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Working with Heat maps

Introduction

There are lots of ways to interact with heat maps, including editing what they show, resizing them, and copying and saving their contents.

You'll find a general introduction to heat maps here.

The heat map menu

The heat map menu is accessed by clicking the   menu button in the heat map's title bar. The menu contains the following options:

Change settings

Opens the heat map settings pop-up window, where you can edit the heat map

Show legend

Toggles display of the heat map legend on and off

Apply transforms

Toggles whether transforms are applied to the heat map

Copy plot

Copies the heat map to the clipboard

Save plot as a picture

Saves a picture of the heat map to a file

Working with heat maps

Opens this help topic

Editing what the heat map shows

Heat maps are set up as part of the protocol and you can, of course, edit them in the protocol page at any time. However, a more interactive way of editing a heat map is to use the   Change settings option on the Heat map's menu. This opens the Heat map settings pop-up window next to the heat map itself - see figure 1.

Figure 1. The Heat map settings pop-up window

A great feature of the Heat map settings pop-up window is that as you make changes in the window they are immediately reflected in the heat map, making it very easy to adjust the format and contents to exactly what you want.

The options available in the pop-up window mirror those available in the Heat map settings in the protocol:

Resizing a heat map

It's very easy to resize a heat map, just drag the resizer in the bottom-right corner of the heat map's background. Changes to the size persist, so if you close a heat map report and later reopen it, the map will still be the same size.

If you resize a heat map on the Results page all the heat maps in the report (of the same type) will also resize. Again the map's size will be retained, although the size of a heat map on the Results page, can be different to the size in the Test heat map report.

Showing and hiding the legend

You can show and hide the heat map legend simply by selecting the appropriate option from the Heat map menu. The legend shows the heat map's scale and also includes details of any markers shown in the map.

Figure 2. The legend includes the heat map scale.

Applying transforms

If you have defined any apparatus transforms or any moveable zone transforms, then the Heat map menu will include an option to Apply transforms, which can be used to toggle whether the transforms are actually applied to the map you are viewing. Note that you can only choose to have all transforms applied or none.

Copying a heat map

You can copy a heat map to the clipboard either by selecting the   Copy plot option from the Heat map menu, or by right clicking anywhere on the plot and selecting the Copy plot option from the menu that appears.

The entire heat map is copied, including the title bar and the legend, if shown.

Saving a heat map to a file

To save a heat map, either select the   Save plot as a picture option from the Heat map menu, or right click anywhere on the map and select the Save plot option from the menu that appears. A standard Save file window will open where you can choose the file and format to save in. More details, including a description of the various formats available, can be found here.

Note that the entire heat map is saved, including the title bar and the legend, if shown.

Printing a heat map

You can't print a heat map in isolation, but you can print the heat map together with the report it is part of - either a Test heat map report or a Results report. In either case you simply need to select the Print button in the ribbon bar.

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