How to Nest a Grid in a Banner

This article describes how to nest a grid in a banner. By default, only variable sets with Nominal, Binary - Multi, Binary - Multi (Compact), Ordinal, or Date/Time structures can be dragged into the banner creator. If it is in another structure, such as Nominal - Multi: Grid with unordered categories, when you are creating your banner, it won't show up in the list of variables eligible for inclusion in the banner.

Requirements

A Displayr Document.

Method

1. Select the grid variable you want to nest from the Data Sources tree and click + > Convert To > Binary - Multi > Flatten Nominal/Ordinal - Multi to create a flattened version of the grid.
2. Select a single variable set as the initial data for the banner. You can add more variables later.
3. Hover and click + > Banner.
   
   The new BANNER will appear in the Data Sources tree and just to the right of it in the object inspector:
   
4. Drag the flattened variable set to just below the variable in your BANNER. A box just below the variable will open up where you can drop it.
   
   After you drop it, a preview window will also appear to show you want the BANNER will look like:
   
5. Drag the BANNER variable set onto the page. The result is as follows:
   

Next

How to Create and Customize a Banner

How to Flatten Variable Sets