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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 6, 2016

Combine 'Color By' and 'Shape By'

They have 'Color By' and 'Shape By' set to the same column, would like to combine them into one legend entry that combines the color and shape into a single marker.

For example:

Color by:
Pet

(red) Cat
(blue) Dog
(green)Fish

Shape By:
Pet

(circle) Cat
(square) Dog
(star) Fish

Could become:

Style by:
Pet

(red circle) Cat
(blue square) Dog
(green star) Fish

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  • Guest
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    Mar 4, 2022

    Thanks Thomas!

  • Guest
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    Mar 4, 2022

    Here is a workaround.

    1. Create a new Scatterplot to serve as a Legend for your main scatterplot.

    2. Set Color and Shape properties the same as in your main visualization. (In the example above, they are the same column, but need not be.)

    3. Set the X-axis custom expression to the value 1.

    4. Set the Y-axis to the Color and Shape column(s).

    5. Clean up Tooltips

    6. Hide the legend, X and Y selectors, and zoom sliders.

    7. Stretch and shape to fit.

    8. Consider locking the visualization to the corner of the page.


  • Guest
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    Mar 23, 2021

    This would be a massive improvement