When working with Tree Maps and Hierarchical Tree Maps, you can change the background color from the Formatting panel. You can also adjust the headers for Hierarchical Tree Maps.
Fill
Background Color: change the color of the report background, without affecting the chart background. This function is available for both tree maps and hierarchical tree maps.
Settings
Optimize Visual: the visual optimization engine in Pyramid is a heuristic that automatically redacts certain parts of a graphical visualization based on the amount of space provided.
Hierarchical Tree Map Chart
When working with Hierarchical Tree Maps, you can group the map by color and adjust headers. To do this, choose Hierarchical Tree Map Chart from the main drop-down, and go to the Settings tab:
From the Settings tab, you can access the following functions:
- Group by Color: group the tree map by color; the hierarchy in the Color drop zone will then drive the headers, rather than the hierarchy in the Details zone.
- Font: change the header font type.
- Size: change the header size.
- Style: change the header style (bold, italics, or color).
- Border Color: change the border color.
- Border Width: change the border width.
- Background Color: change the header background color.
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Optimize Visual: the visual optimization engine in Pyramid is a heuristic that automatically redacts certain parts of a graphical visualization based on the amount of space provided.
Hierarchy Group Headers
The Hierarchy Group Headers dialog is accessed from the Component ribbon:
From the dialog the following items may be edited:
- Font: change the header font type, size, color, and emphasis.
- Borders: change the border width and color. This affects all borders in the visualization.
- Background Color: change the background color of the header labels.
Example
In this example, the chart was grouped by color, the headers were bolded, and the header background color was changed to green:
