Heat Map Property Reference

In the widget's side panel (Figure 195, “Widget menu options”), click the settings icon and the style icon to configure the following properties.

  • Title

    The title of the widget as displayed in the dashboard.

  • Description

    The description of the heatmap chart. This is free form text supporting markdown syntax.

    This same description will appear in the dashboard as a tooltip by hovering over the question mark on top of the widget.

  • Layout

    • Gridlines

      Checkbox to enable/disable gridlines in the chart.

  • X-Axis

    • Max Label Length

      Slider to set the length of labels in the horizontal axis, in pixels. The chosen length affects the distance between labels.

    • Text Anchor

      Controls where the label is positioned under the grid. Options are:

      • Left

      • Center

      • Right

    • Angle

      Slider to modify the angle of the label in the horizontal axis.

    • Show Title

      Checkbox to show/hide the title assigned to the horizontal axis.

    • Custom Title

      Allows to change the default title of the horizontal axis and assign a preferred one.

  • Y-Axis

    • Max Label Length

      Slider to set the length of labels in the vertical axis, in pixels.

    • Show Title

      Checkbox to show/hide the title assigned to the vertical axis.

    • Custom Title

      Allows to change the default title of the vertical axis and assign a preferred one.

  • Legend

    • Location

      Sets the position of the legend in the chart. Valid options are:

      • Top

      • Right

    • Min Value

      Sets the minimum value of the legend range. If an input aggregate value is below the specified value, it will be mapped to the minimum color.

    • Max Value

      Sets the maximum value of the legend range. If an input aggregate value is above the specified value, it will be mapped to the maximum color.

    • Show Title

      Checkbox to show/hide the title assigned to the legend.

    • Custom Title

      Allows to change the default title of the label and assign a preferred one.

    • Value format

      Format the values as Raw, Abbreviated or Metric. For example, if the raw formatting is 1,000, abbreviated would be 1K, and metric would be 1k (1 kilo).

  • Tooltip

    Appears when hovering over a cell and shows the X-axis and Y-axis values together with the aggregate value of the cell.

    • Include Histogram

      Checkbox to show/hide a histogram in the tooltip. The histogram displays hovered columns as bar charts to reveal content.

  • Colors

    • Palette

      Allows to change the color of the grid; options are:

      • Teal Monochrome

      • Magenta Monochrome

      • Peach Monochrome

      • Blue Monochrome

      • Green Monochrome

      • Green Red Diverging

    • Reverse

      Checkbox to select/deselect the inverted colors option (all the colors are the opposite in the grid).