Working with Visualization Data Ranges and Color Gradients

Support for Customized Data Ranges and Color Gradients

The following visualization types enable you to customize the data range and color gradient:
  • Heat map
  • Geo map (with the Color role assigned)
  • Bubble plot (with continuous data assigned to the Color role)
  • Network diagram (with the Node Color or Link Color role assigned)
  • Word cloud (with the Color role assigned)
  • Treemap (with the Color role assigned)

Specify a Custom Color Gradient

To specify a custom color gradient:
  1. Right-click on the color gradient in the legend, and then select Edit Color Gradient.
  2. From the Edit Color Gradient window, select a color gradient from the Color gradient drop-down list.
  3. Click OK to apply the new color gradient.

Specify a Custom Data Range

To specify a custom data range:
  1. Right-click on the color gradient in the legend, and then select Configure Color Gradient.
  2. From the Select Color Gradient window, deselect Automatically adjust color range to data.
  3. In the Lower field, specify the lower bound for the data range.
  4. If the selected color gradient uses three colors, specify the inflection point of the gradient in the Inflection field, or select Use midpoint to use the midpoint between the lower and upper values as the inflection point. The inflection point is the point for the middle color in a three-color gradient.
  5. In the Upper field, specify the upper bound for the data range.
  6. Click OK to apply the new color gradient.

Share a Color Gradient and Data Range between Visualizations

To share data ranges and color gradients between visualizations, all of the visualizations must support customized data ranges. See Support for Customized Data Ranges and Color Gradients.
To share a data range and color gradient between visualizations:
  1. If the data range has not been customized, then right-click on the legend for the color gradient and data range that you want to share, and then select Lock Data Range.
  2. Right-click on the legend for the color gradient and data range that you want to share, and then select Transfer Configuration. The Select compatible visualizations window appears.
  3. Select the visualizations that you want to share the color gradient and data range with. The visualizations are sorted based on their similarity to the source visualization. Visualizations that use the same data items and visualizations that are the same type are shown at the top of the list.
  4. When you are finished, click OK to apply the color gradient and data range to all of the selected visualizations.

Remove Customized or Shared Color Data Ranges

To remove a customized or shared data range from a visualization, right-click on the legend, and select Remove Custom Data Range.