Tools panel
This panel houses all the frequently used operations on the OLAP chart - save, export, print and display options.

Button	Function
	Load the Grid state
	Save the Grid state
	Export OLAP-slice data
	Print OLAP-slice data
	Preview
	Undo
	Redo
	Switch axes
	Select the docking panels layout
	Set the scale of Chart display
	Select the color palette for measures

Modifier panel
Modificators are easy and powerful options of data representation. You can choose your data be shown in different colors, using different shapes and sizes, so that you can easy distinguish them in a single graph. You can simply place a dimension or a measure on a modificator’s pane and get the graph showing different values in a different manner. For example, you might place the "Problem Category" dimension on Color pane and get the Chart showing problem categories in different colors. Or you can place the "Cost" measure on Color pane to highlight the top rates of supporting the service requests. The same can be done for Shape and Size so that you can make your data perfectly distinguished.

The layout of panels and hierarchies on the Modifier panel allows you to change the appearance of the displayed slice. When an element is placed to the modifier panel (except for Details), its legend will contain the display parameters. If you modify the color and shape of an element, the appropriate parameters can be amended.

If a measure is placed on the Color pane, its values range is mapped to the given colors range so that it’s tremendously easy to spot the top/low values. If you select the discrete gradient type, you'll be able to set threshold values for filling the Chart elements. While the continuous gradient will let you evaluate the trend as a whole. To select the gradient type and tune its content, turn to the legend panel.

The Legend panel
The panel contains descriptions of the modified elements. The value, shape and color of a legend element can be edited.

Setting the Color legend
To select a color, simply double-click the appropriate element and choose a color from the pop-up editor.

Setting the Gradient legend
To edit the gradient, double-click the element and tune the settings in the editor. In the Gradient Editor there are:

• a set of pre-made gradients;
• selecting gradient option (continuous or discrete);
• creating a gradient with a set number of intermediate colors option;
• setting threshold in per cent and measure values option;
• selecting threshold color option.
   

Setting the Shape legend
The shape selection is made through the context menu. This option is available only for points or lines Charts. If the number of hierarchy members exceeds the number of available shapes, they will be repeated.

Chart Panes
The bulk of the OLAP-slice data are placed into cells with Charts. Each measure group has its own set of panes.


Measure groups with corresponding Charts in the working area
 

In the upper left part of each Chart, there will appear a context menu for selecting its type.


Chart type menu

The size of Charts can be changed to some extent. To expand a Chart along either one of the axes, you need to capture its boundary with the mouse and drag it. You can change the size along both axes (or return to default) through the tool menu in the upper part of the working area.
 

Hot keys for changing the scale
Ctrl+*	Reset Scale to 1:1
Ctrl+Num+	Zoom In
Ctrl+Num-	Zoom Out

Navigation
If the content of the Grid exceeds the client area, the scroll bars will appear. You can scroll down the data using the mouse wheel. To scroll the Grid in the vertical direction, turn the mouse wheel, while holding Shift.

Selecting Data
You can select Chart points with the standard Windows' method. Holding down the Ctrl button, you can add selected points, holding down the Shift button, you can select the horizontal range. You can filter the Grid's points while selecting. In that case, the corresponding hierarchy members will be filtered automatically.

Selecting and filtering parts of Charts
a. Selecting some of the Chart points	b. Selecting the Filter command	c. The result

Note: When moving the mouse cursor over a data axis, you are able to select a continuous range of members (if the axis is composed of them) or a range of values in Charts.

Filtering hierarchies
In case you need to collect data not from the whole Grid, but just from a part of it, the component has a few functions at your disposal: they let you select or remove elements from the slice. Also, there is a standard option of exporting data into a number of formats and printing out the content of OLAP-slices.

The simplest way of selecting data is through the context menu. When you click a hierarchy member on the Cube axis, there is a set of commands for quick operations with members:

• Hide this member
• Hide all members except this
• Hide all members above this
• Hide all members below this

Filter on hierarchy level
The Filter area of the Editor becomes visible only in case if filtering by hierarchy levels is available. To apply a filter to hierarchy members, you need to select a hierarchy level (if there's more than one) and assign the Filter condition in the Filter menu. In the same menu, there's a command to clear filter.

Filtering hierarchy members
If the search field is not empty, the "Find" command will make the component perform a search for hierarchy members, whose levels contain the specified string. You can narrow the search results by checking the "Exact matching" box.

Filtering a single member of a hierarchy
By default, the Editor is able to select any number of hierarchy members. To switch to the single-select mode, uncheck the "Multiselect" box. In that case, only one the hierarchy member with all its parents and members will be selected.


 

Filtering measures
There is a number of available parameters for filtering measures. In the same Editor, you can clear the filter.