Working with Visualizations

Create a New Visualization

To create a new visualization, click the New visualization button on the toolbar, or select Visualizationthen selectNew from the menu bar.

Manage Visualizations

Delete a Visualization

To delete a visualization, click the Delete visualization button on the visualization, or select Visualizationthen selectDelete from the menu bar to delete the selected visualization.
You can delete all of your visualizations by selecting Viewthen selectDelete All Visualizations.

Duplicate a Visualization

To duplicate a visualization, select Visualizationthen selectDuplicate 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 the Minimize button 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 Viewthen selectMinimize All Visualizations from the menu bar.
To show all visualizations, select Viewthen selectShow All Visualizations from the menu bar.

Maximize a Visualization

To maximize a visualization to fill the entire workspace, click the Maximize button in the visualization that you want to maximize. To return the visualization to its normal size, click the Restore button.

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.
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.

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 Viewthen selectManage Visualizations from the main menu bar.
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 the Add button, or click the Add all button 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 the Remove button, or click the Remove all button 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 the Additional search options button, 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.