A chart style is a collection of formatting settings for various elements of the chart component. At any given time, only one style can be applied to a chart. However, for certain chart elements, individual formatting can be customized by disabling the style application.

 

 

 

When designing reports with charts, more than 30 built-in styles are available for this component. You can change the Chart component style by:
Selecting the component in the report template and choosing a style using the quick style selection menu on the Home tab of the report designer’s Ribbon panel;
Opening the component editor, navigating to the Styles tab, and selecting the desired style from the list.

 

 

 
For the Chart component, the following can be used:
A predefined style;
A custom style, created in the style designer;
A combined style, where a predefined style is applied first, and then specific elements are customized manually in the Chart component editor.

 

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The key property that determines where the formatting settings for chart elements are taken from is Allow Apply Style. If set to True, the chart element settings will be taken from the assigned style. If set to False, the formatting must be manually defined using properties in the Chart component editor.