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By default, Visual Analytics determines the axis range when you build a chart using a continuous dimension or a measure. You can specify your range and customize the axis appearance. Axis options are available in the Edit Axis dialog box.
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By default, Visual Analytics applies the same range to each row or column based on the maximum data range for all panes in the view.
Independent Axis Range
Visual Analytics sets an independent range for each row or column based on the minimum and the maximum values in the data.
Fixed Axis Range
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- Fix both ends of the axis: Specify the start and end range. Visual Analytics determines the range by specified values.
- Fix one end of the axis: When fixing only one end, choose the other end as uniform or independent.
For example, the following view shows freight by order month. The actual data contains freight from March to September. However, using this option, you can set the axis range that starts from January and ends in December so you can see where the data points are plotted in the complete range. The icon is displayed for OrderDate because that is the range you have fixed.
Include zero
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Change an Axis Range
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- Right-click the axis you want to edit and then choose Edit Axis.
- In the Edit Axis dialog,
- select a range.
- choose whether you want to include zero.
- Click OK.
Axis Appearance
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- primary date dimensions, then you can display tick marks after any interval.
- secondary date dimensions, then you can display tick marks for any date aggregation after any interval.
Reversed Scale
You can reverse the axis scale to run from maximum to minimum.
Title and Location
Depending on the fields in the view, Visual Analytics automatically generates a title and location for the axis. You can change the title and location as desired.
Change an Axis Appearance
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- Right-click the axis you want to edit and then choose Edit Axis.
- In the Edit Axis dialog,
- specify whether you want to keep, hide, or fix tick marks along the axis.
- choose whether you want to reverse the axis.
- specify a custom axis title and its location.
- Click OK.