Trend Icon

Who can use this feature?

All Squirrel365 plans include the Trend Icon component.

For more details, see our pricing comparison matrix.

Squirrel 1.12 introduced a “Quick Set-up” tab on many property panels. The properties described on this page are available on the “All Properties” tab of the property panel. For more details on “Quick Set-Up” properties see this article

The Trend Icon is a visualization component that can be used to immediately display an upward, downward, or steady trend based on a value above or below 0.

Select Trend Icon from the Data Visualization category of the component library. Move the mouse over the canvas and click to add a trend icon to your project:

Trend Icon Properties

The Trend Icon properties consist of GENERAL, STYLING, and DYNAMIC VISIBILITY drawers. This guide will not describe the dynamic visibility properties as these are generic to each visible component; a separate guide and tutorial on dynamic visibility can be found here.

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GENERAL

• Trend value - an input property that is bound to the spreadsheet. This is the value that determines the trend icon displayed, ranging from Negative (below zero), Zero and Positive (above 0)

• Icon set - a dropdown to select the icon set that is displayed on the component.

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STYLING

These properties apply to the styling options for the Trend Icon

• Positive

  • Positive Icon Color - an input property to set the Positive Icon color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Positive Icon color

  • Positive Background - an input property to set the Positive Icon background color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Positive Icon opacity color

• Zero

  • Zero Icon Color - an input property to set the Zero Icon color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Zero Icon color

  • Zero Background - an input property to set the Zero Icon background color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Zero Icon opacity color

• Negative

  • Negative Icon Color - an input property to set the Negative Icon color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Negative Icon color

  • Negative Background - an input property to set the Negative Icon background color

    • Opacity - an input to adjust the opacity of the Negative Icon opacity color

If the 'face' or 'check/exclamation/cross' options are selected, then Corner properties are added to each of the styling sub-drawers.

• Corners – This property determines the corner radius of the Rectangle component border. Use the slider to amend this property, or type a numerical value into the property field.

  • Individual Corners - selected this property to apply different radii to each of the component's corners. Each of these individual inputs can be manually edited or bound to the spreadsheet.