Display Group Data

When dragging data directly onto a report, scorecard, or small multiple, a data label is normally created automatically to display that data, which you can then customize, remove, or re-visualize. This visualization initially displays data directly from the same group metric set used to produce the rows (or columns) of your view using the data you dragged onto the grouping hierarchy region. This can help with performance when viewing or exporting, especially when there are many data labels.

Data visualizations can also select data separately from the group, especially when they need to display multiple rows or data points within each individual visualization (e.g., a line chart that needs to connect multiple data points).

If a visualization currently displays the group metric set's data, the text Displaying group data is shown in their Data Analysis Panel and options are disabled unless you open the group's Data Analysis Panel directly. You can click Select data separately if you want to create a separate metric set for the visualization.

Note: If you are using any filters or view parameters, you should connect them to the new metric set.

Afterward, you can select more data or make other changes just for this visualization. New visualizations added using Data Visualization in the toolbar already start out with their own separate metric set.

If you want to make changes to the group metric set when your visualizations are displaying group data, you can open the group metric set's Data Analysis Panel by clicking the cube and magnifying glass icon next to the grouping hierarchies.

In the visualization's Data Analysis Panel, you can also click the hyperlink to the group metric set (e.g., Group 1 - Metric Set 1) as a shortcut to switch to its Data Analysis Panel.

Here you can add more data, filter or sort it, or access other metric set options such as measure formatting.