Dataplot Properties Explanation

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Bar	Description
VISIBILITY	In the Visibility bar you can select the Parameter in the Parameter tree that will make this your element show up. Per default no path will always make a element show up.
prefix	In the prefix you fill in the path of a parameter. A prefix is mainly useful for editing multiple paths of parameters.
path	This path manipulates the visibility of the element and can be selected from the parameter tree.
channel	If a selected parameter is a array you can select the desired channel of the array here.
expression	With the expression you can manipulate the presentation of the output. For example convert Meters to Inches. The raw parameter is called x.
VALUE
data	Here you can choose your .csv or .json file containing the data for the plot.
xcol	In the xcol you determine the column-index from the .csv or .json file to be shown as the x-axis of the plot. E.g. 0
ycol	In the ycol you determine the column-indices from the .csv or .json file to be used for the values on the y-axis of the plot. E.g. [1,2,3]
xlabel	The text on the x axis can be changed by changing the x label text.
ylabel	The text on the y axis can be changed by changing the y label text.
y min	The minimum Y value is determined here.
y max	The maximum Y value is determined here.
refresh every	Here you select how many times the plot gets refreshed per seconds.
autoscale Y	The auto scale y check box makes it possible to automatically scale the Y axis of the plot.
rangeslider X	The rangeslider x check box makes it possible to hide and show the range slider.
Interpret value as POSIX Timestamp	This ` check box makes it possible to interpret value as POSIX timestamp.
STYLE
title	The title of the Plot can be defined here.
plotstyle	See the documentation of Plotly https://plotly.com/javascript/reference/layout/
plotlayout	See the documentation of Plotly https://plotly.com/javascript/reference/layout/
show legend	The show legend check box makes it possible to turn on or off the legend of the plot.
color	Here you determine the color of your plot line.
POSITION
x	The x position of a element is defined here.
y	The y position of a element is defined here.
z	The z position of a element is defined here.
width	The width of a element is defined here.
height	The height of a element is defined here.