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conditionally color data
- 10 years ago
You can look at using the DateAttribute field as a legend entry. You can then use the visual 'Formatting' menu (the paintbrush icon under the Visuals pane) to change the data colors of your legend entries.
- 10 years ago
Only one field is allowed for the legend field well. You may be trying to pack too much information into a single visual. Could you provide a small table visual alongside your current chart listing the dates in context and what their type is? Slicing to e.g. a month or a week would filter that table down. Clicking on a specific date in the existing chart would give you just that date's attributes in the table.
This chart + detail table is an idiom I use pretty frequently. Visuals are exceptional for spotting trends and relative proportions, and can hold an incredible density of data if used properly. At a certain point, though, information density becomes a negative.
This is all very subjective, but I hope these thoughts help you in designing effective reports for your organization. I realize I've not really given a self-contained satisfying answer here, and for that I apologize.
You can look at using the DateAttribute field as a legend entry. You can then use the visual 'Formatting' menu (the paintbrush icon under the Visuals pane) to change the data colors of your legend entries.
- oxbord10 years agoRegular Visitor
Thank you for your answer, it works well but i have another problem now, i already had a dimension attribute (from another dimension i didn't talk about) in the legend entry, it's not possible to had a second one ?
- greggyb10 years agoResident Rockstar
Only one field is allowed for the legend field well. You may be trying to pack too much information into a single visual. Could you provide a small table visual alongside your current chart listing the dates in context and what their type is? Slicing to e.g. a month or a week would filter that table down. Clicking on a specific date in the existing chart would give you just that date's attributes in the table.
This chart + detail table is an idiom I use pretty frequently. Visuals are exceptional for spotting trends and relative proportions, and can hold an incredible density of data if used properly. At a certain point, though, information density becomes a negative.
This is all very subjective, but I hope these thoughts help you in designing effective reports for your organization. I realize I've not really given a self-contained satisfying answer here, and for that I apologize.
- oxbord10 years agoRegular Visitor
Hello Greg,
Thank you for your advice, i finally found something that suits my needs, here's a screenshot:
