Getting Started
Yellowfin has the capability to render GIS data (points and polygons) into an image which can be overlaid with your report data. To enable GIS reporting you must have GIS data available in the databases you wish to query for reporting.
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| 2. Navigate to the Format tab and set the Format to either Latitude/Longitude or Longitude/Latitude depending on the order of the points within the data. 3. Save the field settings and then save your view. You are now ready to use these fields for reporting. 
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GIS Map Tutorial
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| 1. Click on the Create link and select Report to begin building your report. |
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| 2. You should now be on the Initialise Report page. Select the Drag and Drop Builder as the build tool. |
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| 3. Select Ski Team as the View. 4. Now click the  Image Modified button to proceed. |
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| 5. Drag in the Country and Geo Polygon fields. 6. Now drag in your metrics, in this example Invoice Estimate is used three times, as a MIN, MAX, and AVERAGE. 7. Set the report to display as a Chart Only. 8. Click the Image Modified Next image to continue. |
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| 9. On the output page click on the Chart Icon to edit the chart and set up your GIS Chart. |
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| 10. From the Chart Menu select Map. Next, select the GIS Map type. Click Save to save your selection. Image Modified |
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| 11. You will now see the Chart Data section updated with fields relevant to GIS Maps. 12. Select: GIS Field: Athlete Geo Polygon
Metric: Max Invoice Estimate
Label: Athlete Country 13. Click Refresh to generate the map.  Image Modified
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| 14. In the Chart Format options, select Visible Series Selection. |
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| 15. You should now have a map like the one pictured here. Much like the raster map, this one needs resizing so that the legend is closer to the highlighted areas. |
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| 16. Now add a layer to the map that will fill in all the country polygons that contained no data. 17. Click on the  Image Modified Add Layer link 18. Select the GIS World Background report that comes with Yellowfin. |
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| 19. Set the colour of the new layer to a light grey and click Refresh. Image Modified 20. You should now have a map that looks like this. 21. Save and Close your map. |
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