Create a Legend Visualization

You create a legend visualization to display a single canvas visualization legend for multiple visualizations, eliminating the need to display duplicated legend information in each visualization.

You create a legend visualization by adding data elements to it, and then you hide the legends in the other remaining visualizations to avoid duplication and improve the appearance of the visualizations.

1. On the Home page, hover over a workbook, click Actions, then select Open.
   
   

   
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2. Click Edit , click Visualize and in the Data panel select Visualizations.
3. Drag and drop a Legend visualization from the Visualizations pane onto the canvas.

   You can place the legend on the canvas in the location most appropriate for your workbook

4. Click Data then drag and drop data elements that are used in the canvas visualizations, and drop them to appropriate sections in the grammar pane.

   For example, in the image, Order Priority is dragged to Color in the Grammar pane, Sales and # of Orders are dragged to values in the Grammar pane, and Quantity Ordered is dragged to Size in the Grammar pane.

   
   

   
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5. To hide the legends from each visualization, select a visualization and click Properties. In the Legend Position row, click Auto and select None. Repeat for each visualization.
6. Click Save.
   
   

   
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