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.