When you drag the Map Component 
icon from the Toolbox on the Design tab of the ribbon to the desired area on the workboard, the Map Designer dialog box opens for connecting the map to one of the views on the workboard and defining visualizations. This dialog box is also activated by clicking the Edit 
button on the Design tab of the ribbon.
You will use the Map Designer to perform the following steps:
From the View dropdown, choose the view the map should connect to.
If the Y-axis of the view you selected is not a geographic dimension, a message will appear in the map component advising you to change your selection to a geographic dimension that Necto automatically picks from the list of dimensions. To accept the automatic selection, click on the map.
When the Always Zoom to Selection option is selected (default), the map automatically zooms into a selection you make on the grid. When this option is deselected, there is no automatic zooming to selection.
The Map Designer provides several templates for visualizing grid column data. By default, the Basic Template is selected, which comes with predefined settings for four types of visualizations: Area color, circle color, triangle size, geo entity name.
If you want to apply another template to the chart, select it from the Templates dropdown.
You can select templates also by clicking the Template 
button on the Map tab of the ribbon.
To define a visualization, click the Add 
button and select a style.
A new tab opens for defining the settings of the selected visualization. Enter the definitions as described in Area Color, Boundaries, Shape Color, Shape Size, Text, Geo Entity Name, Exceptions, Infographics, Chart.
This style is used to display the data on the map as color-coded areas. For example, you can display areas with a high concentration of stores in red, and areas with a low concentration of stores in yellow.
Assign To
The Assign To parameter is set to “Auto”, meaning that the visualization is attached to the first selected column (from left to right) on the grid. You can assign this visualization to another data column.
Classification
Use Classification and Color to define the color scheme. Classification determines how the values on the map will be distributed among the colors. Choose one of the following methods:
· Linear: With this method you can use 3, 5, 7 or 9 colors, and the range of values will be divided into equal-sized sub-ranges among the colors. You can manually set the lowest and the highest values. Values lower than the minimum will be represented by the color representing the minimum, and values higher than the maximum will be represented by the color representing the maximum.
· Linear by interval: With this method you can use 3, 5, 7 or 9 colors. Here you specify an interval by which to equally divide the range of values. The interval is a value (not the number of intervals). You can also manually set the lowest value. Necto will order members by values and separate them according to the interval value, determining the number of partitions automatically based on the interval.
· Threshold: With this method you can use only two colors. The threshold for distributing the values between the two colors is determined automatically. You can change the threshold by entering a percentage value.
· Quantile: With this method you can use 2, 3, 5, 7 or 9 colors, and each partition will contain an equal number of items to be presented.
· Natural breaks: With this method you can use 2, 3, 5, 7 or 9 colors. Partitions will be based on natural groupings inherent in the data. Necto identifies break points by picking the partition breaks that best group similar values, and maximizes the differences between partitions using Jenks natural breaks optimization.
· STD (Standard Deviation): With this method you can use 2, 3, 5, 7 or 9 colors. It will show you how much an item's value varies from the mean. Necto will calculate the mean values and the standard deviations from the mean. Partition breaks are then created using these values. You can set the size of the median partition in Partitions.
· Continuous: With this method you can use only 2 or 3 colors. The values will be distributed continuously between the lowest value and the highest.
· Manual: Open the dropdown and select the number of partitions. Set/change the interval for each color.
· Percentile: Open the dropdown and select the number of partitions. Set/change the intervals in terms of percents.
Partitions
Use the Partitions parameters to define the color scheme: Choose the number of partitions that should represent the data and then choose the colors from the palettes.
You can click 
to select a predefined set of colors from the list that opens.
Use the 
button to reverse the colors.
Line Width
Specify a Line Width and a Color.
Substitute By
Use the Substitute By parameter to replace the area color polygon with another graphic. Choose the shape and specify the Size of the shape. When sets the rule for when the substitution should take place: when the length of the area (corner to corner) is smaller than the value in your selection, or always (of any size).
Label
If you want the data values to appear on the map, in Label select the location where you want them to display.
The following example illustrates the area color visualization with default settings.
The Boundaries option can be used to draw lines around selected visualization shapes on the map.
Change the settings or just use the default values. The following example illustrates the boundaries drawn around area color visualizations.
This style is used to visualize values by color shades using shapes like circle, diamond and triangle.
Define the settings in the same way as for Area Color.
Select the Shape you want, and change its settings or just use the default values.
Use the Offset parameter to position the shape on the map.
The following example illustrates this with circles colored in shades of red, from dark (higher values) to light (lower values).
This style is used to visualize values by size, using shapes like circle, diamond and triangle.
Define the settings in the same way as for Area Color and Shape Color.
Select the Shape you want, and change its settings or just use the default values. The range of values in Size will result in shapes of different sizes (from small to large, within the specified range) representing values of the grid column, from low to high.
The following example illustrates this with blue circles.
This visualization is used to display values as text.
Change the text settings or just use the default values. The following example illustrates this visualization.
The Geo Entity Name option shows the names of the entities from the geographic dimension on the map.
Change the settings or just use the default values. The entity name can be displayed fully or by a number of letters. In Text, choose how to display the name.
The following example illustrates the geo-entities on the map.
The Exceptions option enables you to see the exceptions from the grid on the map, even if you hide the grid.
Change the settings or just use the default values. The following example illustrates the exceptions on the map. The exceptions are indicated with black down arrows both on the grid and on the map.
Pointing to an exception on the map displays the same tooltip as the one displayed on the grid.
This visualization is used to display in the map the in-cell infographics from the grid.
Infographics from all members will display automatically. To display infographics from a specific member, choose it in Assign To.
Specify where to position the Labels (cell values).
Use the Offset parameter to position the infographics on the map.
This visualization is used to display values in charts.
Select a Chart Type, and set its Size, Color and Transparency.
Specify where to position the Labels, and select the Tooltips format.
Use the Offset parameter to position the shape on the map.
To remove a visualization, click 
on that tab.
Use the Move Up 
and Move Down 
options to move the visualizations to other positions.
You can arrange the shapes on the map in several ways.
Choose an option from the Arrangement list. Manual means the shapes will be arranged according to the offset values specified in the visualization definitions.
