Heat Map Properties – X-axis


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Option

Description

Columns

Specifies the column or hierarchy to be displayed on the X-axis.

Settings

Opens the Advanced Settings dialog where you can change the scale mode from categorical to continuous and vice versa, as well as changing the category mode to determine which combinations to show.

Range

 

   Min

Not applicable to heat map visualizations. Available for continuous axes only.

   Max

Not applicable to heat map visualizations. Available for continuous axes only.

   Set to current range

Not applicable to heat map visualizations. Available for continuous axes only.

   Include origin

Not applicable to heat map visualizations. Available for continuous axes only.

   Show zoom slider

Shows a zoom slider which you can manually manipulate to view only those cells in the heat map you are interested in.

   Show gridlines

Specifies whether or not vertical gridlines should be visible.

   Reverse scale

Reverses the current sort order so that the lowest value is displayed on the right-hand side of the scale.

Scale labels

 

   Show labels

Specifies whether or not scale labels should be visible.

      Horizontally

Shows scale labels horizontally.

      Vertically

Shows scale labels vertically.

      Max number of labels

Select the check box to specify a maximum number of scale labels to be shown. Limiting the number of labels can improve readability on axis scales with many values.

   Position

 

      Top

Select this option to place the X-axis scale labels on top of the heat map.

      Bottom

Select this option to place the X-axis scale labels at the bottom of the heat map.

See also:

Heat Map Properties

How to Use the Heat Map

What is a Heat Map?