Solid gauge - chart type specific customization

Disclaimer: The Gauge template is not fully integrated with the everviz editor, so it's a bit harder to manage than other chart types. Follow the instructions in this chapter to customize a Gauge chart in everviz.

Understanding the gauge

First of all, the gauges divisions are directly connected to the numbers in the spreadsheet. 

In this example, category A appoints to the given value of the chart, which in this case is 80 /100. In the picture above, the value is 90 (i.e. 90/100). The four distinct color fields, each connected to where on the color stop chart the given value belongs. Which color that is connected to the different speeds, can be changed using color stops. 

Let's set the first color stop to 20. That means that the deepest green color stops at the value 20. When the value surpasses 20, the color will transcend from deep green towards a more yellow color at the next stop, according to its value. If the value is closer to 20, the color will appear more green-ish and if it's closer to the next stops value -- 50, the color will appear more yellow-ish. 

Let's say we want the green color to expand past the value 20 and end at the value 40. This would affect the colors in the color grader above the stops. As well, bot categories C and D would now be covered in the same green color, as they both are at a speed that constitutes the green color -- which in this case is 40 or lower. 

An easy way to display this is by using only one value: As the value of category A (80) is between stops 2 and 3, the chart displays a dark orange color. 

If we delete stops 2 and 3, as well as set the value of stop 1 to 100, the whole chart will turn green. 

This can be a great way of displaying progress!

Working with plural values means that your chart will turn out with separate fields inside of the "progress-bar", each connected to a color, depending on which values the color stops are connected to. 

Color stops

Color stops defines at which value a color ends and the next starts. In the case of a value ascending the value 10 it would transcend from a dark bright green and gradually change colors to more of a yellow color as the values get closer and closer to the next stop. 

Think of the color grader as starting at the value 0 and ending at value 100. Where you place stops inside of this, stipulates at which values the colors will gradually change towards another color. 

If you were to delete a stop it would affect the range of colors in the color grader as well as changing the colors of the chart. As well as deleting stops, it is possible to add stops. The number of stops stipulates which colors are available. Ergo, one stop means one color, two stops means two colors and so forth.