Fitting To Width

Quick reference

• 00:05 All right, in this video, I want to talk about fitting to width and
• 00:07 I suppose height as well.
• 00:09 So let's come down here to our, my dog dashboard and let's right click and
• 00:13 let's just duplicate this.
• 00:15 So we create a second version.
• 00:17 Now we've got a pie chart here, we've got these graphs here.
• 00:23 Now if I grab this and kind of cycle through these using this guy over here,
• 00:27 you can see it kind of changes.
• 00:29 Now it's kind of smaller.
• 00:30 As we click on these, now this one's bigger, and maybe that's fine.
• 00:34 Maybe that's perfectly okay.
• 00:36 But maybe you want this data for instance,
• 00:38 this stuff right here to take the entire width no matter what.
• 00:42 So every time we cycle through this and change it, we still want it to maintain
• 00:47 its size in this whole little square area that we've defined right here.
• 00:52 How do we do that?
• 00:53 Well, really easy we can come up here and just click anywhere inside of this and you
• 00:56 can see the whole thing highlights, and then over here we get this little menu.
• 01:00 So we can click this little caret for more options, and we can get this fit.
• 01:03 So standard is standard.
• 01:05 There's also a fit width, fit height, and fit entire view.
• 01:07 So if we want this to stretch width wise, left to right, we can click fit width.
• 01:14 You can see boom, it sort of expands automatically.
• 01:19 Now, as we cycle through here, even though this is big,
• 01:21 it still is fit to the whole width.
• 01:22 Now this one, let's find another small one.
• 01:25 Even though this only has two items in it,
• 01:27 it still stretches out to fit to the entire width.
• 01:29 Now may be you want this, may be you don't.
• 01:30 There is arguments for both.
• 01:32 Visually, I would say, it's probably more pleasing, but standardization way.
• 01:40 If you're comparing this one to this guy, it's a little odd
• 01:43 because these columns are so gigantically wide versus these ones that are skinny.
• 01:48 So if that's an issue, you may not want to do this.
• 01:51 But if you do, very easy to do this.
• 01:53 Just go to fit.
• 01:55 Now if we want to change it back, we can click standard, and it goes back.
• 01:58 So this is interesting.
• 02:00 If we come up and click all, right?
• 02:01 We get this huge thing and the thing is so
• 02:04 big we need to scroll with this scroll bar down here.
• 02:07 And maybe you don't want that.
• 02:09 Well, we could do the same thing, we could go fit to width and
• 02:14 then it scrunches it all in.
• 02:16 Now obviously this is completely unreadable, but you may have a situation
• 02:20 where it's only slightly bigger and you want to kind of compress it.
• 02:24 Fit to width will do that.
• 02:26 So let's get rid of that and change that back to standard.
• 02:30 And there we go and we can pop down here and it goes back.
• 02:34 Now fit to width also works with height.
• 02:36 We can do the same thing with that.
• 02:38 We can go stamp we go fit it height, nothing really changes.
• 02:42 But for instance here are for our pie chart that might change.
• 02:45 So we came up here and went fit to height, you see it gets a little bigger, right?
• 02:50 The same thing here, we could go fit width and it pulls it and
• 02:54 sticks it right in the middle.
• 02:57 Well maybe that's what we want.
• 02:58 So that's kind of cool.
• 02:59 We can also do fit entire view and again makes it a little bit bigger.
• 03:03 So play around with this depending on the type of visualization you have,
• 03:08 you may or may not want to use this, but it's really sort of a handy way to,
• 03:12 by default, make a thing a certain way.
• 03:15 We can do the same thing for this one for instance.
• 03:16 This guy is only taking up what?
• 03:18 Maybe a third of the screen, a little more than a third of the screen.
• 03:22 You come over here, you can go fit to width.
• 03:23 Boom, that will pull it all the way over.
• 03:28 Maybe you like that better, maybe you don't, but that's a great option for you,
• 03:32 and you can play around with that.
• 03:34 So that's all for this video. In the next video,
• 03:35 we'll look at changing the font sizes and the colors of our dashboard.

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