About Synchronizing Visualizations in a Canvas

You can specify whether or not to synchronize Visualizations in a canvas.

You use the Synchronize Visualizations setting to specify how the visualizations on your canvas interact. By default, visualizations are linked for automatic synchronization.

When Synchronize Visualizations is set to On, and you add or remove data values from a visualization, this automatically adds or removes the values in corresponding visualizations. When Synchronize Visualizations is set to Off, this unlinks your visualizations and turns off automatic synchronization.

When Synchronize Visualizations is On, then all filters on the filter bar and actions that create filters, such as drill, apply to:

• All the visualizations in a canvas with a single dataset.

• All the visualizations of joined datasets with multiple datasets.

  If a data element from a dataset is specified as a filter but isn't matched with the joined datasets, then the filter only applies to the visualization of the dataset that it was specified for.

When Synchronize Visualizations is set to Off, then analytic actions such as Drill affect only the visualization to which you applied the action.