Sparkline

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Sparkline

Sparklines can be used in cards to visualize the variation of actual (or target) values over time.

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Data Binding Specifics

To display a sparkline within a card, provide a date-time dimension whose data will be used to visualize values over time.

Note

To learn how to provide actual (or target) values for a card, see the Providing Data topic.

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Note that if you have provided both actual and target values, a sparkline visualizes the actual value's variation over time.

Sparkline Options

You can control sparkline appearance settings using the Card Settings dialog. To invoke this dialog, click the options button (the img20167 icon) displayed next to the data item container.

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In this dialog, you can control various settings that affect how the sparkline is displayed within a card.

Sparkline Options

Description

Visible

Specifies whether or not to show a sparkline within a card.

Sparkline view type

Defines the view type of a sparkline. Sparkline view types include Area, Line, Bar and Win/Loss.

Highlight min/max points

Specifies whether or not to highlight the minimum/maximum points of a sparkline.

Highlight start/end points

Specifies whether or not to highlight the start/end points of a sparkline.