Motion Drop Zone
The Motion drop zone enables you to view your query in motion, as a series of visualizations. Adding a motion, or play, axis adds visual animations to your charts. Add a date hierarchy to see how your data changes over time.
Watch this video to learn how to utilize the motion axis to view your visuals in motion
Using the Motion Drop Zone
Simply add a member hierarchy to the Motion drop zone (green arrow) to view your query as a moving series of visualizations. For instance, add the month hierarchy to view a series of visualizations, each filtered by a different month, to view changes over time.
Any member hierarchy can be used to animate the visuals, not only date/time hierarchies.
The Motion drop zone is available with Cartesian visuals, which include:
- Column charts
- Bar Charts
- Line charts
- Area charts
- Scatter charts
It is also available when working with maps and scatter charts.
From the motion play bar (blue arrow) you can:
- Play and pause
- Go back to the beginning
- Skip to the end
Motion Settings
Use the Motion option on the Component ribbon to configure the Motion player; indicating where to position the player, how quickly to play your animation, and the Font Settings (font, font size, color, and so on) for your player label.
- Click here for more information about these options
