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Exploring Your Data with Visual Insight Analyses Report Services Document Analysis Guide
Grouping data on an analysis
When you have a very large set of data in a Visual Insight analysis, it can be
easier to work with that data by grouping it into logical subsets, and viewing
only one of the subsets at a time. For example, a grid in an analysis displays
salary expenditures by Region, Manager, and Employee. You can place
Region in the Page-by area and view the salary expenditures data by
Manager and Employee, one region at a time. All the data from the analysis is
still present, but it is grouped into smaller, more manageable sections.
Once you have added an attribute to the Page-by area, you can click an
attribute element to use to group data, or hover the cursor over an attribute
element in the Page-by area to quickly display the data as it would appear if
the element was selected.
When you group data in an analysis, the grouping is applied to all
visualizations in the analysis.
Steps are below to group and ungroup data, as well as to create an animation
of the grouped data. The animation cycles through a display of the data
grouped by each attribute element in the Page-by area.
Prerequisite
To group data in an analysis, you must have the Web Visual Insight and
Execute Document or Analysis privileges.
All these filtering procedures assume that you are viewing an analysis in
Visual Insight Mode. For instructions, see Running and viewing analyses,
page 151.
To group data in an analysis
1 From the Dataset Objects panel, drag and drop the attribute to group
with to the Page-by area. The elements of the attribute are automatically
displayed in the Page-by area.
If
the Page-by area is not displayed, from the toolbar, click the
Page By icon.
2 Hover the cursor over the name of the attribute in the Page-by area, then
click the arrow icon to the right. A list of options is displayed.
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