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The Map, Table and Spine Chart have been configured to only allow the

selection of one single area whereas none of the entries in the Comparison

Table can be selected

In the Spine Chart the horizontal bars show the values of the associate

‘percentage of vote’ using a range between 0 and 100.

The ‘Party’ column has been defined to show a small circle in the colour of

the party together with the party name. The code in the ‘Name’ column is

by default:

symbol(symbolValue:party,textValue:party)

Please refer to section ‘I.2. Area Profile – Spine Chart’ for information on

how to define these symbols in the Spine Chart.

In the Election Results (HTML Edition), instead of showing small circles

with the party colours for each candidate in the Spine Chart, the

horizontal bars themselves are coloured according to the value of the

‘party’ associate. The property for this is called ‘Use Data For Bar Colour’

and its value has to match exactly the name of the party associate. The

colours for the parties have to be defined using the Symbol properties of

the Spine Chart.

If you do not wish to colour the bars differently according to the party of

the candidate, simply delete the value of the ‘Use Data For Bar Colour’

property. The property ‘Bar Colour’ will then set the colour for all bars.

In the ‘Data Columns’ section of the Spine Chart Properties the column

labelled ‘Percentage of Vote’ (which is the column containing the

horizontal bars) has ‘election’ in the ‘Name’ column. Compared to the

column name ‘profile’ of the IA6 Area Profile – Spine Chart configuration

the name ‘election’ omits the scale labels in the column header.

Additionally to the above differences between the IA6 Area Profile - Spine

Chart configuration and the Election Results template there are some

Spine Chart properties not included in the Election template as they do

not apply considering the require data structure. Therefore it is not

possible to create an Election results configuration out of the IA6 Area

Profile – Spine Chart configuration like it is the case for the Flash

templates.