Specifying How Visualizations Interact with One Another

You can specify how visualizations interact with each other. Such interactions often involve master-detail relationships.

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

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• When Synchronize Visualizations is on (checked):

  All filters and actions that produce filters (such as Drill, Keep Selected, Remove Selected) are applied to all visualizations on the canvas. For example, if you have a canvas with multiple visualizations and you drill in one of the visualizations, a corresponding filter is added to the filter bar and it affects all visualizations on the canvas.

• When Synchronize Visualizations is off (unchecked):

  • The analytic actions such as Drill or Keep Selected affect only the visualization to which you applied the action. In this mode, the filters are displayed in a small filter bar above each visualization.

  • There is an additional option, Use as Master, that is available from all visualizations’ context menu. If Use as Master is turned on for a given visualization, then that one becomes the master visualization for the canvas. This means that selecting data in the master applies a filter to all other visualizations on the canvas.

    
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Note:

There can be zero or one master visualization per canvas.

When a visualization is set as the master, a circled blue M displays before its name.

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