Choropleth maps allow you to showcase quantitative values encoded using color scale.
Bubble maps allow you to showcase quantitative values encoded using bubble size.
You can change map type as choropleth or bubble by Map Type
property.
To plot a map, a minimum requirement of 1 value and 1 shape are needed. Dropping a dimension will display each region split by each of its item.
The following steps explain the data configuration of a map:
Data Source
in the configuration panel.CREATE NEW
to launch a new connection from the connection-type panel.Microsoft Excel
Connection type is selected for demonstration) of the listed connection type buttons shown.NEW DATA SOURCE
configuration panel, fill the connection type and related details. Click the Connect
.Save
.Map
control icon from the toolbox into the design panel. You can find control by searching in the toolbox.Properties
in the configuration panel to open the property pane. Switch to the ASSIGN DATA
tab.The property panel renders as follows.
click on the Assign Data
.
The data tab will be opened with available measures and dimensions from the connected data source.
Bind columns by dragging the element from the Measures
section to Location Value
.
Drag the elements from the Dimension
section to the Location Name
.
You can use the aggregation function to change the Location Value
of the column.
You can use the Filter
to filter the data. For more details, refer to this filter.
You can format the values by selecting the Format
option. For more details, refer to the measure format.
You can use the Filter(s)
option to filter the data. For more details, refer to this filter.
You can clear the filters by selecting the Clear
options.
You can add more than one value to the Location Name
field. The alert message will be shown to enable the drill-down option. Click Yes
to enable the option.
NOTE: If you click
No
, a single value will be added to theLocation Name
field.
Here is an illustration,
Choropleth map
Bubble map
There is a section Location Tooltip
, which is used to show the values of bound columns while rendering tooltips in a map widget.
Here, this value comes with a tooltip.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
You can render markers with Marker Latitude
and Marker Longitude
data.
Bind columns by dragging the element from the Measures
or Dimension
sections to Marker Latitude
and Marker Longitude
. This section allows both Measures
and Dimensions
. To render markers, both Marker Latitude
and Marker Longitude
sections should have data.
The map renders as follows.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
Marker has an individual tooltip. Bind data to a Marker Tooltip
from the Measures
or Dimensions
sections.
You can use the aggregation function to change the Marker Tooltip
Which column bounds from the Measures
section.
You can filter the data using the Filter
option for both Measure
and Dimensions
field data. For more details, refer to this filter.
You can format the values by selecting the Format
option for Measure
field data. For more details, refer to the measure format.
Here, the marker tooltip shows data while the cursor hovers over the marker.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
You can format the map for a better illustration of the view that you require using the settings available in the Properties
tab.
This allows you to set a title
for the map widget.
This allow you to set a subtitle
for the map widget.
This allows you to set a brief explanation about the map widget.
This option allows you to toggle the visibility of tooltip in a map.
You can choose the map type as choropleth or bubble map.
By setting the map type as Bubble
, the show value label property will be hidden.
A Legend is a text used to describe the plotted data. It allows you to toggle the visibility of legend in the map.
This allows you to enable the visibility of Data Labels
.
This allows you to customize the data labels color.
This option will be enabled only after you enable the Act as Master Widget
option and this allows you to filter the multiple data by enabling the Enable Multi Selection
option.
You can select any type of shape (country or continent or state) from the shape kind drop-down.
You can choose a shape for the selected country or continent or state. The combo box data shows based on the selected values in the shape Kind
.
This section allows you to customize the legend in the map.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of legend in a map. By default, it will be enabled.
It defines the legend type whether layers or marker.
Legend Settings section
.In this case, Legend will be shown based on legend type. In below image, the legend will be shown for Layers by default.For type Markers
, legend will be shown as below.
This option allows you to toggle the visibility of legend title in a map.
This allows you to edit the legend title of a map.
This provides the option to select the legend placement in a map.
If you bind the Marker latitude and Marker Longitude fields, the Marker settings category will be visible.
If you enable this option, the map will be automatically zoomed in to the marker area. Here in the following map widget, the map has a single marker. It will be useful for the filtering process.
By enabling this option, the map will be zoomed in on the area where the marker is placed.
This option allows you to customize the marker shape on the map.
This option allows you to customize the marker color.
This option allows you to customize the marker width
This option allows you to customize the marker height.
This option allows you to customize the map marker.
If you enable the Advanced
option, the color customization window will render as follows:
You can change based on the field and summary type.
You can choose a series of colors with the Color
color picker using multiple condition sets for measure value: greater than, less than, equal to, not equal to, between, not between, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to. For Dimension values: starts with, ends with, contains, not contains, equals, not equals. You can customize the width and height of the marker.
You can customize the shape of the marker with the Marker Shape
option or you can customize the shape as an image with the Marker Image
option. You can also customize the legend name by providing the necessary values inside the condition name and you can also add multiple conditions.
If you click save, the map widget will render like this:
You can enable linking and configure to navigate to a general URL with or without parameters. For more details, refer to the Linking.
This section shows up when the Location Value
and Location Name
fields have values.
You can configure a single color palette whose saturation differs based on the value density.
This allows you to customize the map color with three different types: gradient, rule, or individual. By default, the window renders with gradient type.
If you enable the option Advanced
, the color customization window will render as follows.
You can select based on which field to apply gradient color by the Based On
dropdown. You can change the summary type. You can edit the Low
and the High
value and their colors. By default, the low value takes the minimum value of the map and the high value takes the maximum value of the map. Mid
can be enabled and can change its value and color can be changed. By default, mid-color is disabled.
If you click save, the map will render as follows.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
The default color will apply for the conditions that are not satisfied by the advance color customization.
You can select the rule settings by clicking the Rule
radio button. The color customization window renders as follows.
You can change based on field and summary type as gradient type. The Value Type
can be change with value or percentage.
You can choose a series of colors with the Fill
color picker using multiple condition sets: greater than, less than, equal to, not equal to, between, Not between, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to. You can customize the legend name by providing necessary values inside condition name. You can also add multiple conditions.
If you click save the map widget will render like this.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
You can select the rule settings by clicking the Individual
radio button. The color customization window renders like this.
This type renders with the individual default color for each value of the map. You can change its color with individual color pickers. If you want to reset your changes return to the default color with Reset
.
You can save your changes by clicking Save
. Now, the map renders with changes.
Choropleth map
Bubble map
This allows you to define the map widget as a master widget such that its filter action can be made to listen by other widgets in the dashboard.
Select a shape to filter interaction, the menu will be shown as follows.
If you enable Act as Mater Widget
option, Enable Multi Selection
will be shown.
This option allows using multiple filter interactions.
Consider if you clicked one shape in the map widget already, then click another shape and select the Filtering
option on the menu. Now, the slave widget will respond like this.
It defines the map widget to ignore the filter actions applied to other widgets in the dashboard.
Through this option, you can enable or disable hierarchical the Top N
filtering. While applying the Top N
filter with multiple dimension columns, the data returned can be customized based on whether the filtering needs to be done as flat or based on the hierarchy of added dimension columns.
When the Hierarchical Filter option is enabled, the Top N
will be applied for each individual column separately based on the number set for each column.
This allows you to handle the alignment of widget title to either left, center, or right.
This allows you to apply the text color
to the widget title.
On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the title will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.
Font Size
This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Title Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 44.
On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the subtitle will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.
Font Size
This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Subtitle Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 32.
On enabling Auto Padding, the padding of the widget container will be adjusted automatically if the size of the widget varies.
Padding
This allows you to customize the padding of the widget container if the Auto Padding is disabled. Value can be between 0 and 25.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the border
surrounding the widget.
This allows you to apply the specified radius
to the widget corners if the Show Border is enabled. Value can be between 0 and 10.
This allow you to set the background image for the map widget.
This allows you to set the background color to the map widget.
This property allows you to change the transparency from 0.0 to 1.0.
This allows you to toggle the visibility of the shadow
surrounding the widget.
This allows you to enable or disable the widget title
of the map.
This allows you to enable or disable the maximized mode
of the map widget. The visibility of the maximize icon in the widget header will be defined based on the setting in the viewer.
This allows you to enable or disable the CSV export
option for the map widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to CSV format in the viewer.
This allows you to enable or disable the Excel export
option for the map widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to (.xlsx or .xls)
format in the viewer.
This allows you to enable or disable the Image export
option for the map widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to image format (.jpg), (.png), or (.bmp)
in the viewer.
This allows you to enable or disable the PDF export
option for the map widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to pdf format in the viewer.
This allows you to enable or disable comment
for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to this link.
This allows you to visualize the raw data associated with a widget at runtime.
To learn more about viewing the underlying widget data, refer to the view data documentation.
This allows you to pin the widget.
We hide the widget elements based on the size of the widget for better readability.
When the map has been placed with less than 7 rows map legend will be hidden.