You can format a Heat Map visualization, to determine whether you can delete rectangles from the visualization, select the algorithm used to size and position rectangles in the visualization, and so on.
You must have the Web Visual Insight and Execute Document or Analysis privileges.
This procedure assumes that you have already created a Visual Insight analysis that contains the Heat Map visualization you want to format.
Click the name of an analysis to run it, then click the tab of the Heat Map visualization.
Click the Properties
icon . The Properties panel is displayed.
You can enable deleting rectangles from the visualization. If this option is enabled, you will be able to delete rectangles from the visualization by hovering over a rectangle and clicking the x icon. Do one of the following:
To allow rectangles to be deleted from the visualization, select the Delete check box.
To disable deleting rectangles, clear the Delete check box.
You can enable zooming in and out of rectangles in the visualization by clicking them. Do one of the following:
To enable zooming in and out of rectangles in the visualization, select the Zoom check box.
To disable zooming in and out of rectangles in the visualization, clear the Zoom check box.
You can choose whether to display the metric values for each rectangle in the visualization. For example, you add Region, Profit, and Revenue to the widget. The widget displays rectangles for each customer region. You can select the Show metric values check box to display the profit and revenue data for the Mid-Atlantic region in the Mid-Atlantic rectangle, the profit and revenue data for the Northeast region in the Northeast rectangle, and so on. Do one of the following:
To show the metric values, select the Show metric values check box.
To hide the metric values, clear the Show metric values check box.
You can choose whether to label each rectangle with the name of the attribute element it represents. From the Show Labels drop-down list, select one of the following options:
To show the rectangle labels, select On.
To hide the rectangle labels, select Off.
To display the rectangle labels with the size of each label reflecting the size of the rectangle, select Proportional. Rectangles that contain large values will be displayed with larger labels than rectangles that contain small values.
Select one of the following options under Layout:
To size the rectangles in the Heat Map widget to make them as easy to read as possible, select Keep readability, not element order.
To size and position the rectangles to make them as easy to read as possible, while still attempting to display them in the same order in which they appear in the widget's Grid/Graph, select Balance readability and order.
To position the rectangles in the Heat Map widget in the same order in which they appear in the widget's Grid/Graph, select Keep element order, not readability.
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