The Visual Designer Interface enables you to build visuals and dashboards in Arcadia Enterprise.
The following illustration is a basic Visual Designer
interface for visuals.
Visual Preview pane shows the actual
visual. At this stage, this is the default table type that lists all fields
in the dataset. This pane also shows the editable
Title and Subtitle of
the visual.
Visual Type Catalog menu shows the standard
visual types. You can switch between visual types, such as
tables, areas,
bars, and so on, simply by selecting a
different visual type in this menu. See Visual Type Catalog.
Shelves of the visual specify the fields
and segments that provide the data to the visual. Different visual types
require specific information, and have somewhat different shelves. The
table visual has the following shelves:
Dimensions, Measures,
Filters, and Limit . In
contrast, the shelves of the bars visual are: X
Axis, Y Axis,
Colors, Tooltips, and
Filters.
The Refresh Visual
button re-draws the visual. Click it after changing the contents of the
shelves, or the visual type.
The name of the Dataset is at the top of this menu; you
can click to change the
dataset of the visual, or click to open the dataset definition in a new browser tab,
and make any necessary changes that are immediately reflected in the options
for the visual.
The Sample Mode option is available only on Arcadia
connections. It enables you to draw the visuals based on a sample subset of
the data, defined as a percentage of the whole data. Turning it on makes the
rendering of the visuals faster when developing them for very large sets of
data, but we recommend turning this feature off in production environments.
By default, sampling is turned off.
The Search functionality helps you find the relevant columns in
datasets with a large number of columns.
The Dimensions and Measures
sections list all fields of the dataset. You must place them on the
Shelves to specify the visual. If the
dataset models a join of two or more tables, you may notice that the
fields are grouped with their source data table. Note that this
dataset contains a single source table,
census_pop.
Menu Selector enables you to switch between the primary menus:
Data (default)
Settings
Colors
Style
Custom
Style
Segments.
The top bar contains the Save button, the
Close button, and a supplementary menu
that includes the following actions: