Notifications on chart cells can tell you additional information about a chart.
Drill Path Notification
In pi, you can immediately see if a chart has a drill path. If this icon is displayed in the top left of a chart cell, you will be able to drill down on this chart.
Filter
If this icon is displayed at the top-left of a chart cell, it means that a filter has been applied to the chart.
Click the icon to view what data the chart has been filtered on.
Help text
If help text has been added to a chart, you will see this icon at the top-left of a chart cell.
Users will able to view the information by clicking the icon and then selecting the ‘Chart info’ tab.
Alert Notification
If an orange warning triangle is shown at the top left of a cell
click the alert button to view what the alert relates to. The information can be seen on the ‘Notifications’ tab.
Parent Chart
This icon at the top-left of a chart cell indicates that the selected chart is a ‘Parent Chart’.
Chart Info
The Chart Info tab, that can be seen when you click any of the icons mentioned above, provides more information about the chart such as the data source/ category that the chart belongs to, any help text entered and the URL to embed this chart into your other applications.
The Chart Info tab will also provide you with additional information when you drill into a chart such as which drill level the chart is on and which part of the chart was used to drill down. In the following example, we can see that a user drilled down on the 31-40 Age Group.
The ‘Chart Information’ section will provide information on:
Chart Name - the name that the chart was saved to the Library with. This name may differ from the name used for the chart in the Dashboard
Data Source - the data source that was used to create the chart
Category - the Category that the chart belongs to. Charts can be built on any Category in the Dashboard and if users don’t have access to that Category they will be unable to see the chart even if it was added to a Category that they do have access to
Remaining Cache Time - remaining amount of time to cache the data
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