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Harness, Section, and Flow Action formsYou can add a static or interactive chart to a cell on a harness, section, or flow action form.
1. Create and test the interactive chart
Create a summary view rule or report definition and complete the Chart tab to define the chart.
Test the chart.
2. Add the Chart control to a cell.
Click the down-arrow (
) at the right end of the Advanced control group (
) and select the Chart control (
). Drag the control. When the pointer changes shape to indicate that you can drop the layout, release the mouse button.
If the destination cell is not empty, the dropped paragraph replaces the current contents of the cell. Click the magnifying glass icon (
) to display the Cell Properties panel.
3. Complete the Cell Properties panel — Top fields
Complete the top panel.
Your updates to this panel can update the rule form immediately or upon clicking Apply, depending on the Property Panel settings in your Edit preferences. See Setting your preferences. If the panel is pinned(
), the wireframe on the rule form changes immediately to reflect your inputs. If the panel is not pinned(
), click Apply to apply your inputs.
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Description |
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| Property |
Accept the default property .pyTemplateChart. This property name is a placeholder. |
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| Control |
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| Behavior |
Optional. Leave blank if no dynamic form actions to other parts of the form are to occur based on user updates or values for this field. To establish a dynamic form action, click the magnifying glass icon ( Click the help icon ( Client event support is not available for harnesses, sections, or flow actions that use directives. |
Accept the default value 
) to enter parameters for this pseudo Control rule:
Identify the Applies To key part of the summary view rule.
Optional. If the summary view requires parameters, such as for selection criteria, complete this name and value array to supply parameter values. Order is not significant.
4. Complete the Cell Properties panel — General tab
Complete the General tab.
The General tab for a Chart control is identical to the General tab for a Text Input control. See Adding a Text Input control — Complete the Cell Properties Panel — General tab.
5. Complete the Cell properties panel — Advanced tab
Complete the Advanced tab.
The Advanced tab for a Chart control is identical to the Advanced tab for a Text Input control. See Adding a Text Input control — Complete the Cell Properties Panel — Advanced tab.
The pseudo-Control rule Chart supports the configuration described here. As it is not a true control, do not the select this for the Control field on the General tab of a Property form.
For summary view charts only: As an advanced alternative to the approach described here, you can use the chart JSP tag in hand-coded flow action, section, or harness, and disable auto-generation of HTML code. See chart JavaServer Pages tag.