Dashboard Editor: Heat Map

The Heat Map panel contains a list of all the attributes and metrics that are displayed as data in a Heat Map visualization. To display the Heat Map panel while viewing a dashboard, click the Heat Map visualization. From the Show menu, select Edit Visualization.

To add data to the visualization, from the Dataset Objects panel, click and drag an attribute or metric onto the Heat Map panel, so that a green indicator line is displayed in the location to add the attribute or metric to, as follows:

Grouping: To display rectangles in the Heat Map, click and drag at least one attribute onto the Grouping area. For example, if the attribute is Year, a rectangle for each year is displayed in the visualization.

You can drag additional attributes onto the Grouping area to group the rectangles in the visualization into larger areas. For example, the Region attribute contains the element Mid-Atlantic and the State attribute contains the elements New York and New Jersey. If Region is placed above State in the Grouping area, an area called Mid-Atlantic is displayed in the visualization, with the rectangles New York and New Jersey inside. You can add additional attributes to further group the rectangles in the Heat Map.

Size By: To size each rectangle based on the value of a metric, click and drag the metric onto the Size By area. This metric is used to determine the size of each rectangle, with rectangles for larger metric values displayed as larger than rectangles for small metric values.

Color By: To have the rectangles colored automatically based on the elements in an attribute or on the value of a metric, click and drag the attribute or metric onto the Color By area.

Tooltip: To display additional metric values in a tooltip when a user hovers the cursor over a rectangle, click and drag the metrics you want to display onto the Tooltip area.

To remove a report object from the visualization, hover the cursor over the name of the object, then click X. You can remove all the report objects in a visualization at once. To do so, from the toolbar, click the Clear Visualization icon . All report objects in the visualization are removed.