Creating Content


Video: How to Use Auto Linking to Connect Your Data Hierarchies

Auto-linking allows you to dynamically link many charts and other content to a single chart, based on their common sort (BY) fields and parameters referenced in any filters. This saves you a lot of time and effort creating and maintaining drilldowns in your charts.
Auto Linking enables you to dynamically access a vast amount of information from a single chart, resulting in a library of interconnected, referable content.

Using the Options Toolbar in Insight

The Options toolbar is located in the upper-right corner of the Insight interface. These options control your interactions with your data, including options such as pivoting and filtering. You can also change your chart type using the Chart Picker option.

Reference: Options Toolbar Icons

The following section describes the icons that display on the Options toolbar.

Using the Options Toolbar in Insight

The Options toolbar is located in the upper-right corner of the Insight interface. These options control your interactions with your data, including options such as pivoting and filtering. You can also change your chart type using the Chart Picker option.

Reference: Options Toolbar Icons

The following section describes the icons that display on the Options toolbar.

Changing Summary Operators for a Field in Insight

When working with measure fields, you can change the summary operators for the field from Summary (default) to Average, Maximum, or Minimum. You can also change a Count field to Count Distinct, using a similar menu selection.

When you make a selection, the axis of the relevant measure updates in the chart, as shown in the following image.

Options for changing the Summary field are shown in the following image.

Changing Summary Operators for a Field in Insight

When working with measure fields, you can change the summary operators for the field from Summary (default) to Average, Maximum, or Minimum. You can also change a Count field to Count Distinct, using a similar menu selection.

When you make a selection, the axis of the relevant measure updates in the chart, as shown in the following image.

Options for changing the Summary field are shown in the following image.

Working With Charts in Insight

With Insight, you can choose individual fields for the buckets that you add. Whether you added fields into the buckets before running Insight or left them empty, creating a chart in Insight is streamlined to allow you to easily create a dynamic chart in real time. It also provides you with the flexibility of interactive comparison as you change your data selections rapidly and adjust the options for display.

You can use the default vertical bar chart or you can specify a different chart type using the Chart Picker in the Options toolbar.

Working With Charts in Insight

With Insight, you can choose individual fields for the buckets that you add. Whether you added fields into the Query pane before running Insight or you added fields to the existing buckets (or buckets that you add), creating a chart in Insight is streamlined to allow you to easily create a dynamic chart in real time. It also provides you with the flexibility of interactive comparison as you change your data selections rapidly and adjust the options for display.