Graph Setting Associations

If you use Graph setup dialog to change the style, font, or background settings of a graph, that change applies to the Mid or any uncertainty view of that variable. But, if you set the line style for a PDF view of a variable, it will usually not apply to the CDF view of that variable. If you change the axis range of a scale, it will still apply to that dimension if you pivot the graph or swap horizontal and vertical scales.

More generally, each graph setting has an association that control which graph views it applies to. Usually, Analytica just does what you expect, so you don't have to think about these associations. But, occasionally you may need to understand their effects, especially when saving defaults for a model or defining a template.

There are four types of association, controlling what types of graph a change to a graph setting applies to:

Global Associations: Appearance settings, such as colors, style, font, and background are global -- meaning that a change to one graph for a variable will apply to all graph views of that variable; clicking "Set default" button, will apply these settings to all graphs in the model that use defaults for those settings.

Result Associations: These settings apply only to the specific graph, and no other graphs, even if you click "Set Default".

Dimension Associations: Settings in the Axis Ranges tab, including range, reverse order, categorical, or log scale, apply to the specified dimension or index. When you pivot the graph, or swap horizontal and vertical, they still apply to that dimension. If you click "Set default" after changing settings for a scale that is an index variable, those settings will become the default for that index in all graphs that use that index.

Uncertainty view Associations: The application of Line style and related settings on the Chart Type tab is different for categorical and continuous graphs, and may differ by uncertainty view (PDF, CDF, Confidence Bands, etc.).

Whether the X-axis dimension is categorical or continuous determines whether a graph is considered categorical or continuous. (If SwapXY is on, the Y-axis that determines this). Separate line-styles are maintained for the categorical case and the continuous case. So, if you pivot a graph, causing the X-axis to change from a continuous dimension to a categorical one, the graph settings can swap from a line-graph to a bar graph, for example. (Only the line-style depends on the categorical / continuous distinction).

Settings in this category are associated with a view mode. Mid, Mean and Bands all share the same association, so a setting for Mid will transfer to a graph of Mean. Separate settings exist for stats view, continuous PDF, continuous CDF, discrete prob mass, discrete cum prob, and sample. There is a separate line style for the continuous and categorical case for each of these views. But all other settings in this category, such as Area fill, change only with the view mode. (so you can't have a filled line for continuous mean and unfilled line for categorical mean, but you could have an unfilled line for mean and a filled line for PDF).

Finally, when a line style is set to Bar, the graph is required to be categorical. A flag indicates whether the continuous style setting has been set to bar, and if so, a continuous X-axis is forced to categorical when the graph is rendered.

Graph Settings and their Association Type

Internally, these graph settings are stored in attributes, whose identifier starts with "Att_", or Graph settings, starting with "Graph_". This table shows their name, association type, and notes explaining them.

Description	Stored as	Sys or Att Name	Association Type	Notes
Graph Template
Graph Template Identifier	Attribute	Att_graphTemplate	Global
Line Style Settings:
Line Style	Attribute	Att_ContLineStyle & Att_CatLineStyle 0 = dot 1 = line only 4 = symbol only 5 = line & symbol 6 = step 9 = bar	View	Attribute used depends on whether x-axis is categorical or continuous
Stacked Bar flag	Attribute	Att_StackedBar	View
Stacked lines flag	Attribute	Att_stacked_lines	View
Area fill flag	Attribute	Att_AreaFill	View
Relative Proportion Flag (not yet implemented)	Attribute	Att_relProportion	View
Bar Overlap Percent	Attribute	Att_barOverlap	View
Symmetric Colors flag (not implemented)	Attribute	Att_symmetric_colors	Key
Transparency for fills	Sys var	Graph_fillTransparency	Global	Scale of 0 to 255
Bar Shape	Sys Var	Graph_barShape	View
3D Effects flag	Sys Var	Graph_3DEffects	Global
Line Thickness	Sys Var	Graph_LineThickness	Global
Use Separate Color / Symbol Keys	SysVar	Graph_SymbolKey	Global
Enable Symbol Size Role	Sys Var	Graph_SymbolSizeKey	Global
Symbol Size	Sys Var	symbolSize	Global	For fixed symbol size
Min Symbol Size	Sys Var	Graph_minSymbolSize	Global	For variable symbol size
Max Symbol Size	Sys Var	Graph_maxSymbolSize	Global	For variable symbol size
Axis Ranges:
Dimension range settings (for Index values)	Attribute	Att_graphIndexRange	Dimension	For case when Va1 has self-index, used for the self-index. ver, cat,auto, includezero, log, reverse, incs, min, max where:  ver : Must be 1 (version)  cat : Categorical flag (1=force categorical interp), opt.  auto : Full autoscale flag  includezero : force 0 to be in range flag  log : log scaling flag  reverse : reverse order flag  incs : Number of increments  min : minimum value for manually scaled axis  max : maximum value for manually scaled axis  catPos: 1=The preceeding «min», «max» are the position of categorical values. 0=They are the actual value (usually a real number).
Dimension range settings (for non-index values)	Attribute	Att_graphValueRange	Dimension	Axis settings for value dimensions. When a variable has a self-index, both its index and its value may be separately used in graphing roles, so this attribute has the settings for the value, whereas Att_graphIndexRange has the axis settings for the self-index. The field here are the same as for Att_graphIndexRange. In addition, multiple value settings may appear, separated by a bar (|) character. After the first, each successive settings is first preceeded by a number and a colon, followed by the same fields as in Att_graphIndexRange. The number corresponds to a position in the Att_GraphSetupSlices attribute. These multiple settings are used to store the axis ranges for comparison slices in an XY-plot, so that if you are plotting Va1[J='x'] vs Va1[J='z'], the axis ranges for x can tracked separately from the axis ranges for z. The very first field (before the first bar) is not preceded by a number and colon, and is used for the main result when not a comparison slice (including the case where it is sliced to do index slicers other than the comparison index).
Result slices	Attribute	Att_graphSetupSlices	View	A list of slices that have, or may have, axis settings in Att_graphValueRange. It is a bracketed list, here the first entry is the number of slots per item as is usually 3. (Although this could vary by Analytica release due to enhancements). When this is a 3, the next 3 entries are the first item, with components «idv», «ind» and «posv». «idv» is the id that appears before the colon in Att_GraphSetupSlices. «ind» is the comparison index that this applies to, which can be either a global index indentifier or Sys_LocalIndex('name') for a local index. «posv» is the 1-based slice number along the comparison index.
Use Categorical	Attribute	Att_forceCategorical	View	Forces categorical X-axis.
Style Settings:
Frame Style	Sys Var	Frame 0 = None 1 = Bottom Left 2 = All solid 3 = All dashed	Global
Frame Color	Sys var	Graph_frameColor	Global
Grid Style	Sys Var	Grid 0 = None 1 = Dots 2 = Pluses 3 = Lines 4 = Dots	Global
Grid Color	Sys Var	Graph_gridColor	Global
Tick locations	Sys Var	Ticks	Global
Tick direction	Sys Var	Graph_tickDir	Global	0 = outward, 1 = inward, 2 = both.
Key Position	Sys Var	ShowKey 0 = None 1 = Bottom 2 = Right 3 = Left	Global
Outline key flag	Sys Var	Graph_OutlineKey	Global
Font:
Axis title font	Sys Var	Graph_axisTitleFont	Global
Axis title color	Sys Var	Graph_axisTitleColor	Global
Axis label font	Sys Var	Graph_axisLabelFont	Global
Axis label color	Sys Var	Graph_axisLabelColor	Global
Key title font	Sys Var	Graph_keyTitleFont	Global
Key title color	Sys Var	Graph_keyTextColor	Global
Key label font	Sys Var	Graph_keyFont	Global
Key label color	Sys Var	Graph_keyLabelColor	Global
Vertical Label Rotation	Sys Var	Graph_VLabelRotation	Global
Horizontal Label Rotation	Sys Var	Graph_HLabelRotation	Global
Patterns:
Page fill	Sys Var	Graph_PageBrush	Global
Plot Area Fill	Sys Var	Graph_plotAreaBrush	Global
Key Area Fill	Sys Var	Graph_keyAreaBrush	Global
Key Sequences:
Symbol sequence	Sys Var	Graph_SymbolSeq	Global	Order of symbols used in keys
Color sequence	Sys Var	Graph_ColorSeq	Global	List of colors used for curves
Line-dash sequence (not implemented)	Sys Var	Graph_LineDashSeq	Global
Fill-effects sequence (not implemented)	Sys Var	Graph_FillEffectsSeq	Global
Excel Graph:
External graphing engine (Excel Chart)	Sys var	GraphTool	Global	Disabled for now.
Role/Pivot state:
X-Axis role	Attribute	Att_xRole	Global
Y-Axis role	Attribute	Att_yRole	Global
Color role	Attribute	Att_colorRole	Global
Symbol shape role	Attribute	Att_symbolRole	Global
Symbol size role	Attribute	Att_symbolSizeRole	Global
Origin role	Attribute	Att_originRole	Global
Other free indexes (not implemented)	Attribute	Att_freeIndexes	View	For scatter only plots.
Coordinate Index	Attribute	Att_coordinateIndex	Result	Contains identifier of index
Exogenous Values	Attribute	Att_exogenousValues	Result	List of expressions

The following system variables are used to hold graph settings for special cases:

• Graph_Primary_Valdim
• Graph_Stats_Valdim
• Graph_PDF_Valdim
• Graph_KDE_Valdim
• Graph_Prob_Valdim
• Graph_CDF_Valdim
• Graph_CntExcd_Valdim
• Graph_DisExcd_Valdim
• Graph_Cumprob_Valdim

See Also

• Graph Style Templates