Customizing straight table appearance and navigation

Managing accessibility settings

The straight table has several accessibility enhancements, which you can turn on in the properties panel under Appearance > Presentation > Accessibility options. Consider turning both settings on for optimal accessibility.

Use pagination

With the Use pagination setting, change how many rows are displayed in the chart at a time. With pagination, instead of displaying all rows at once, only a certain amount of rows are displayed. Users can use the arrow buttons at the bottom of the table to navigate.

Increased accessibility

With the Increased accessibility setting, enhance the accessibility of the chart with improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support.

This setting is turned off by default in new straight tables. Turning the setting on changes the following:

• Column headers contain a icon to allow dimension searching. With the setting on, this icon is removed to improve accessibility. Users can still search dimensions by clicking column headers or using keyboard shortcuts.

• Cyclic dimensions have a icon in the column header for cycling dimension values. With the setting on, this icon is removed to improve accessibility. Users can still cycle dimension values by clicking column headers or using keyboard shortcuts.

• Columns can be sorted by clicking column headers. With the setting on, columns can be sorted by accessing the options from column headers.

Turning on the hover menu

Under Appearance > General, use the toggle for Show hover menu to choose whether you want the hover menu to display in the visualization.

Showing details

Under Appearance > General, set Show details to Show if you want to allow users to be able to choose to view details, such as descriptions, measures, and dimensions.

Allowing users to view expressions in the chart

Under Appearance > General, set Show expressions to Show if you want to allow users to be able to choose to view expressions.

Using text wrapping

When text in the straight table is too long to be displayed given the provided space, some text is not shown and instead represented with an ellipsis. Under Appearance > Presentation, you can use the settings under Multiline text wrapping to wrap the text over multiple lines in the table. This setting can be controlled individually at the header and cell levels:

• Wrap text in headers (table headers only)

• Wrap text in cells (table cells only)

Customizing representation of null values

You can change how null values are represented for measures in the straight table. Enter static text to be used to replace null values. When you use numeric values, these values are interpreted as numbers rather than text. This allows you to fill in missing calculations with actual values, such as 0.

Do the following:

1. Click Appearance > Presentation in the properties panel.

2. Under Null value text, enter the text that will replace null measure values.

Hiding the column header

You can hide the header at the top of the straight table that displays column titles and allows user to change the sorting. Under Appearance > Presentation, activate the Hide header setting.