Kuika's Area Chart element offers an effective way to visually showcase your data. This chart type allows you to visualize trends and totals, highlighting your data over time. It is particularly suitable for comparing changes between two or more sets of data, or for showing the accumulation of data over a given time period. The Area Chart element is used in situations where financial reporting, sales trends or other time series data needs to be displayed. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Area Chart element, how to structure your data, and how to customize visual arrangements.

The Area Chart element supports web and mobile applications.

This training content consists of the following topics:

Adding an Area Chart element,
Area Chart element properties,
Authorization,
Visibility,
Editability,
Customize the interface design with Style Panel.

Add Area Chart Element

After logging in to the Kuika platform, open the project you will work on from the “Apps” screen.

In the “UI Design” (1) module, drag and drop the Area Chart element (4) under the “Chart” (3) category from the “Elements” (2) panel on the left edge.

You can add the Area Chart element from the Elements panel by drag and drop. If you drag it to an empty space on the screen, it will be added with the Row element. If you drag it into a Column, you will only add an Area Chart element.

Area Chart Element Properties

Located in the Properties panel:

Datasource: Open the Datasources section in the Properties panel. Select Action from here. After selecting Action, you should select which value you want to show from the Data Label For Field section under DataSource.
Legend: Open the Legend section in the Properties panel. You can choose which of the options such as top, bottom, right and left you want the first, second data you selected in the DataSource section to be displayed.
Left Axis: Open the Left Axis section in the Properties panel. This is the area where the values shown on the left (Y axis) are shown/hidden.
Right Axis: Open the Right Axis section in the Properties panel. This is the area where the values shown below (X axis) are shown/hidden.
Begin At Zero: Open the Begin At Zero section in the Properties panel. It allows you to show the smallest data value from the DataSource section as the smallest value in the Chart.
Show Data Labels: Open the Show Data Labels section in the Properties panel. You can then open the Switch to show the data labels in the Area Chart.

Authorization.

You can customize user access with “Anonymous Access” and “All Roles Access” authorization options on the screens and elements of your application. While “Anonymous Access” enables access without any account information query, “All Roles Access” provides access by verifying user account information.

For element level authorization, you can manage the security and user experience of your application by selecting the relevant element and editing the “Authorization” settings from the Properties panel.

Visibility.

It allows you to adjust the visibility of screens or elements. Visibility in Elements allows you to regulate visibility based on a specific state or condition. For each element, you can make it always visible, hidden, or visible and hidden depending on a condition.

Click on the element on the screen.
Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
Click on the “Visibility” field and make one of the following selections according to the needs of your application. Kuika offers Always Visible, Hidden, Sometimes Visible options to control the visibility of the screens in your application.

Always Visible: Ensures that the screens in your app are always visible. ‍
Hidden: Allows hiding screens in your application. ‍
Sometimes Visible: Makes screens in your application conditionally visible.

Editability

Allows you to make elements editable.

Enabled: Selecting this option makes the element editable.
Disabled: In this case, the element cannot be edited.
Sometimes Enabled: This option means that the element is sometimes editable and sometimes not, depending on certain conditions.

Customize the İnterface Design with Style Panel

By customizing your elements with the Styling Panel, you can create unique and impressive user interfaces in your web and mobile applications.

The sections defined below vary depending on the element.

Layout‍: Here you can make visual adjustments such as sizing, alignment and padding of elements. These settings also affect the layout of other elements within the element. Properties include Size, Min Size and Align; however, some elements may not support the Display property.
Text: The element's text properties can be edited here through font family, style, color, size, spacing and other options. This section supports all Text related adjustments.
Fill: You can use the Fill setting to customize the element's background with color or images.
Border: You can give your elements a more aesthetic look by adding borders and adjusting the corner radii.
Shadow: You can add a shadow effect to elements used in web applications to give a sense of depth. However, the shadow feature may not be supported as some elements are not suitable for mobile applications.