09-03-2020, 09:38 AM
There are a several ways to link Interest Areas for analysis. One way is to use the "Group Label" property (lower panel of the Data tab in the Inspector window) of the Interest Areas you want to link to assign them to a common group.
This property allows for a text label to be assigned to all the Interest Areas. This label can be exported as a variable (column) in various reports. This allows for simple grouping or filtering for any statistical analysis that is required. Note that assigning Interest Areas with the Group Label property has no impact on any of the calculations done in any Data Viewer report.
Interest Areas can also be merged or linked together. This process will change the actual property of the Interest Area and have an impact on relevant report variables. To merge Interest Areas, select the desired Interest Areas and right click and select the "Merge" option to join these Interest Areas into a single, larger Interest Area. To link different (non-contiguous) Interest Areas, all Interest Areas must first be converted to Freehand Interest Areas (Right click Interest Area -> IA Shape Actions -> Convert to Freehand).
Selected all desired Interest Areas in either the Inspector window or by holding the CTRL (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) key, then right click on one of them and select the Link feature. Once linked, the single linked Interest Area will have a thin line connecting all linked Interest Areas to one another.
This property allows for a text label to be assigned to all the Interest Areas. This label can be exported as a variable (column) in various reports. This allows for simple grouping or filtering for any statistical analysis that is required. Note that assigning Interest Areas with the Group Label property has no impact on any of the calculations done in any Data Viewer report.
Interest Areas can also be merged or linked together. This process will change the actual property of the Interest Area and have an impact on relevant report variables. To merge Interest Areas, select the desired Interest Areas and right click and select the "Merge" option to join these Interest Areas into a single, larger Interest Area. To link different (non-contiguous) Interest Areas, all Interest Areas must first be converted to Freehand Interest Areas (Right click Interest Area -> IA Shape Actions -> Convert to Freehand).
Selected all desired Interest Areas in either the Inspector window or by holding the CTRL (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) key, then right click on one of them and select the Link feature. Once linked, the single linked Interest Area will have a thin line connecting all linked Interest Areas to one another.