Align Visualizations Using Canvas Grid Guidelines

You can help to control the alignment of visualizations in a canvas using grid guideline settings when the canvas Layout property is set to Freeform.

You can use these settings to make it easier to align visualizations using canvas grid guideline settings.

  1. On the Home page, hover over a workbook, click Actions (Actions menu ellipsis icon), then select Open.
  2. Click Toggle Grid Guidelines to display grid guidelines.
    Use to show or hide the grid guidelines.

  3. Click Layout Options.
    Use to select layout options.

  4. Click Set Grid Size and enter the distance in pixels between the grid guidelines.
    Set the spacing between the layout grid guidelines in pixels.

  5. Click and drag visualizations into the positions that you require them to be in on the canvas.
  6. Click Snap to Grid, and Realign with Grid to automatically realign all of the visualizations in the canvas with their nearest grid guideline.
    Realign with Grid becomes active when you select Snap to Grid, and you previously realigned visualizations away from the grid guidelines.