Plot Window

The plot window appears after selecting a plot option from the Project Data window. Beyond the functions accessable via the toolbars, you can interact with a plot in the following ways:

Zoom In	Click and drag a box from the upper-left corner to the bottom-right corner to zoom in to a specific area.
Default Zoom	Click and drag diagonally up and to the left to zoom out to the default level, displaying the entire plot.
Select a Point	Click on or near a point of interest to select that point and highlight its series.
Select a Series	Click on the series in the plot legend to select/highlight that series.
Recolor a Series	Double-click a series in the plot legend to recolor that series.
Display the Context Menu	Right-click (Ctrl-Click on Macs) anywhere on the plot.

Toolbar Functions

Properties	Displays the Chart Properties dialog. This dialog can be used to modify several aspects of the chart, including the axis ranges and titles, chart title, and background color.
Save as Image	Saves the chart as a .png image. The Save As dialog contains an option to resize the chart. The default values are the chart's current size. Increase or decrease these values to get the chart size you want. The chart will be scaled to the specified size. This method of resizing is generally preferable to simply resizing the image with an image editing tool, as the plot axes will grow/shrink to fill available space.
Print	Prints the chart
Zoom In	Zooms in to the center of the displayed area.
Zoom Out	Zooms out from the enter of the displayed area.
Default Zoom	Zooms out to the default level, showing the entire plot.
Draw Shapes	Draws a shape at each point on the plot. If no value is specified for a given column, no shape will be drawn there (useful for distinguishing "blank" values).
Show Legend	When pressed, the plot legend will appear underneath the plot.
Show Metadata Popups	When pressed, a popup will appear displaying the metadata for a given column whenever a point in that column is selected. This feature is only available if the current project has metadata associated with it.
Sort	Displays a menu with a number of options for sorting the plot. These options are: `Default`: Displays the columns in the order they appear in the data file. `By <x-axis>`: Sorts the x-axis alphabetically by column name. `By <y-axis>`: Sorts the plot such that the highest y-values appear first. If more than one series is displayed on the current plot, you will be prompted to select which series to sort by. `By Metadata`: Searches the project's metadata for specified values. See the metadata sort page for more information. This feature is only available if the current project has metadata associated with it. `By POs`: Sorts and groups the columns based on Plant Ontology values. The columns can be grouped by PO number or by tissue, and the minimum number of "hits" required to form a group can be specified. This feature is only available if the current project has metadata associated with it, and if the metadata contains Plant Ontology numbers. `Custom`: Sorts the data as specified by the user. See the custom sort page for more information.
Name Length	Adjusts the number of characters displayed in the x-axis labels. If the slider is all the way to the left, no labels will be displayed on the x-axis. If the slider is all the way to the right, complete column names will be used to label the x-axis.
Annotation	The plot can be marked by typing the desired text into this box, then clicking on the desired point in the plot area.

Point Info Panel

At the bottom of the plot window is a panel that displays information about the selected point/series. The features of this panel are:

Series	A drop-down menu which displays all row identifiers for the selected series.
TAIR button	If the selected series contains a locus ID, this will open a browser to the TAIR page for that ID.
Column	Displays the full column name of the selected point.
Y-Value	Displays the y-value of the selected point.
Mark button	Annotates the selected point with the column name and y-value.