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 Sheets in the assets panel to select and open a sheet.
Develop sheets in edit mode. Interact with sheets in analysis mode. Explore your data with Insight Advisor in Insight Advisor.
Edit
Click Edit to edit a sheet.
Sheet view in edit mode
You can do the following:
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Click Sheets to add a new sheet, or to navigate to a sheet.
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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
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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
Assets panel in edit mode
In edit mode, the assets panel contains:
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Sheets: View and edit sheets in the app.
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Bookmarks: View and edit bookmarks in the app.
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Fields: Add data to visualizations from available fields.
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Master items: Add data to visualizations from available master items.
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Charts: Add visualizations to the sheet.
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Custom objects: Add custom objects to the sheet.
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App navigation links: Add links to build on-demand apps.
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Dynamic views: Connect a base app to a template app to use master visualizations from that app as dynamic charts in your sheets.
Assets panel in edit mode
Analysis
Interact with visualizations and data in a sheet.
Sheet view in analysis mode
You can do the following:
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Click Assets to create and manage assets for exploration of app content. This is a different assets panel than the one you see when you are editing a sheet. For more information about the assets panel in edit mode, see Assets panel in edit mode.
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Make selections in a visualization to explore insights based on selections. See: Exploring with selections
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Create bookmarks based on selections. See: Bookmarking selections
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Search your data. See: Using smart search
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Click Insight Advisor to generate recommendations for visualizations using natural language and simple configuration options. See: Insight Advisor
| User interface item | Action |
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Step back in selections. |
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Step forward in selections. |
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Clear all selections. |
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Open smart search to search in the entire data set. For more information, see: Using smart search |
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Open the selections tool, which is an extension of the selections bar. |
Assets panel in analysis mode
In analysis mode, click Assets to open a panel where you can create and manage the following:
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Sheets: View and navigate sheets in the app. Create and group sheets.
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Bookmarks: View and navigate bookmarks in the app. Create new bookmarks.
To pin the assets panel open in analysis mode, click 
. The assets panel can be resized by clicking and dragging the border of the assets panel.
You can make Sheets or Bookmarks full screen by clicking 
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You can view Sheets as a grid or list. Sheets can also be grouped together. For more information, see Grouping sheets.
Assets panel in analysis mode
Options menu
You can use the options menu to perform actions related to the visualization.
Options menu next to a chart
You can open the options menu by:
- Right-clicking on a chart.
- Clicking the hover menu
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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
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 () and using the toggle for 
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Options
Some of the available actions you might see in the options menu include:
| Option | Sheet modes | Available actions |
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 Full screen |
Edit, analysis | Expand visualization to full-screen mode. |
 Developer |
Edit, analysis | Access the developer options for the visualization. To access this feature, add /options/developer to the URL. |
 Show details |
Analysis |
Show details: See the fields and master items that make up the visualization. You can view their dependencies to see the fields that comprise them and their sources. Details can be turned on and off for visualizations in the visualization properties panel under Appearance > General > Show details. |
 Exploration menu |
Analysis |
Change certain visualization properties, without making selections or editing the sheet. See: Visual exploration |
 View data |
Analysis |
View the data for a visualization in a table. |
 Share |
Analysis | Share the visualization in different ways, for example as an image, a link, or an embedded object. |
 Storytelling snapshots |
Analysis | Manage the storytelling snapshots available for the chart. For example, you can Take snapshot or access the Snapshot library. See: Collecting insights for stories using snapshots |
 Download as... |
Analysis | Download the visualization in different formats, such as an image, PDF, or data file. |
 Add to master items, Unlink visualization |
Edit | Add the visualization as a master visualization so it can be reused by you and other app developers. You can also unlink the chart from an existing master visualization. See: Reusing visualizations with a master visualization |
 Cut,  Copy,  Paste, Paste and replace |
Edit |
Standard actions allowing copying and pasting of visualizations across sheets. |
 Delete |
Edit | Delete the visualization from the sheet. |
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Copy style, Paste style |
Edit | Copy the custom styling for a visualization and paste it onto another visualization. See: Copying and pasting visualization styling |
Download the visualization in different formats, such as an image, PDF, or data file.
Expand visualization to full-screen mode.
View the data for a visualization in a table.
Change certain visualization properties, without making selections or editing the sheet. See: Visual exploration
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
For more information, see Creating visualizations with Insight Advisor.
Touch gestures in sheet view
| Touch gesture | Action |
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| 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 chart axis |
| Two-finger swipe | Pan a scatter plot visualization |
| Three-finger tap | Reset the zoom level of a scatter plot visualization |