Concepts

Tasks

Creating a Legend for a Chart

A customized legend can be defined and included with any APM chart. You can determine the font colors, sizes, and location of the legend.

All legends that have been defined for a chart can be viewed on its Configuration Dialog, Appearance tab, Chart tab, Legend tab.

This topic describes how to create a legend for a chart.

To Create a Legend for a Chart

1.	Open the table configuration that includes the chart for which you want to create a legend.

2.	On the Appearance tab, View as area, ensure that Chart is selected. In the Chart tab, select the Legend tab.

3.	Click New. The Chart Legend Properties dialog appears. For example:

4.	Enter a name for the legend.

5.	Enter the legend title to appear on the chart.

6.	Select a font and color for the legend text.

7.	Select the direction for the legend. Your options are “Bottom to top”, “Left to right”, “Right to left”, or “Top to bottom”.

8.	Select the background color for the legend. You can select the system/theme default or a specific color.

9.	In the Position area, either:

•	Select Auto Position and then the horizontal and vertical alignment

or

•	Clear Auto Position and then enter your own pixel positions for the top, left, height, and width of the legend

10.	When you are finished, click Close. The legend is added to the tab.