New for Report Specification Schema Version 7.0

Version 7.0 of the Report Specification schema includes new charting functionality. All of the new chart element names are prefaced with "v2_". Many of these elements are updated versions of older chart elements and have the same functionality and name, except for the "v2_" prefix. Reports that contain charts that are authored with legacy chart elements will still run and produce the same results as in the previous release.

The new functionality of the "v2_" elements includes

• a schema that includes a bullet chart, defined by the v2_bulletChart element.

• customization of the legend position with the v2_legendPosition element.

• customization of how text appears in the legend using the attributes on the v2_legend element.

• defining the colors in a chart based on the data values using the v2_pointColorByValue element.

• control of the shape of bubbles in a bubble chart using the changeShapeByCategory attribute on the v2_bubbleChart element.

• control of pie charts, allowing you to customize data labels, pull out pie slices, summarize slices, position pie slices, and customize the appearance of pie charts using the attributes and child elements of the v2_pieChart element.

• customization of axis lines using the v2_axis element and its child elements.