Creating a Linked Analysis
Create a linked analysis to drill through hierarchical data or create filters that
simultaneously update multiple charts in your story. You can also create a linked analysis
from a table measure to simultaneously update multiple charts in your story.
Context
With linked analysis, when you create filters or drill through hierarchical data in one chart,
the same filters are applied to other charts that you include in the analysis. For a
filter to update other charts, the charts in the analysis must be based on the same
model, or the source models must contain linked dimensions.
Note
Spatial filters
created with a geo map can be applied to the story or group through linked
analysis.
Linked analysis can also be used to link a table measure or account name to the same measure
in one or more charts. When the table is linked to the chart, selecting a table cell
won't change what the chart displays, but selecting a column header will.
Procedure
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Select an object (chart, geo map, or table) in your story.
Your selection will be the driver for the linked analysis.
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From the
(More Actions) menu select (Linked Analysis).
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Select an interaction option:
Option |
Description |
Only this Widget |
(default option): Filtering and drilling through hierarchical data
on this object will only update this object. |
All widgets in the Story |
Filtering and drilling through hierarchical data on this object will
update all the objects in the story based on the same model or
linked dimensions to this object's model.
|
All widgets on this Page |
Filtering and drilling through hierarchical data on this object will
update all the objects in the page based on the same model or linked
dimensions to this object's model.
|
Only selected widgets |
Filtering and drilling through hierarchical data on this chart will
update only specific widgets.
|
Note
When enabling linked analysis on a chart set with a geo map, you can set a
filter based on a data point in the bubble layer or a selected shape in the
choropleth layer. A Histogram, Waterfall, or a Time Series chart can receive
links from other charts, but it cannot send them.
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Select Apply.
Results
Your linked analysis is created. Filtering and drilling through hierarchical data on this
object will simultaneously update other objects depending on the interaction option you
selected.
Note
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If the charts in your linked analysis are based on models with linked
dimensions, the ID of the linked dimensions must match. Otherwise,
filtering in one chart will not update the linked charts.
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If the charts in your linked analysis are based on models with linked
dimensions, and you drill through the data in one chart, filters are
applied on all linked charts, but the level of the data displayed is not
changed.
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Linked analysis filters that apply to All widgets in the Story
will replace story filters on the same dimension.
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When you delete a chart filter using the filter token, the chart
interaction is shared by the linked analysis; therefore, story filters
applied on the same dimension will also be deleted.