Overview - Explain briefly the various panels of the data visualizer
Left bar: Selection of chart type, input parameters and options for your visualization.
Top bar: Buttons for updating your visualization, saving as favorite, downloading and viewing data table.
Viewport: The area where the visualization will be rendered.
Quickly create a minimal chart
Select a few indicators and click Update.
Change the Chart type
Set chart type to Line chart and update.
Observe how the data trend is visualized over multiple months.
Change the data Series, Category and Filter
Set chart type to Column chart.
Set category to organisation unit and filter to period.
Open Periods panel in the left bar, unselect Last 12 months and select This year.
Open Organisation Units panel in the left bar.
Right-click on the top organisation unit and click Select all children, then click update.
Observe how the the visualization is comparing the organisation units.
Change Indicators
Remove the currently selected indicators by using the double-arrows.
Select an indicator group.
Select several indicators by double-clicking on them, then click update.
Repeat the process for data elements, which will display the aggregated numbers.
Repeat the process for reporting rates, which will display percentages for data sets.
Change Periods
Open Periods panel in the left bar.
Select Last 4 quarters, and click update.
Observe all the available relative periods and how they are rendered in the chart.
Use the Chart options
Create a line chart with one indicator and periods as category.
Select the Trend line option and click update, observe the trend line in the chart.
Insert a Target line value and Target line label, observe the target line in the chart.
Insert a Baseline value and Baseline label, observe the baseline in the chart.
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Save as Favorite
Click on the Favorite button on the top bar, then on Manage favorites.
Insert a name, click save and close the window.
Open favorites again and reload the favorite by clicking on it in the list.
Explore how you can put the chart in the dashboard in the dashboard module and open it in data visualizer by clicking on the Explore link.
Download chart to local computer
Click on the Download button on the top bar.
Download as image file (in PNG format) by clicking on Image (PNG).
Download as PDF document by clicking on PDF.
View data in Data table
Click on the Data table button and view the data in the table.
Observe how the columns can be sorted by clicking on the the column headers.