Progress Bar Settings

At runtime, the content area progress bar option displays a percentage value. It displays the value of the value field as a percentage of the value range that you configure using the minimum value and maximum value settings.

Note: The progress bar value is computed as a percentage, so if the minimum and maximum values match each other, then a percentage cannot be calculated. In this case, the progress bar is shown as 0%. (This is true whether the minimum and maximum value fields configured using constants or fields.)

You can configure value range in different ways as shown by the following examples.

Using Constants

Suppose the data value field is Temperature, and you want to show the current temperature as a percentage of a normal temperature range, defined as -35 Celsius to 25 Celsius.

You would define the minimum value as a constant with value -35, and the maximum value as a constant of 35.

Using Fields

Suppose the data value field is NumSeniors, and you want to show the number of senior citizens as a percentage of total population, which is provided in the metric using a value field TotPop.

You would define the minimum value as zero, and the maximum value using the TotPop field.