Spotfire® User Guide

Navigating in a treemap hierarchy

If the hierarchy headers are shown in the treemap, you can navigate to a different hierarchy level by clicking on a header. To go to the top level, click (All). When you are working in the installed client, you can also navigate to a different level by selecting Navigate To from the pop-up menu.

Before you begin

A treemap with at least some hierarchical categories has been created. To navigate using the headers, the hierarchy headers must be shown (specified in the visualization properties, or in the installed client, using the pop-up menu). To use the pop-up menu for navigation, you must use the installed client to view the analysis.

About this task

Navigating downwards in the treemap hierarchy makes it possible to view the details of a level in a branch. The branch level in question fills the entire visualization, and other branches are no longer visible. After viewing the details, you can navigate upwards again.

Procedure

  1. In the treemap, move the cursor over the header of the branch level you want to view the details for.
    The header becomes underlined.
  2. Click the header.
    The branch level in question fills the entire visualization. At the uppermost header of the treemap, the path of the hierarchy levels is shown.
  3. To return to an overview again, that is, navigate upwards in the hierarchy, click the desired level in the hierarchy path.

Example

If you want to take a closer look at the 'New York >> Male' level, click the 'Male' header as shown below:

In the resulting treemap, you can now view more details:

To navigate upwards in the hierarchy, click (All) in the hierarchy path to return to the initial view. Alternatively, you can move only one step up in the hierarchy by clicking 'New York' instead.