Use canvas mode

Quiver provides two view mode options for building your analysis: Canvas mode and Graph mode. When you start a new Quiver analysis, you will begin in Canvas mode by default.

Quiver's Canvas is a page on which you can display, position, and resize cards in your analysis.

You can see the active view mode and switch between view modes by opening the view mode dropdown at the upper-right corner of the screen.

Note that adding cards to your analysis on a canvas will also make them visible in the graph (and vice-versa), so you can toggle between the two modes in the course of your analysis.

Creating canvases

A single Quiver analysis can contain multiple canvases.

To create a new canvas, click the + icon in the lower-left corner of your screen.

You can also create a new canvas from the analysis contents panel with the +Add canvas button.

Renaming canvases

You can rename a canvas in one of several ways:

1. Double-click on the canvas name on the tab at the lower portion of your screen

2. Select the down arrow to the right of the canvas name and use the Rename canvas option.

3. In the Analysis content panel, find the canvas you wish to rename, select the "More actions" icon (...) of that canvas and then select Rename.

Adding cards to a canvas

When you add data, charts, or metric cards to an analysis, they will be displayed on the canvas as cards. Cards can be added to the canvas from the Search cards window (which can be accessed from the top menu bar) or through the Next actions menu. These cards will be placed at the bottom of the canvas in chronological order based on the date they were added. The ordering of the cards does not necessarily indicate dependencies between the cards.

Moving and resizing cards on the canvas

You can move cards on your canvas by using the drag handle at the upper-left corner of the card. Click and hold the click as you position the card in the desired place.

You can also reorder cards by dragging-and-dropping content as desired in the analysis contents panel, as well as across canvases.

Cards can be resized by clicking and holding the lower-right corner.

Hiding and unhiding cards

You may want to hide some cards in your analysis which exist to build logic but are not relevant to display. There are two options to do this:

• From the "More actions" menu icon (...) at the top right of a card (not available on all cards), select Hide.

• From the analysis contents panel, click the eye icon that appears on hover.

Cards that have been hidden from the analysis are still visible at the bottom of the analysis contents panel with a red “prohibited” eye icon (). Clicking on that icon will make the card reappear at the bottom of the canvas.

Understanding card dependencies

When using Canvas mode, you can see all card dependencies (inputs and outputs) in the collapsible Dependencies panel available at the bottom of the card's Editor panel. Clicking an input or output card will change the focus to that card, simplifying navigation on the canvas.

Another way of viewing card dependencies is using Graph mode. Click on Focus in graph to show a linear path of inputs to the selected card.

You can also switch to Graph mode from the canvas by selecting one of two options available in the More Actions menu at the top right of a card:

• View in Graph will switch the view to Graph mode centering on this card with the context of all other cards on the graph.
• Focus in Graph will switch the view to Graph mode in Focus mode which will only show the card selected and its dependencies. To see the entire graph again click on 'Exit Focus'.