Design Panel in Smart Discover

The design panel exposes some key functions that allow you to edit the design of your discovery. You can use these options to add data labels to charts, show totals in grids, change the color scheme of the discovery, and change the position of legends, slicers, and query captions.

Design Panel

General

Themes

Change the color scheme used for the visual (blue arrow above).

Layout

Change the position of the discovery's slicers, legends, filters, and sorting (green arrow). For an example, see Layout and Captions (below).

Grids only

Totals

Show or hide totals in a Grid (purple arrow).

Charts only

Data Labels

  • Show or hide data labels in the visual (orange arrow). The data labels display the value for each segment of the chart, according to the measure you added to the visual. This option is enabled when working with charts.

    • Layout and Captions

    Use the Layout drop-down (purple arrow below) to change the position of all slicers, legends, and Filter and Sort query captions on the discovery. These may be positioned to the right, left, top, or bottom of the canvas:

    Once you have positioned your artifacts as a group using the Layout drop-down, you can also edit them individually:

    Reposition

    You can reposition the captions using the grab handles (green arrow above). You can drag the captions to a different position at the top, bottom, left, or right side of the canvas. A blue highlight appears when you are over a "docking" zone, and you can drop the panel onto that zone to dock it.

    Resize

    You can resize the captions by dragging their borders (blue highlight) up, down, left, or right, depending on the panel's position.

    Remove

    You can remove the captions, where applicable, by clicking the vertical "ellipsis" and selecting Remove on the context menu (green arrow). This removes the described Sort or Filter from the query.