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title: Chart Options
slug: chart-options
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createdAt: 2025-08-11T11:13:46.000Z
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The **OPTIONS** tab in the chart configuration panel allows customization of a chart's presentation. Different chart types have different options.

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Here are the many options available to you with charts:

| Chart Option                         | What it Does                                                                                                                                                                                               | Available With                                                                                              |
| ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Show Legend**                      | Displays a legend to the right of the chart.                                                                                                                                                               | all bar charts, multi-series line charts, stacked area and 100% area charts, pie and donut charts, heat map |
| **Show X-Axis**                      | Displays the x-axis of the chart.                                                                                                                                                                          | all bar charts, all line charts, all area charts, heat map                                                  |
| **X-Axis Label**                     | Displays text as a label under the x-axis.                                                                                                                                                                 | all bar charts, all line charts, all area charts, heat map                                                  |
| **Show Y-Axis**                      | Displays y-axis of the chart.                                                                                                                                                                              | all bar charts, all line charts, all area charts, heat map                                                  |
| **Y-Axis Label**                     | Displays text as a label to the left of the y-axis                                                                                                                                                         | all bar charts, all line charts, all area charts, heat map                                                  |
| **Show 'Other' Group**               | Shows data items that do not fit on the chart, grouped together under an **Other** item. This option indicates whether to show that item in the chart or not.                                              | all charts                                                                                                  |
| **Auto Scale**                       | Changes the y-axis scale from the minimum value of the measure to the maximum value of the measure.                                                                                                        | line charts, area charts                                                                                    |
| **Show Value Labels**                | Displays labels on pie and donut charts.                                                                                                                                                                   | pie and donut charts                                                                                        |
| **Explode Slices**                   | Displays the radius of the slices of a pie chart proportional to their size.                                                                                                                               | pie charts                                                                                                  |
| **Smooth** or **Line Interpolation** | Uses an algorithm to interpolate a smoothe curve from discrete data points. Sub-options include: Basis, Cardinal, Catmull Rom, Linear, Monotone X, Monotone Y, Natural, Step, Step After, and Step Before. | all line charts, all area charts                                                                            |
| **Bubble**                           | Replaces data points in the chart with bubbles, where the bubble size represents an additional dimension of data.                                                                                          | bubble charts                                                                                               |