Display rules include
all types of highlighting of report objects. They provide a flexible
structure to specify conditions. There are several types of display
rules. Display rules enable conditions to be shared across objects,
but not all display rules apply across all report object types.
SAS Visual Analytics
Designer (the designer) provides the following interfaces for display
rules:
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The
Display Rules tab
in the right pane enables you to populate intervals, add intervals,
or add color-mapped values for the report object, which is currently
selected in the canvas. You can use this pane to specify both report-level
or object-level display rules, depending on what you have selected
in the canvas.
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The
Shared Rules tab
enables you to create a new display rule for a gauge, which is used
by other gauges to designate intervals and colors for ranges. You
can also edit or delete an existing shared display rule. These rules
are shared across multiple gauges and can be created at any time.
For list tables and
graphs, you can create display rules that reference a measure that
is not included in the currently displayed report object. This feature
is not available for crosstabs.
Note: Color-mapped display rules
are not allowed if there are two or more overlays of a bar, line,
or time series in graphs that have multiple overlays (for example,
a dual axis bar chart or a custom graph).
There are limitations
to where display rules can be used in the designer. The following
report objects do not support display rules:
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dual axis bar-line charts
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dual axis time series plots
The following report
objects that are imported from SAS Visual Analytics Explorer (the
explorer) or created in SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder (the graph
builder) do not support display rules:
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heat maps (which are imported from
the explorer)
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band plots (which are created in
the graph builder)
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step plots (which are created in
the graph builder)
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schedule charts (which are created
in the graph builder)