Heat map chart settings

Chart title

The title of your chart

Title font size

The font size of your chart title

The minimum value is 8.

Chart subtitle

The subtitle of your chart

Subtitle font size

The font size of your chart subtitle

The minimum value is 8.

Show tooltips

Enable tooltips, which appear when you hover over areas of your chart and show the values at the point in focus

Show border

Shows a visible border around the chart. This border will create a separation between the chart and dashboard elements that surround it.

Legend

Show legend

By default, all charts display a legend if there are multiple groupings in your chart.

The following options are available:

• Always - the legend always appears on your chart

• Never - the legend is hidden from your chart

• Auto - the legend appears when multiple groupings are present

Placement

If the chart legend is shown, choose whether to display the legend outside or inside the chart and where to place it

Outside chart:

• Left

• Right

• Above (default)

• Below

Inside chart:

• Top Left

• Top Right

• Bottom Left

• Bottom Right

Number of columns

Specify the number of columns that your legend spans

Leaving the default as 0 keeps your legend on a single line.

Title

The title for the x-axis

Rotate labels

Rotate the axis labels by -45, -30, 30, or 45 degrees—or don’t rotate them at all

Hide labels

Hides the axis labels

Title

The title for the y-axis

Rotate labels

Rotate the axis labels by -45, -30, 30, or 45 degrees—or don’t rotate them at all

Hide labels

Hides the axis labels

Background color

The background color of your chart

By default, it uses the background color of the dashboard theme. Selecting another color overrides the background color of the dashboard theme.

Use custom colors

Overrides the chart colors of the dashboard theme

Use the color picker or enter a hexadecimal color code to set the color of each column represented on your chart. Make sure to click Select once you’ve chosen your color to update the selection.

The colors are tied to each specific category in your chart, so if the ordering in your chart changes due to the data changing, the color you associated with Login, for example, always stays associated with Login. However, the color resets if you change the name of Login.

Data format

Select how your value labels are displayed:

• Number

• Percentage - Multiplies the values by 100 and appends a %

• Currency

• None (no format)

• Custom

Number format

Select how the numbers in your value labels are displayed:

• 1,234.56

• 1234.56

• 1234,56

• 1.234,56

• 1 234,56

• 1’234.56

Currency format

Select a currency symbol to prepend to your value labels:

• $ (USD)

• € (EUR)

• ¥ (JPY)

• £ (GBP)

• ₪ (ILS)

• R$ (BRL)

Rounding

Select how to round your values—or don’t round at all

• 1k

• No rounding

• Round to integers (1000)

• 2 decimal places

• 3 decimal places

Drilldown

Use this chart as a variable control by selecting a dashboard and connecting other variable controls to it. Learn more about how to set up drilldowns for a chart.

Annotation

Add a note at a specific x- or y-axis value in your chart to provide your teammates with some context for the data or add a target line to your chart

Show annotation labels on chart

Shows the label you provide when adding a new annotation to the chart

Add a new annotation

Select Add new annotation to create a new annotation

Axis

Select whether the new annotation should show at a value on the x-axis or y-axis

Value

Specify the value on the chosen axis to show the annotation

The sample values below the text field show the required format.

Label

The note you’d like to add

This appears next to the annotation line.

Color

The color of the annotation (for both the line and annotation label)