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Select Which Attribute Forms to Display in a Visualization
You can choose which attribute forms appear for a specific attribute. An attribute is a business concept, such as Region or Income Bracket, that provides a label for the numerical data (that is, metrics) in your dashboard. An attribute form is a descriptive category for an attribute. While most attributes have only the forms ID and Description, an attribute such as Customer can have many other forms, such as First Name, Last Name, Address, Email Address, etc. See Introduction to Attributes for a more detailed description of attributes and attribute forms.
Selecting which attribute forms to display is helpful when you are working with attributes containing geographic information. You can select whether to display the latitude and longitude information for an attribute, when that information is stored in separate attribute forms.
You can also determine what attribute information appears in the attribute and attribute form headers in the visualization.
You can choose to have a header containing the attribute form name automatically display above each attribute form shown in a grid, or have a single header display for each attribute in a grid, with each header containing only the attribute name.
- Open a dashboard.
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Click on the visualization in which you want to display attribute forms.
- In the Editor panel, right-click the attribute for which you want to display attribute forms and choose Display Attribute Forms.
- To display an attribute form in the visualization, select the corresponding checkbox.
- To hide an attribute form in the visualization, clear the corresponding checkbox.
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To automatically display the attribute's name, select Off (default) from the Display Attribute Form Names drop-down list. No attribute form name appears for the attribute.
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To automatically display the attribute's name, as well as the selected attribute form names, select On from the Display Attribute Form Names drop-down list.
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If your visualization is a grid, you can automatically display a single header for each selected attribute form. Select Form name only from the Display Attribute Form Names drop-down list.
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If your visualization is a grid, you can display a header for each attribute form and include the attribute name only in the header for the first attribute form for each attribute, select Show attribute name once from the Display Attribute Form Names drop-down list. The remaining attribute forms display with only the attribute form name.
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If your visualization is a grid, you can display either headers for each attribute or attribute form, depending on the number of attribute forms visible in the grid for each attribute, select Automatic from the Display Attribute Form Names drop-down list. If only one attribute form appears in the grid for an attribute, the attribute appears with a header containing the attribute's name. If more than one of the attribute's forms are visible in the grid, each attribute form appears with a header containing the attribute name, followed by the attribute form name.
- Click OK.