Formatting

You can customize a dashboard, story, or visualization by changing its visual properties.

Working with the legend
A legend is a key to the items in the visualization. The legend appears if there's a column in the Color data slot or Size by data slot.
Changing colors
You can change colors in the entire dashboard or story, in a visualization, or in widgets that you added to a dashboard or story.
Changing visual themes
You can change colors for the entire dashboard or story.
Creating a color palette
As a report, dashboard, or story author, you can create custom color palettes while you work on the canvas.
Matching color palettes on multiple visualizations
When multiple items on the canvas share a category or value, use the Color consistency advanced setting to automatically adjust the visualization colors to match each other.
Changing the axis
You can change the axis by rotating the axis labels, adjusting the scale of the axes to include or exclude zero, and showing or hiding the names of columns that appear in the axis titles.
Improving the visibility of labels
You can change the visibility of the labels in some visualizations, by adding a shadow or changing the contrast.
Adding labels in the visualization
You can add labels to the visualization itself so that you can easily see the data for each data point.
Changing the label orientation
You can change the orientation of the labels on the horizontal axis in some visualizations.
Changing the label format for pie visualizations
You can change the format of the labels in pie visualizations.
Changing the value label location
You can change the orientation of the labels on the horizontal axis in some visualizations.
Connecting data points with smooth lines
You can show data points connected by smooth curves in an area, line and column, or line visualization.
Set the interpolation between data points in a visualization
You can set how data points interpolate in an area, line and column, or line visualization.
Using a different symbol
You can change which symbol is used in a line and column visualization or a line visualization.
Changing the size or color of bubbles
A bubble visualization shows relationships among columns that contain numeric values. The bubbles appear in different sizes and colors based on the values in specified columns.
Changing the orientation of a word cloud
The word cloud visualization can be shown horizontal, vertical, angled, both horizontal and vertical, or any.
Showing or hiding grid lines
You can show or hide the grid lines that appear in the background of some visualizations.
Showing or hiding padding
You can show or hide the empty space that appears between parts of the data points in some visualizations. This is called padding.
Working with objects
You can work with objects, such as visualizations and widgets, that are on the canvas.
Changing the layout of an object in a dashboard
You can specify a horizontal and vertical alignment for an object in a report to determine where they appear.
Formatting text in a crosstab or table
You can format the text in a crosstab or table to customize the font family, text color, font size, styles, and alignment.
Undocking the toolbar
When you select a visualization on your dashboard, the toolbar appears at the top of the dashboard and is docked there by default. You can undock the toolbar so that is it displayed with your selected visualization.

Parent topic: Dashboards