Highlight actions in Visual Analytics offer the advantage of focusing on selected chart segments. Visual Analytics makes the highlighted chart segments, and its data labels prominent while dimming others in the view. You can highlight chart segments from the chart view or color/shape legends.
Contents
- Select Highlight Actions
- Color/Shape Legend Highlight Actions
- Assign Highlight Colors To Palette
- Aggregate Functions
Select Highlight Actions
When you hover the mouse on a chart segment, Visual Analytics outlines that chart segment with a border and summarizes values in a tooltip. You can highlight a chart by clicking on specific chart segments. To highlight multiple segments, click and drag the mouse pointer over them. For highlighting multiple discontinuous segments, hold down the Ctrl/Command key on your keyboard and then click the specific segments. Also, in a multiple charts view, when you highlight a column header, all records for that column in multiple charts are highlighted. Tooltip summarizes the values of highlighted segments by giving information on the following:
- information specific to the highlighted chart segment
- the number of items highlighted
- aggregated measure value of the highlighted chart segment
In a chart view containing multiple charts, when you highlight a segment of a specific chart, Visual Analytics highlights the chart segments in all charts for the highlighted dimension record.
Color/Shape Legend Highlight Actions
You can emphasize selected records in the view via color and shape legends. By choosing records in the color/shape legend, Visual Analytics highlights chart segments associated with the selected records while dimming others. To select multiple records, simply hold down the Ctrl/Command key on your keyboard and click specific records in the legend.
Color Legend
Shape Legend
Table and Highlight table do not support highlight action via Color/Shape legend.
Assign Highlight Colors To Palette
You can assign highlight colors to an existing color theme. Visual Analytics replaces the original colors of the color legend with the highlight colors, and the highlight colors become the new color theme for the legend.
To assign highlight colors to the color palette
- In the Color Legend, click a color.
- Click the arrow on the Color Legend.
- Click Assign Highlight Colors To Palette.
Aggregate Functions
Visual Analytics calculates Count
, Count Num
, CountD
, Avg
, Min
, Max
and Std Dev
functions on the highlighted segments. Initially, Visual Analytics only displays the total sum of the highlighted segments, but you can see more calculations by right-clicking on the aggregate functions displayed at the bottom of the Visual Analytics window and choosing the desired functions.