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Controlling the X-axis display

You can set the minimum and maximum bounds for the heat map x-axis and set values to be displayed along the axis. For example, to customize the x-axis display for hole diameter:

  1. Open configHeatMap.xml in an editor and scroll down to the line defining the menu item you wish to suppress. For example,

    <HeatMapToolSpec name="holeDiameter" invertedGoodness="true" unit="Length" displayName="i18nMsg(holeDiameter)">

    The “invertedGoodness” attribute is a Boolean that allows you to reverse the relative desirability display of an increasing value. In cost management, increasing values are often negative: more cost, more waste, more material to be purchased, and so on; such increasing values are usually shown in the aPriori product with red arrows. However, sometimes increasing values represent a positive change: higher utilization, increased sales, etc. These can be represented by green arrows in the aPriori UI by setting invertedGoodness="true".

  2. Inside the closing angle bracket for this line, insert the bounds that you wish to use for the x-axis. For example, shown in bold below:

    <HeatMapToolSpec name="holeDiameter" invertedGoodness="true" unit="Length" displayName="i18nMsg(holeDiameter)" lowerBound=".25" upperBound="2.0">

  3. Inside the closing </HeatMapToolSpec> tag for this metric, add the labels you want to use along this axis. For example, when you finish, the entire section should resemble:

    <HeatMapToolSpec name="holeDiameter" invertedGoodness="true" unit="Length" displayName="i18nMsg(holeDiameter)"  lowerBound=".25" upperBound="2.0">
<GroupingSpecs>
<GroupingSpec name="i18n(designStandards)"/>
</GroupingSpecs>
<XAxisLabelSpecs>
<XAxisLabelSpec value=".3" label="i18n(smallHole)"/>
<XAxisLabelSpec value=".75" label="i18n(mediumHole)"/>
<XAxisLabelSpec value="1.5" label="i18n(largeHole)"/>
</XAxisLabelSpecs>
</HeatMapToolSpec>

  4. Save the file.

  5. Go to <apriori_install>\ext\project-management-plugin\macro\app\ConfigureHeatMap\Messages and make a back-up copy of macroMessages.properties.
  6. Open macroMessages.properties in an editor and scroll down to the end of the file.

  7. Append the following lines to support the x-axis labels that you defined in configHeatMap.xml:

    HeatMap.smallHole=Small Holes
HeatMap.mediumHole=Medium Holes
HeatMap.largeHole=Large Holes

  8. Save the file.

  9. Restart aPriori . The x-axis for Hole Diameter should now resemble the following:

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Heat map localization

The heat map is designed to support localization. The top section of configHeatMap.xml provides the following definition lines:

<messageBundles defaultBundle="macroMessages">
    <messageBundle baseName="macroMessages" filePath="messages/macroMessages.properties" country="" language="" variant=""/>
    <messageBundle baseName="macroMessages" filePath="messages/macroMessages_de_DE.properties" country="DE" language="de" variant=""/>
    <messageBundle baseName="macroMessages" filePath="messages/macroMessages_fr_FR.properties" country="FR" language="fr" variant=""/>
    <messageBundle baseName="macroMessages" filePath="messages/macroMessages_zh_CN.properties" country="CN" language="zh" variant=""/>
    <messageBundle baseName="macroMessages" filePath="messages/macroMessages_ja_JP.properties" country="JP" language="ja" variant=""/>
</messageBundles>

The messages subfolder contains a macroMessages.properties file, along with localized copies for each of the languages defined in configHeatMap.xml.

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If your company has users in different locales, you should maintain configurations in parallel for all relevant languages.