Note on number formatting and number scaling with Vantage vCharts
Posted by Mark Mallany on Thu, May 13, 2010
Hi everyone,
Often in vCharts you will want to format your numbers. Personally, I have often found that limiting the # of decimals makes a big time change in the ease at which a chart or gauge is interpreted.
Today I will give you a little run through on how to set up scaling in your charts. By default Fusion Charts does not include Billions 'B' (ex $100.0 B ) in their scaling, so lets add that in.
There are three properties that you need to modify:
- Change 'Number Scale Value' to 1000,1000,1000 ( Fusion Charts defaults this to 1000,1000)
- Change 'Number Scals Unit' to 'B,M,K' (Fusion Charts defaults this to M,K)
A quick demo :
And thats it folks, we are good to go. Now all of your Billion values can be nicely formatted.