Formatting the rectangles

To format the rectangles in a heat map, follow the steps below:

1. When there is only one group in the heat map, right-click on the heat map and select Format Rectangle from the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Rectangle dialog.

   When there are two or more groups in the heat map, right-click on the heat map, then from the Format Rectangle submenu, select a desired group field to bring up the Format Rectangle dialog for the field.

2. In the Fill tab, specify the fill type: Use Single Color, or Use Single Color with Condition.

   If you select Use Single Color as the fill type,

   • For discrete colors when color by one of the following cases:
     • No field
     • One or more groups
     • One or more groups and one summary

     In the Color section, click the color box and select a color swatch to fill all the rectangles (you can also directly type the hexadecimal value of the desired color in the text box). If the color swatches cannot meet your requirement, click More Colors on the color palette to open the Pick a Color dialog, with which you can set a full range of color, or click More Fill Effects to specify the fill effect in the Fill Effects dialog. Then specify the transparency if required.

     If you want to make the rectangle colors vary, check Vary Colors by Color List, then click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for each rectangle in the Color List dialog.

   • For gradient colors when color by a summary, specify the start color for the minimum value and the end color for the maximum value, by clicking the corresponding color box to select a color or by directly typing the hexadecimal value of the color in the text box.

     To exchange the start color and the end color, check the Reversed option.

     To specify a color for the zero value, check the Color When Zero option and then click the color box to select a color or type a color string in the text box after #.

     To specify a color when the value is null, click the color box to select a color or type a color string in the text box after #.

   If you select Use Single Color with Condition as the fill type, specify the conditions and the color pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding conditional color fill to a chart.

3. In the Separator tab, specify the color, transparency, line style, and thickness of the rectangle separators.
4. In the Behaviors tab (this tab is only available to library components), select a trigger event from the drop-down list in the Events column, then click in the Actions column and click that appears in the text box to open the Web Action List dialog, where you can bind a web action to the rectangles which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the rectangles.

   To add a web behavior line, click , and if a web behavior is not required, click to remove it.

   Click or to adjust the order of the behaviors. Then, when an event that has been bound with more than one action happens, the upper action will be triggered first.

   The web actions you can bind to the rectangles include Filter, Sort, Parameter, Property and SendMessage. For details about these web actions, refer to Applying web actions to a label.

5. When done, click OK to apply the settings and close the dialog.

See also the Format Rectangle dialog for report or library component for detailed explanation about options in the dialog.