Animation Duration – the time taken in seconds for the animation to complete.
• Repeat Animation – check to repeat the animation.
• Repeat Delay – the time delay between the end of one animation and the start of the next.
• Animation Theme – click the down-arrow to open a drop-down list of the available themes, and select one from the list. A theme must be selected. If None is shown, then the chart will not be animated. The options are:

• None – no animation.
• Growing Together – uses a combination of growing and fading animation types. Fading is used for markers, data point labels, axis labels, titles and legend items. All other elements use growing animation.
• Fading – uses only the fading effect for all chart elements. Data points are drawn one by one.
• Growing and fading – similar to the GrowingTogether theme but differs in that all chart elements may be animated at the same time. This theme also uses a repeat flag for data points which causes a flashing effect.
• Growing one by one – uses one-by-one drawing for all elements. This theme is a combination of growing and fading animation types.
• Moving from top – uses Moving Animation for data points. All data points move and grow from point (50, 0) in relative coordinates.