Is there any way to batch-edit data visualisations?

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I have a large number of data visualisations.

 

In each of them, I want to change from this:

 

 

 

to this:

 

 

 

 

Is there any way of effecting this change to all of them at once, or do I have to go through all individually, one by one?

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Going to resign myself to the answer being "no" and get on with editing my c. 150 data visualisations manually, one by one.

 

My feeling is that any time there is a list of things of the same type that can be edited, there should be an option to multiple-select them, and then batch-edit any settings that they all have in common. Maybe there is some reason this can't be done in this scenario.

[Tom W.]

I know this is not the question you're asking but is there a way to combine the 150 separate DVs into fewer DVs?

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4 minutes ago, Tom W. said:

I know this is not the question you're asking but is there a way to combine the 150 separate DVs into fewer DVs?

 

Yeah, it's become apparent that maybe I should have set it up more like that at the beginning. However, combining it all now would be more work than editing all the existing ones. It's done now, anyway, only took 45 minutes.

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13 minutes ago, Tom W. said:

is there a way to combine the 150 separate DVs into fewer DVs

 

Is there ?

 

8 minutes ago, line-weight said:

combining it all now would be more work than editing all

 

How ?

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1 hour ago, zoomer said:

 

Is there ?

 

 

How ?

 

So, my DVs are something like this (where X is the value in a record format field):

 

- If X=10, hide object 1

- If X=20, hide object 2

- If X=30, hide object 3

....

- If X=1500, hide object 150

 

This is done by saying, (eg) under "Object Criteria" find all objects where X=10, then under "Display criteria" I choose Colors: All objects and then in the list below, I have one item that says set pen & fill to "none".

 

150 DVs in total, and I can apply 1 or more of them to any viewport.

 

I was thinking that I could, instead, do something like:

 

Under "Object Criteria" just choose everything(?), then under "Display Criteria" choose Colors: Objects using Record and then tell it to use the relevant record field and then have my 150 options in that list below ... but I now realise this wouldn't do what I want, because I can't then turn the various options on and off per viewport. I think.

 

But I remain a bit confused about the two parts of that dialogue, the "Object Criteria" and "Display Criteria" because it sort of seems like the top bit filters certain objects and then the bottom bit filters that set again. But I don't think that's exactly what's happening.

 

I suspect that part of the reason it's confusing is the same reason as usual in VW: the terminology is not helpful and it's leading us to think it's doing something different from what's actually happening. I'm not going to try and untangle it all just now though...