Working with Visualizations :: SAS(R) Visual Analytics 6.2: User's Guide

Create a New Visualization

To create a new visualization, click

on the toolbar, or select Visualization

New from the menu bar.

Manage Visualizations

Delete a Visualization

To delete a visualization, click the Delete visualization

button on the visualization, or select Visualization

Delete from the menu bar to delete the selected visualization.

You can delete all of your visualizations by selecting View

Delete All Visualizations.

Duplicate a Visualization

To duplicate a visualization, select Visualization

Duplicate from the main menu, or select the Options

drop-down list from the visualization toolbar, and then select Duplicate.

The new visualization is named “Copy of visualization-name”. You can enter a new name on the Properties tab.

Show and Minimize Visualizations

To minimize a visualization, click

in the visualization that you want to minimize. The visualization appears in the dock pane at the bottom of the workspace.

To restore a visualization, click the name of the visualization in the dock pane.

You can select which visualizations are visible by using the Manage Visualizations window.

To minimize all visualizations, select View

Minimize All Visualizations from the menu bar.

To show all visualizations, select View

Show All Visualizations from the menu bar.

Maximize a Visualization

To maximize a visualization to fill the entire workspace, click

in the visualization that you want to maximize. To return the visualization to its normal size, click Restore

.

Arrange the Visualizations in the Workspace

Move the Position of a Visualization

To move a visualization, drag and drop the title bar of the visualization on the location where you want to place the visualization.

When you drag and drop a visualization onto another visualization, the placement of the visualization is determined by the edge that is closest to the drop point.

Suppose your workspace contains two visualizations named “A” and “B”. If you drag A to the left edge of B, then A is placed to the left of B. If you drag A to the bottom edge of B, then A is placed below B.

Example Layout with Four Visualizations shows an example layout with four visualizations.

Example Layout with Four Visualizations

Example Layout After Moving 4 to the Right Edge of 1 shows the effect of moving Visualization 4 to the right edge of Visualization 1.

Example Layout After Moving 4 to the Right Edge of 1

When your workspace contains visualizations in multiple rows, if you drag and drop a visualization onto the bottom edge or top edge of a visualization, then the target visualization and the moved visualization split the space that was previously occupied by the target visualization.

Example Layout After Moving 4 to the Bottom Edge of 1 shows the effect of moving a visualization to the bottom edge of another visualization.

Example Layout After Moving 4 to the Bottom Edge of 1

Resize a Visualization

To resize a visualization in your workspace, drag the resizing tab resize tab

at the bottom edge or the right edge of the visualization that you want to resize.

Using the Manage Visualizations Window

The Manage Visualizations window enables you to manage all of your visualizations together. Each visualization is represented by a thumbnail image or by an icon of the visualization type if the visualization has not been displayed in the current session.

To open the Manage Visualizations window, select View

Manage Visualizations from the main menu bar.

The Manage Visualizations Window

The Manage Visualizations window enables you to perform the following tasks:

Task	Action
Add visualizations to the selection list. (Restore visualizations.)	Select a visualization from the Available list, and then click , or click to add all of the available visualizations.
Remove visualizations from the selection list. (Minimize visualizations.)	Select a visualization from the Selected list, and then click , or click to remove all of the visualizations.
Change the order of the selected visualizations.	In the Selected list, drag and drop the visualizations in the order that you want, or select a visualization and click the up and down arrows to move it.
Search the available visualizations.	In the Search field, enter a string to search for. A visualization matches the search if the string appears anywhere in the visualization name. Only the matching visualizations appear in the Available list.
Filter the available visualizations.	Click , and then select your filter parameters. You can filter either on the visualization type or on the data items that are used in each visualization. Only the matching visualizations appear in the Available list.
Rename a visualization.	Right-click on any visualization, and then select Rename. Enter a new name, and then click OK.
Delete a visualization.	Right-click on any visualization, and then select Delete.