Bookmarking Explorer Views

You can create different Explorer views and add them to your Story bookmarks.

You may want to create different Explorer views and come back to them later. You can do that by creating the views and then creating story bookmarks.

Note
To create Explorer views, your chart or table must have been created with Enable Explorer selected. For more information, see Changing the Initial Chart for Explorer Mode

Create Explorer Views

Open your story in View mode and then select Explorer View Mode.

Once you are in the explorer view, select a chart or table.

  1. Select New Explorer View.

  2. To rename the view, do the following:

    1. Select your newly created view and then select Edit.

    2. Provide a name.

    3. (Optional) Set the view as the explorer default view.

    4. Select OK.

  3. Make changes to the measures, dimensions, and even the chart type.

You can create as many different views as you want.

Now you can choose a different chart or table and create more views, or just create a bookmark.

You can return to the story mode at any time by selecting (Story View Mode.

Create a New Bookmark

To make sure your new views will still be there when you come back to the story, you need to create a bookmark. However, when you open the story, selecting an explorer bookmark won't open the explorer view.

  1. From the menu, select Start of the navigation path (Bookmark) Next navigation step Bookmark Current StateEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Provide a name for your bookmark.
  3. Select Save.

Your bookmark is added to the list of bookmarks.

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