9.3.7.18 The (Plot Details) Group tab

PD-Dialog-Group-Tab

When you double-click on a grouped plot; or you open the Plot Details dialog box and in the left panel, you select the data plot icon for the first dataset in a plot group, you open the Plot Details Group tab.

The controls available on this tab vary, depending on the graph type and the options that have been chosen on other Plot Details tabs. Use these controls to determine how styles are systematically applied to grouped plots.

Gereral Group tab	Group tab for Heatmap with Split Tiles

Edit Mode controls

• Independent: Allows independent customization of data plots in the group. This eliminates all group incremental behaviors, but does not change any plot styles which were already applied.

• Dependent: When chosen, apply incrementing controls as described below.

Group Incrementing Controls

Use these controls to customize the appearance of grouped data plots and develop "group incremental lists."

• The first column is a list of plot elements.
• The Increment column lists incrementing behavior for each element.
• The Subgroup column is used to specify the incrementing behavior for each element in grouped plots with subgroups.
• The Details column shows the list in use.
• The button to the right of Details opens a dialog -- the Increment Editor or the Build Colors dialog (color lists/palettes) -- in which you can customize the current list.

Increment Column

Click on the Increment column drop-down list to set incrementing behavior.

Subgroup Column

Specifies how to use the increment list in grouped plots.

If you have selected any metadata(Book Long Name/Book Name/Sheet Name/Long Name/Units/Comments/Sampling Interval) in the Increment list, the Subgroup drop-down list will be disabled.

Details Column

• Click on the button to the right to open an Increment Editor for any plot element (editing of color elements is done with Build Colors).
• Click directly on the color bar to select a desired color list/palette.

  

For more information on customizing color lists, see Customizing Data Plot Colors.

• Click the editable combo box in Symbol Size row to enter symbol sizes (by point) directly.

  

The symbol sizes can be specified by a series of space separated values, or in the format of "Initial_Size(+Increment)". <Auto> means the same settings as Size on the Symbol tab.

a series of values separated by space	Initial_Size(+Increment)

Working with Incremental Lists

Modifying Incremental Lists

1. Click the button to the right side of Details and open the Increment Editor or Build Colors dialog.

Use the Increment Editor or Build Colors to:

• Rearrange a list by dragging the numbered buttons in the first column (see "Nested" vs. "Concerted", below).
• Click on the arrow to the right of any list member to set another style (Increment Editor only).
• Right-click any list member to Add or Delete elements (added elements are appended to the bottom of the list).
• Click the Flip button to reverse the order of list elements.
• In Increment Editor, right-click on an list to Save a List as a Theme or Load a previously saved Theme. In Build Colors, right-click for shortcut menu commands to Add, Insert or Delete or load another color list or palette. Click to Save the named list.
• The Build Colors shortcut menu also has a Rename mode that allows you to directly edit the default hex codes and assign more meaningful names to color (Note that names can be assigned when defining custom colors, also).

When a plot property (color, symbol shape, etc.) is indexed to a column of categorical data, categories are displayed beside each plot style in the Increment Editor, or in Plot Details tab lists (Shape List, Interior List), making it easier to associate category and plot style.

"Nested" vs. "Concerted" Incrementing

When more than one plot element is set to increment By One, Stretch or Binned, you must choose to increment plot elements in either a Concerted or Nested fashion:

• Concerted: All incrementing elements will cycle through their member lists independently.
• Nested: You establish a hierarchy of elements in which all members of the first element list are exhausted before the members of the second element list are incremented, and so on.

The Group Members preview shows the effect of current settings.

1. To change the incrementing mode, right-click anywhere in the group list controls and choose Nested or Concerted from the shortcut menu.

Reordering Nested Elements

When elements increment in Nested fashion, you can reorder elements and control how incrementing proceeds.

1. Click and hold on a plot element, then drag to re-order the list. The Group Member preview will show how reordering affects plot display.

Saving and Reusing Increment Lists:

1. Right-click on an element and choose Save Increment List.... Note that this action only saves a list for this particular element.
2. To reuse this list at a later time, right-click on the element and choose Load Increment List.

1. If you wish to save all element lists together, right-click and choose Save Theme.
2. You can later retrieve this Theme by selecting Load Theme from the same shortcut menu.

Applying increment list within subgroup or between subgroups

For current grouped plots, you are allowed to subgroup them with the Subgrouping settings and apply increment list to the subgroup(s).

1. Enable subgrouping by selecting By Size or By Column Label radio box, then, set Group Size or select Column Label.
2. In the above table with group incrementing controls, Subgroup column will appear and allow you to select Within Subgroup or Between Subgroup from the drop-down list to specify how to apply the following increment list to the subgroup(s).

Group Members preview box

This view box displays current plot attributes for all the data plots in the group. The view box updates as you change selections on the Group tab or on the associated Plot Details dialog box tabs.

Subgrouping

This control is used to further divide the grouped data plots into sub-groups either by a specific subgroup size, grouping identifier in a column label row or axis based on.

Examples

Example 1: Stacked Bar, Subgroup by Column Label

The following example shows three variations on the same worksheet data. Subgrouping is by column labels -- Long Name, Year or Budget.

Example 2: Control symbol sizes and colors by column header row

The following example supposes that you have group information in column Long Name and want scatters in the same group share the same size and color.

1. On the Graph tab of Plot Details dialog, select By Column Label radio button in the Subgrouping group and select Long Name for Column Label.
2. In the table, set Increment to By One and Subgroup to Between Subgroup for both Symbol Edge Color and Symbol Size.
3. Specify Details for Symbol Edge Color and Symbol Size.

Show Multiple in Same Cell

This group control is only available for the heatmap with split tiles graph. Check this check box to allow spliitting the heatmap cell into multiple pieces by multiple Z values.

Note: Multiple Z values show in same heatmap cell only work when their X Y is same value. We will show plots in same group with same x y in same cell. On the other hand, label of each variable should be in center of related polygon.

Shape

Specify the shape for the pieces to split the heatmap cells.

For example, if there are four Z dataset, the heatmap cell will be splitted as below:

Triangle	Split in Horizontal Direction	Split in Vertical Direction	Split in Both Directions

• Triangle: only work when number of Z dataset is 2^N(N<=3), if number of Z columns is not 2^N(N<=3), split the heatmap cell in vertical direction.
• Split in Both Directions: only work when number of Z dataset is N^2, if number of Z columns is not N^2, split the heatmap cell in vertical direction

Exchange Direction

Specify whether to exchange the arrangement direction of splitted pieces.

The default arrangement direction for the splitted pieces is clockwise(Triangle) or left-to-right(Split in Horizontal/Vertical Direction); Choosing Exchange Direction will make the direction be counter-clockwise or right-to-left. For Split in Both Directions, the default direction is row-by-row; exchanged direction is column-by-column.

Separator control

You are allowed to specify the color and thickness for the separator lines with the cell. Separator means the straight lines split the cell. The default color is white and the default thickness is 0.5.

When you set Separator Color and Separator Thickness to Auto, they will follow the setting of cell border lines which can be specified in Border group in Colormap tab.