Pages


You can work with several pages in your analysis if you want to keep information about different topics separated, or if you simply need more space. Navigation between pages can be done using three different modes; titled tabs, step-by-step, or history arrows, as described below.

Tip: It is possible to open the pages in an analysis in different windows of your browser. For details, see Viewing Analysis Pages Simultaneously.    

  1. Click the New Page button on the toolbar, vis_new_page_button.png.

    Comment: You can also select Insert > New Page from the menu.

  2. Note: New pages can only be added in tab mode.

    Comment: When a new page is added, the filtering scheme and organize filters settings are inherited from the active page.

Titled Tabs

In tab mode, pages are indicated by tabs at the top of the screen, and clicking on these tabs switches page. You can also click the small arrow icon to the right of the tabs to open a drop-down list where you can switch between all pages in the analysis. Tab mode is useful when you want to see the titles of each page and choose in what order to look at the pages.

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On each page, you can insert one or many visualizations, and arrange these as you like. Perhaps you want to see both a table and a bar chart next to each other on one page to compare details, and then be able to switch pages to see a pie chart. When in tab mode, you can change the order of your pages using drag-and-drop.

  1. Right-click a page tab.

  2. Select Rename Page... from the pop-up menu.

  3. Type a new name for the page.

  4. Click OK.

Step-by-Step

You can also select to show the pages as numeric links instead of tabs. This is called Step-by-Step mode. Step-by-Step mode is useful when the order of the pages is important and you want to present your analysis as a guided flow.

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The pages are now reached by clicking the numbered links or the Previous/Next links. This is useful if you want to create a guided analysis and share it with other colleagues, and you intend for your colleagues to go through the analysis in a certain order. See also What is a Guided Analysis?

History arrows

If you want to set up your own navigation in the analysis you can select Page Navigation > History Arrows. This will give you a similar look as in the step-by-step case, but all links will be hidden.

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When this option is selected you can keep pages in the analysis that are not shown to web client users at all. All connections between the available pages must then be separately specified using actions in the text area, dynamic items in graphical tables, or KPI tiles. The page history arrows to the left of the page name makes it possible to return to a previously visited page.

  1. Right-click the area containing the tabs or links.

  2. Select Page Navigation > Step-by-Step or Titled Tabs or History Arrows from the pop-up menu.

Visualization area size on a page

You have different options to determine the size of the area where the visualizations are shown to prepare the analysis for different platforms. You can, for example, specify a minimum size of the visualization area on a page to page basis as described below, or lock the area to a certain size for all pages.  

You can specify a minimum width and a minimum height, which the visualization area on a page should not fall below. If the width or height falls below the specified value when the window is resized for any reason, a horizontal or a vertical scroll bar will be added to keep the content viewable.

  1. Right-click the page tab, and select Set Minimum Size.

  2. Note: The dialog is not available, if the visualization area is locked to a specific size. For more information, see Details on Document Properties – General.

  3. In the opened Set Minimum Size dialog, select the Min width check box, and specify the minimum width that you can accept.

  4. Select the Min height check box, and specify the minimum height that you can accept.

  5. Click Close.

  6. Comment: If you want to use the current width and height as the minimum accepted size, click Set to Current Width and Set to Current Height respectively.

Filtering in different pages

You can specify whether or not filtering on one page will affect the visualizations on a different page by using the same or different filtering schemes on the pages. You can also specify which filters will be visible on each page using the Organize Filters dialog. The filtering scheme of new pages is inherited from the active page, but it can be changed by displaying the filtering scheme menu in the Filters panel.

Showing and hiding panels

The visibility of all panels such as the filters panel, and the bookmarks panel is controlled per page. For each page, you can switch on or off the panels of interest by clicking their corresponding toolbar button (and clicking Dock if the panel is in popover mode) or by selecting it from the View menu. The panel visibility of new pages is inherited from the active page.

See also:

Filters Panel Properties

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