Heat Map Properties – Y-axis


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Option

Description

Columns

Specifies the column or hierarchy to be displayed on the Y-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 horizontal gridlines should be visible.

   Reverse scale

Reverses the current sort order so that the lowest value is displayed at the top 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

 

      Left

Select this option to place the Y-axis scale labels on the left-hand side of the heat map.

      Right

Select this option to place the Y-axis scale labels on the right-hand side of the heat map.

   Label Rendering...

[Only available when the selected column only can be categorical. For example, if the selected column is a string column or a binary column.]

Opens the Label Rendering dialog where you can change the rendering method of the axis labels from text to images in applicable cases.

See also:

Heat Map Properties

How to Use the Heat Map

What is a Heat Map?