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Introduction
The Create and Modify Charts command can create new charts or modify existing charts in folders with schema type Charts. The default name of such a folder is 2. Charts.
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The Create and Modify Chart menu
The content of the menu
The upper part of the menu contains the project name and the name of the active Charts folder.
Next to the text there is a Show Chart properties button. When clicking this button the existing charts in the folder are listed in a panel.
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The Execute button will execute the selected method.
The OK button will save the parameters in the menu and close the menu.
The Cancel button will close the menu without saving the parameters.
Example of chart frame types: Single Chart, Matrix of Charts and Charts along Line.
The parameters for the Create Single Chart tab
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When clicking the Execute button, the command will create a folder of type Chart with the specified chart name in the 2. Charts folder.
A Frame data object will then be created in the folder.
The coordinates and the size of the chart will be saved in the chart's properties panel.
Note: If the chart already exists, the function will not do any actions.
The parameters for the Create Matrix of Charts tab
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When clicking the Execute button, the command will create charts folders with the generated chart names in the 2. Charts folder.
A Frame data object will then be created in the folder.
The coordinates and the size of the chart will be saved in the chart's properties panel.
Note: If the chart already exists, the function will not do any actions.
The parameters for the Create Charts along Line tab
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When clicking the Execute button, the command will modify the chart in the folder with the specified name.
If the name is modified, the folder will be renamed.
The Frame data object will be updated.
The coordinates and the size of the chart will be saved in the chart's properties panel.
The parameters for the Miscellaneous tab
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In input field in the Import chart definitions from file part, the ascii file containing chart definitions is specified. By clicking the button browse button the file can be browsed from the file system on the computer. The record on the file can contain the following information:
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Blank characters in the chart name is not allowdallowed.
The Name can be omitted, then the name of the chart willl be Chart- followed by the sequence number for the chart definition in the ascii file.
If Name is omitted, then also Rotation can be omitted.
Blank records in the file, or records contaning wrong type of information will be skipped.
The records can be mixed with 6, 5 or 4 values according to the specifications above.
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A warning message will appear before the ddlete delete operation is performed.