Overview of Display Rules

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:
  • The Display Rules tab in the right pane enables you to populate intervals, add intervals, or add color-mapped values for the report object that 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.
  • The Shared Rules tab in the left pane 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 edit or delete an existing shared display rule. These rules are shared across multiple gauges and can be created at any time.
    Tip
    The Shared Rules tab is not displayed by default. To display the tab, click the Down Arrow button after the last tab name, and select Shared Rules.
Display rules can accept parameters. For more information, see Working with Parameters in Reports.
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.
Here are some key points about color-mapped display rules:
  • Color-mapped display rules are not allowed if there are multiple overlays.
  • Color-mapped values for a report object can be applied only to category data items.
  • Color-mapped values cannot be applied to date or datetime data items.
  • Color-mapped display rules are not applied if there are two measures.
  • If a color-mapped display rule is applied to one measure and you add a second measure, the display rule is removed.
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:
  • heat maps (which are imported from the explorer)
  • band plots (which are created in the graph builder)
  • step plots (which are created in the graph builder)
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Last updated: January 8, 2019