Using snapshots

A snapshot is a view of your chart at a particular stage in its development. It captures the position and number of all visible chart items. The display settings, such as level of zoom and position of chart in the window are also captured. Snapshots freeze the appearance of your chart at a particular moment, for subsequent viewing.

About this task

You can take any number of snapshots of your chart as you build it and then later view each snapshot in turn. This snapshot shows how information is added to the chart over time. Snapshots are also a useful way of focusing on certain areas of your chart, for example a particular group of entities, or a particular period.

Note:

Avoid scrolling and zooming your chart when you take a sequence of snapshots. Each snapshot saves the zoom level and current view of the chart. Also, avoid changing existing entities and links in later snapshots. A change might be changing the font style and size, as these changes are reflected in earlier snapshots.

Snapshots are saved with your chart.

Snapshots are taken, viewed, and maintained by using the Snapshots window.

Procedure

To open the Snapshots window, click the Publish tab, and then in the Snapshots group, click Take Snapshots.