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title: "Charting - Right Click Menu"
description: "Learn more about the right-click menu on Vision's Easy Chart Component"
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# Charting - Right Click Menu

> Learn more about the right-click menu on Vision's Easy Chart Component

When viewed from the client (or the Designer's **Preview Mode** ![](preview.png)) many chart components, such as the **Easy Chart** or **Bar Chart**, enable users to right-click and access a menu with additional features. Explanations of these features are listed below. 

![](intro.png)

### Right Click Menu Functions
Note that many of the behaviors listed below may be overridden by a property on the parent component. For example, the **Easy Chart** provides a way to define the plot background color with the [Easy Chart Customizer](appendix\components\vision-components\charts\easy-chart\easy-chart-customizer.md), so the Background options on the right-click menu would not modify the behavior on the component when the user selects them. 

|Item Name|Description|
|:---|:---|
|Mode|Specifies the functionality of a left-click on the chart. A list of available modes can be found on the [Mode Options](#mode-options) section.|
|Background|Allows the user to change the background color. Available options include **Black** and **White**.|
|Save as...|Provides a Save window that allows the user to save a PNG of the chart locally.|
|Print...|Provides a Print dialog that allows the user to print an image of the chart. This will send the chart to a physical printer. Note: a printer must be installed on the client computer.|
|Zoom In|Allows the user to Zoom in on the chart. There are three possible options:**All axes**: Zooms in on both the Range and Domain.**Domain axis**: Zooms in on just the Domain, or X- axis. Reduces the range of viewable values on the domain (typically a datetime), while leaving the Range axis untouched.**Range axis**: Zooms in on just the Range, or Y-axis. Reduces the range of viewable values (typically numeric), while leaving the Domain axis unmodified. This is helpful when a trend shows very little change over a period of time, as this allows the user to view the trend with increased granularity.|
|Zoom Out|Allows the user to Zoom out on the chart. There are three possible options:**All axes**: Zooms out on both the Range and Domain.**Domain axis**: Zooms out on just the Domain, or X- axis.**Range axis**: Zooms out on just the Range, or Y-axis|
|Auto Range|Automatically updates the range, or **viewable space**, on the chart to incorporate all data points. As mentioned above, many components have properties/customizations that restrict the capability of these (such as the date range on on the Easy Chart).**All axes**: Adjusts the viewable space on both axes.**Domain axis**: Adjusts the viewable space on just the Domain, or X-axis.**Range axis**: Adjusts the viewable space on just the Range, or Y-axis.|
|Reset Axes|Adjusts the Axes back to their initial state.|

### Mode Options 
Below is a description of the various options under the Mode property. 

#### Zoom
![](zoom.png)

* **Zoom in**: Users can left-click and drag on the chart to zoom in or out. Dragging to the right creates a hollow rectangle. When the user releases the mouse button, the viewable space in the chart will zoom in to a rectangle.
* **Zoom out**: Left-click and dragging to the left will not create a rectangle, but releasing the mouse button will zoom back out.

#### Pan
Allows users to **Pan** the chart horizontally or vertically by left-click and dragging. The **Pan** mode may be used after using the Zoom mode: doing so allows panning within the zoomed in view-space.

#### Mark
![](mark.png)

While in **Mark** mode, a left click will target the closest point on the nearest pen, and return the value and timestamp of that point.

#### X-Trace
![](xtrace.png)

Similar to **Mark**, X-Trace will instead show the values of all pens at the selected point in time.