Charts - other settings

The Others tab contains miscellaneous options like changing the orientation, disabling helper tooltips, setting highlight colors for data labels, etc.

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1. Orientation

You can switch between vertical and horizontal orientations.

Horizontal orientation

2. Title

You can hide the report title by choosing the None option. Choose the Default option to display the standard title.

Use the title on-object interaction menu to customize the title, restore the default title, or browse title presets.

Setting the report title

3. Show title with

The title will indicate the measures that are considered AC, PY, and PL when you select the 'Series label' option from the dropdown. By default, the Show title with option is set to 'None'.

Show title with

4. Lock fields type

Analytics+ allows you to lock measure/dimension configurations. Even when you re-assign measures and dimensions, they will be assigned to the designated data wells. The Lock fields type option is set to By field by default, enabling you to utilize the lock feature in the pivot data window.

Learn more about locking measure assignments.

Learn more about locking dimension assignments.

After assigning dimensions and measures to the various data buckets, you can lock them by clicking the icon.

Lock fields option

Even when you remove measures and dimensions, they will automatically be assigned to designated buckets when they are added back. In the animation, notice how the 2024 Actuals or the Actuals measure are always assigned to the 'Actuals' bucket. Similarly, the year/quarter/month are always assigned to the Axis bucket and not the legend/row/column buckets.

Locking dimensions and measures

When you work with field parameters, you can lock field parameter assignments by choosing the By field parameter option.

Field parameter lock option

This option works on a 1:1 basis. You need to assign one field parameter to one data well and use the lock icon to persist the assignment.

When you change field parameters, they get assigned to the respective buckets in the pivot data window.

5. Persist property

During the course of developing your report, you may add or remove measures or switch measures between data wells(AC/PY/PL/FC). The Persist property option allows you to retain customizations like measure colors, number formatting, data labels, TopN, and series based on measures or data wells.

Persist property

• Measure(Data)

Customizations are tied to specific measures when the Measure(Data) option is chosen. When we remove and add the 2024 Actuals measure back, notice how the chart type, color, data labels, number formatting, and ranking are retained.

Persist property by measure

• Data well

Customizations are tied to the Actual and Comparison buckets (AC/PY/PL/FC fields) in the pivot data window. Notice how the chart type, color, data labels, ranking, etc are retained even when we replace the 2024 Actuals measure with Actuals.

Persist property by data well

6. Native hierarchy expansion

When your axis data is hierarchical, enable this option if you want the hierarchy to be fully expanded on loading the visual.

Native hierarchy expansion enabled

Native hierarchy expansion disabled

7. Hide drilldown icon in reading view

For hierarchical datasets, the Analytics+ drilldown icons will be displayed only in edit view when this option is enabled.

Drilldown icons hidden in reading view

8. Report title

You can set a custom title for your reports when IBCS standards are enforced. The default title is Inforiver Analytics+.

9. Show skip lines

If your reports use the IBCS C04 layout (overlapped column chart in horizontal orientation with IBCS theme), you can enable skip lines to demarcate categories. Analytics+ allows you to specify the interval between categories to render skip lines.

Show skip lines

10. Show variances in the tooltip

Analytics+ provides the flexibility to decide whether or not to display variances in the tooltip. You can choose to display the absolute variance, relative variance, or both.

Variances in tooltip

11. Footer

You can optionally display a footer with the Inforiver logo.

• Show info logo: Enable to toggle to display the logo.

• Enabled: You can display custom hyperlinked text. By default, the link navigates to the Inforiver webpage.

• URL: The website to navigate to by clicking the link.

• Text: Hyperlinked text will be displayed in the footer.

• Font: Set the size and color of the text

Footer

12. Show helper tooltips

When you hover over a toolbar or side pane element, Inforiver displays a tooltip that gives an overview of the functionality. You can disable the toggle if you do not wish to see tooltips.

Show helper tooltips

13. Show warning toasts

Analytics+ displays warning notifications when you change an option that may affect an existing configuration. You can disable the toggle if you do not wish to see warning toast messages.

Warning toasts

14. Show on-object interaction

Inforiver's on-object interaction feature allows you to customize every element of your report, right from the canvas without navigating to the settings panes or using the toolbar. If the on-object interaction menus are inconvenient, you can disable them.

On object interaction

15. Chart slider

Click the arrow icons to switch between various charts that are best-suited to represent the dataset assigned to the Analytics+ visual.

Chart slider to browse charts

Turning off the chart slider toggle will disable the arrow icons that can be used to browse chart types.

Chart slider option

16. Show data label on highlight

When this setting is turned on, the data labels will be displayed on selecting that particular data point in the reading view.

Data label shown on highight

When this setting is turned off data labels are not displayed on selecting the data point.

Data labels not shown

17. Show marker on highlight

Enable this toggle to display data point markers on selecting that particular data point in the reading view. This option is available for charts like line and area which have data point markers.

Show marker on highlight toggle enabled

Markers will not be displayed when this toggle is disabled.

Show marker on highlight toggle enabled

18. Hide advance pivot

The advance pivot window is enabled by default when the canvas size is large. If you prefer the popup dialog window, you can turn on the Hide advance pivot toggle.

Advanced pivot settings

Pop up data management window

19. Highlight color

19.1. Data label

When you select a data point in the reading view, you can highlight the data label with a different color. In the example, the data label color is black but on selecting the data point, the label color is highlighted in red

Data labels highlighted in red

19.2. Bar

When you select data points in a bar chart, you can highlight the selected bars with a custom color. In the example, the bar color is changed to yellow on selecting a data point.

Bar highlight color

20. Line border hover color

Assign a specific color to make each line stand out when hovered over. The corresponding legend category is also highlighted.

Line border hover color

When you have line charts in a trellis, use the Line hover cross highlight option to highlight the measure in all the panels (Individual) or only the particular panel you are analyzing (Combined).

Line hover cross highlight - Combined

Line hover cross highlight - Individual

21. Fade out opacity

When you select a data point, that particular point is highlighted and the other data points are faded out. You can customize the degree of fading using the Fade out opacity option. In the example, we have demonstrated a fade out opacities of 30 and 80.

Fade out opacity

22. Drag selection

Analytics+ offers click-select and drag-select (lasso/reverse lasso/zoom) options to select data points in the reading view. You can choose the selection type when you are in reading mode or set it from the drag selection dropdown. Learn more about selecting data.

Drag selection options

23. Zoom type

You can choose to zoom in on the x-axis, y-axis or both axes when you are in reading mode. If you choose the X option, the drag selection is applied horizontally. When you choose the Y option, drag selection is applied vertically. Choose the XY option to drag-select uniformly in both directions.

X-axis zoom

Y-axis zoom

XY zoom

To restore the chart and reset the zoomed area, click the icon that appears at the top-right corner of the chart.

24. Charts animation

Animating charts can make data visualization more engaging. Each time a chart is rendered in Analytics+, it is accompanied by animation.

Animating charts

25. Overflow color handling type

Analytics+ themes are assigned a specific range of colors.

• IBCS and dark themes - 15 colors

• xViz theme - 49 colors

• White themes- 54 colors

When you have stacked charts, the number of categories may exceed the number of assigned colors. In such cases, you can choose how to handle the extra colors using the Overflow color handling type option.

Overflow color handling

• Module: Consider that you are using an IBCS theme with 15 colors. When the number of categories exceeds 15, the colors are repeated i.e. the 16th category will be assigned the same color as the 1st category and so on.

• Opacity reducer: This option is similar to the Module option, however, the categories after the 15th category will be assigned the same colors with a 10% reduction in opacity. For each set of 15 categories, the opacity is reduced.

• Random: This option does not adhere to a specific theme, colors are randomly assigned to additional categories.

• Blend: The additional categories will be assigned a color that is a blend of the colors in the previous sequence. For instance, the 16th color will a combination of the 1st and 2nd color.

26. Max columns

The fetch mode capability in Analytics+ overcomes the limitation of rendering a maximum of 30k data points - with Analytics+, you can now render a much higher volume of data points.

Instead of fetching all the data in one shot, Analytics+ can fetch and render data incrementally, resulting in faster rendering times. Rendering and data loading happen in parallel, enabling you to start analyzing your data without having to wait for the entire data to get loaded and plotted. The volume of data to be pulled in each fetch is configurable with the Max columns option.

You can define the number of columns, and Analytics+ will automatically adjust the row count to retrieve 30k data points per fetch. For example, a Max columns setting of 1000 will pull 30,000/1000 = 30 rows and 1000 columns.

Max columns limit

27. Show huge data warning

When you try to pass a high-volume dataset to Analytics+ and render a substantial number of data points, Analytics+ will generate a data volume warning pop-up.

Huge volume data warning

The warning popup will not be displayed if the Show huge Data warning toggle is disabled.

28. Performance mode

Line and area charts with high data volume and a large number of data points can be plotted significantly faster with the performance mode option. Enable the toggle from Other settings for faster rendering.

• TopN ranking will be turned off in performance mode.

• Sorting will be set to native sort.

• Scrollbar will be disabled.

• Multi charts(different charts in each trellis panel) will be reset to uniform charts in all panels.

Performance mode