Adding a zoom slider

Zoom sliders are used to get a closer look at details in your visualization.

About this task

The line charts below illustrate the use of a zoom slider. The line chart at the top shows sales from Q1 2015 to Q4 2016.

By adding a zoom slider to the line chart, and then adjusting it by dragging its handles, you can look closer at, for example, the quarters in 2016.

Procedure

In the visualization properties panel, click Add.
In the visualization properties dialog or popover you can find the zoom slider settings on the various axis pages.
Select Zoom and choose which axis or axes to show the slider on.
Different visualization types can have access to more or fewer axes than the example shown here.

Results

The zoom sliders are added as specified.

Zoom in to details by dragging the handles of the zoom slider.

You can grab the gray part of the zoom slider and drag the slider to the left/right or up/down to pan horizontally/vertically.

Tip: When the zoom sliders are shown, it is also possible to press the Ctrl+Alt+Shift buttons on the keyboard and click and drag with the mouse around several items. This will automatically zoom to the selected items, without marking them.

Tip: In the installed client, you can also click Show/hide controls on the title bar of a visualization and switch the zoom sliders on or off. (The icons on the title bar are only shown when hovering over the visualization.)