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Dynamically Creating Plots with Property Controls

There are many times a user may only want to see one specific plot at a given point in time. In this scenario, you can create all the different types of plots a user may want to see and link them from a cover page using bookmarks.

However, it takes a lot of real estate to have all visualizations in a file. One option would be to use Property Controls and expressions to dynamically configure/create the visualization when the user needs it.

Assume the consumer may want to look at a cumulative sum, a 4 period rolling average, or a year-to-date rolling average.

For all these plots the x-axis would be the same, possibly a Date hierarchy for example.

 

We can then create a drop-down list Property Control where the drop down values are set via expression.

Then for each value we can enter the expression we want to appear on the Y-axis as well as a user friendly display name to be used in the property dropdown list. The screen shot below depicts a Cumulative Sum expression being used.

Once you are done adding all the values you want, you then need to attach the property control to the y-axis expression as shown below.

The end result is a drop down list which changes the Bar Chart to display either a Cumulative Sum, 4 period average, or a YTD rolling.

Comments

 

jplee said:

Hi,

This reconfigures an existing plot. How are sets of plots created using properties?  I'd like to show / hide sets of plots on a particular page via a property control.

thanks,

JP

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