TIBCO Cloud™ Spotfire® User Guide

Creating a trellised visualization

A visualization that is trellised is split into a number of panels, where each panel represents a subset of the data.

About this task

Splitting the data into categories available in a data column is described here. For splitting data per data columns, see Visualizations trellised by data columns.

Before you begin

A visualization that is not in a table format is created.

Procedure

  1. In the Visualization properties, locate the Trellis section.
  2. To split the visualization into one section for each category or combination, select Rows and columns or Panels.
    OptionDescription
    Rows and columns The number of categories in the specified data column or columns controls the number of panels to be shown in each row, column, or page of the trellis visualization.

    For Rows and Columns, one row or column with trellis panels is created for each category in the selected data column.

    For Pages, a new visualization "page" with trellis panels is created for each value in the selected data column. Only one page is visible at a time. Scroll down in the visualization to see the next page.

    Panels

    Splits the visualization without binding any dimensions of the layout to either rows or columns.

    Use Manual layout to specify the number of rows and columns that should be visible in the trellis visualization without scrolling. Clear the check box for an automatic layout.

  3. Select the data column or columns you want to split by.
  4. If you want you can change the category mode to determine which combinations to show. Click the context menu next to the column selector. See Expression language details for more details.
    Note: You can also create a trellised visualization by going to the Data in analysis flyout, clicking the column containing the categories you want to split the visualization by, and drag it on any of the trellis drop targets. The vertical trellis axis corresponds to trellis rows, the horizontal trellis axis to trellis columns.

Results

The visualization is trellised.

Visualization specific trellis settings

When trellising a waterfall chart, you can choose to continue a waterfall over trellis panels.

See Trellising map layers, when working with a map chart.