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Controlling the Location of a Free Legend

How to:

When legend position is set to 'free', the xy property controls the location of the legend, where x:0, y:0 is the upper left corner of the draw area.

Syntax: How to Control the Location of a Free Legend 

"legend": {
   "xy": {"x": number, "y": number}
   }

where:

"x": number

Is a number that defines the x/horizontal location of the legend. The default value is 320.

"y": number

Is a number that defines the y/vertical location of the legend. The default value is 80.

Example: Controlling the Location of a Free Legend

The following request generates a free (floating) legend and moves it to x:100 and y:20: 

GRAPH FILE WF_RETAIL_LITE
SUM DISCOUNT_US GROSS_PROFIT_US REVENUE_US MSRP_US
BY PRODUCT_CATEGORY
ON GRAPH PCHOLD FORMAT JSCHART
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH VBAR
ON GRAPH SET STYLE *
INCLUDE=IBFS:/FILE/IBI_HTML_DIR/javaassist/intl/EN/ENIADefault_combine.sty,$
*GRAPH_JS
"legend": {
	"position": "free",
	"xy": {"x": 100, "y": 20}},
"series": [
	{"series": 0, "color": "lightgreen"},
	{"series": 1, "color": "coral"},
	{"series": 2, "color": "lightblue"},
	{"series": 3, "color": "burlywood"}
	]
*END
ENDSTYLE
END

The output is:

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