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Sheet view

App developers add visualizations and other elements to sheets in an app. App consumers interact with the sheet for data analysis. App developers and app consumers can interact with Insight Advisor to generate visualizations using natural language queries.

Click Sheet under the Analyze tab in the navigation bar to open a sheet.

Develop sheets in edit mode. Interact with sheets in analyze mode. Explore your data with Insight Advisor in Insight Advisor.

Edit

Click Edit to edit a sheet.

Sheet view in edit mode

Sheet view in edit mode.

You can do the following:

  • Click Sheets to add a new sheet, or to navigate to a sheet.

  • Click Assets to open the assets panel. Add assets to your sheet. For example, you can add a visualization to a sheet. See: Assets panel

    For assisted creation of visualizations, click Use assisted explore to use Insight Advisor. See: Creating visualizations with Insight Advisor

  • Click Properties to open the properties panel. Configure the properties for a sheet or visualization. For example, you can add dimensions and measures to a visualization. See: Properties panel

Analyze

Interact with visualizations and data in a sheet.

Sheet view in analyze mode

Sheet view in analyze mode.

You can do the following:

Selection actions
User interface item Action
Selections - History Step back in selections
Selections - step forward Step forward in selections.
Selections - Clear all Clear all selections.
Selection search

Open smart search to search in the entire data set.

For more information, see: Using smart search

Selections - Current Open the selections tool, which is an extension of the selections bar.

Options menu

With the options menu, you can take a snapshot of your chart, change certain chart properties in the exploration menu, or view your chart in full screen mode.

Options menu next to a chart

Options menu for a chart.

You can open the options menu by:

  • Right-clicking on a chart.
  • Clicking the hover menu More.

Menu options will be different depending on:

  • Whether you are editing or analyzing (viewing) charts in an app.
  • The chart type.
  • The privileges that have been assigned to you by your administrator.

Options menu for a chart with hover menu expanded

Options menu when the 'more' icon next to a chart is selected.

The menu looks different if you have touch screen mode enabled on a supported device. You can toggle touch support on and off by clicking or tapping the navigation button (Navigation) and using the toggle for Navigation.

Options

  • Full screen: Expand visualization to full-screen mode.

  • Exploration menu: Change certain visualization properties, without making selections or editing the sheet. See: Visual exploration

  • View data: View the data for a visualization in a table.

  • Share: Share the visualization in different ways, for example as an image, a link, or an embedded object.

  • Create alert: Create an alert for the data in the visualization.

  • Take snapshot or open Snaphot library. See: Collecting insights for stories using snapshots

  • Download: Download the visualization in different formats, such as an image or a data file.

Insight Advisor

Click Insight Advisor to access Insight Advisor Search and Insight Advisor Analysis Types. You can ask a question in the Insights search field to generate visualizations with Insight Advisor Search.

Insight Advisor

Insight Advisor open in a sheet

For more information, see Creating visualizations with Insight Advisor.

Touch gestures in sheet view

Touch gestures
Touch gesture Action
Long-touch and release Open the shortcut menu
Long-touch a visualization Open the options menu
Swipe Scroll lists and visualizations
Pinch Zoom in or out on visualizations
Two-finger tap Select an interval in a list, table or bar chartaxis
Two-finger swipe Pan a scatter plot visualization
Three-finger tap Reset the zoom level of a scatter plot visualization

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