New Chart Editor = 3.5

Is is just me or is the new Chart Editor Really bad?!!! Hasn't WYSIWYG been around for about 10 years now? If you can't develop a good tool yourself then go out and buy one. It's taking me forever to change my "upgraded" graphs to match what they looked like originally.
Usually an upgrade means improvements in tools, but this is really bad. If you look at the "Chart Layout" everything is expressed in percents? What is that all about? Does anyone at SAP say "Hey, lets have some people try this out before we pass it on for GA?" Let's lose the microsoft mentality of "Just good enough".
Thanks for listening....
I'd be interested in hearing other opinions...

Hello Ken.
Yes, we all know WYSIWYG very well. It was the basement the ChartDesigner was built on. But we also built two different design modes: A <b>wizard design mode</b> where only the most often used properties can be changed and a <b>full design mode</b> where each single chart object can be changed in any detail.
When developing the ChartDesigner's full design mode several usability aspects were addressed to get a most usable design tool:
a) Ease of use and usage transparency: Get rid of dozens of different dialogs when customizing colors, fills, fonts of different chart objects. (Which the old tool had.) We applied simple chart objects/elements, their properties and values. No magic inside some dialogs which is not transparent to the user and thus not fully controlable.
b) Consistency: Get rid of inconsistent behaviors when using some of those dialogs in context. (The old tool did indeed change something in dialog1 and dialog2 did also revert the setting of dialog1 - not quite intuitive.)
c) Rich visual feedback: Each change will be immediately reflected inside the chart's output - That exactly is what WYSIWYG means. When adding a title text each single character will visualize it's appearance in the chart. Every color change will be immediately reflected on the screen. The same with fonts, font sizes, bitmaps, etc.
Instead of jumping into different dialogs and changing dialog content without simultaneous reflection in the chart output is not a "real" WYSIWYG thing. Such a dialog may support an "Apply" functionality but this isn't nice either to force the user to trigger the reflection on his own.
d) Support of repetitive jobs: When changing colors on a graph object (the background, for example) you can easily copy the background's full set properties within the overview tree into the clipboard. After navigating to another object in the tree (e.g. the legend) a subsequent paste will copy all matching property attributes to the destination element. Additionally to this the ChartDesigner remembers last changed property type, so after navigating to another element the same property type will be automatically refocused.
e) Keyboard Support: The customizing should be easily editable using the keyboard, especially for users that are used to teletype. (To check the difference: edit a screen using MS Access or MS Powerpoint - two different UI design patterns, two different efficiency levels. Creating distinct design with exact positions is easily available inside MS Access while in MS Powerpoint it is just not feasible.)
Yes, the layouting is an area where more work should be invested. We will address this ASAP and we greatly welcome all constructive critics and suggestions for doing this job. Our current layout bases on the assumption of creating charts in various screen resolutions with variable widths and heights. If pixel width and height is not known at design time distinct positions cannot be applied as well. Indeed a pixel based design mode would be valuable and we consider this in future releases.
Kind regards, Oliver Keim, SAP Graphics Team, Software Developer & User Interface Design Expert.

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