Question
What goes in the Rows and Columns of an Explore report?
Answer
The Rows and Columns section in the report builder is a place where you can add attributes to your report. Attributes give you more detailed information about the data you're looking at. Which types of attributes go where depends on the type of report you are creating.
If you are creating a table, attributes you want to show up as column headers, put in Columns, and attributes you want to show up as row headers put in Rows. When you create a bar, column, or line type visualizations, the attribute in Columns section dictates the X-axis of the chart. The attribute in the Rows section splits the data into additional, differently colored, rows, columns, or lines.
As you move into more unique visualizations such as Word cloud or Picto, the Row Selector becomes more prominent. The Row Selector allows you to select and focus on different parts of the row attributes.
Learn more about parts of a report and types of visualizations in these articles:
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Greytip Software Pvt Ltd
I create a report using the metrics that I need. They all come in columns and the values as one row when I visualize it by Table using Visualization. In Insights, I could swap the columns and rows so that I do not have to scroll to the right to see the value of all metrics. How do I do this in Explore?
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Chris Bulin
Hi Vijayendra! You can simply drag and drop the attributes in columns and rows to change the orientation. I'm not sure why that share link from screencast isn't working. I've moved a copy over to Google Drive, so this link should work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cbOvu9SEUXK_nFjSoSkDKmBSJ44wj7AC/view?usp=sharing
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Greytip Software Pvt Ltd
Hi Chris! The screen capture link that you provided is not working. I am getting "page not found" message.
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Chris Bulin
Vijayendra I've moved that video hosting to GDrive. Let me know if that doesn't work
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