On your Visual Discovery analytic dashboard on the Web, click inside a component and drag your cursor until part of the data is captured by an outline. Release the cursor to complete the selection. You will see the selection change the appearance not only of the component in which you made the selection, but in all the Visual Discovery components on the dashboard.

To change the shape of the selection tool, right-click the component and select ActiveX Properties. Click on the Selecting tab and choose a new selector shape. For more information, see Selecting Tab.

Once you have selected data on your Visual Discovery analytic dashboard on the Web, the excluded data is grayed out or simply not present, depending on the options pre-selected by the Dashboard creator. If the excluded data is grayed out, you can restore it in the following ways:

• Clicking a gray section replaces the current selection.
• Ctrl + click adds the new section to the current selection.
• Dragging the selector shape across the component selects a new set of data.

If the excluded data has disappeared from the component, you can restore it by:

• Selecting the grayed-out data in another component.
• Right-clicking the component and selecting Show unselected to keep the selection area the same while displaying unselected data.
• Right-clicking the component and selecting Select, Select All to restore all data to the selection.

To change the orientation, label display, sort order, or glyph choice for any Visual Discovery component, right-click the component and select the appropriate item. For pie charts, you can also change the rotation, the measure of explosion, or the weighting.

For access to the complete set of component options, right-click the component and select Properties.

To save a component as an image, right-click it and select Save image. Specify the destination and file name to save the component as a GIF file.

A bookmark is a combination of display characteristics, such as the selection state (data that is selected, unselected, or excluded) and the colors used in the component. The Visual Discovery bookmark feature allows you to save a specific state in your analysis, so you can return to it at a later time without recreating it from scratch.

To save the current state of your analysis, right-click the component, select Properties, and access the BookMarks tab on the Properties dialog box. In the input field, type a name for the bookmark and click Create and OK. The new bookmark will be available from the Bookmarks option on the pop-up menu for the component.