Highlight Documents

Overview

Within STN^® AnaVist^TM, highlighting refers to the use of color to identify a group of documents. Highlighting enables you to locate easily the documents you want to analyze. You highlight documents in a particular color. You can also use multiple colors to highlight different groups of documents. Using multiple colors enables you to compare groups of documents within your analysis.

When you highlight a group of documents, you create a highlight set. You can create as many as eight highlight sets (each with a different color) at a time. STN AnaVist provides default highlight set colors, various ones associated with each of the product color themes. You can change the default colors, even after you have created highlight sets with them, on the Highlight Manager.

In addition to the eight regular highlight set colors, there are colors for identifying unhighlighted documents and documents with overlap highlighting (that is, documents shared by two or more highlight sets). Again, you use the Highlight Manager to change the colors for unhighlighted documents and overlap highlighting.

After you have created multiple highlight sets, use the Highlight fields on the Highlight Manager to control how the highlight sets display within the visualization workspace.

Like many STN AnaVist features, highlighting is interactive with the rest of the visualization workspace. Documents highlighted from one point are highlighted throughout the workspace. For example, highlighting done on a bar chart is reflected on other displays that show highlighting (including the Research Landscape), and vice versa.

You can highlight documents and control how highlighting displays from various places in the visualization workspace, including:

Main Menu and Toolbar
Reference Landscape
Bar or Matrix Chart

Highlighting from Main Menu and Toolbar

To highlight all documents, either:

Select Tools > Highlighting Options > Highlight All
Click the Highlight Color Selector , then select Highlight All

Highlighting on Research Landscape

You can highlight one or more dots, representing documents, on the Research Landscape by using one of the following methods:

Click (on a dot): Replaces any existing highlighting with dot clicked
<Ctrl>-click: Toggle highlight status of dot clicked
<Shift>/<Ctrl>-click: Add dot clicked to highlighted set
Click-drag: Replaces any existing highlighted set with dots in drag rectangle
<Ctrl>-drag: Toggle highlight status of dots in drag rectangle
<Shift>/<Ctrl>-drag: Add dots in drag rectangle to highlight set

Highlighting in Bar or Matrix Chart

To highlight documents in a bar or matrix chart:

Click (on a bar or cell): Replaces any existing highlighting with bar or cell clicked. Other cells or parts of other bars on the chart that share the same documents are also highlighted.
<Ctrl>-click: Toggle highlight status of bar/cell clicked
<Shift>/<Ctrl>-click: Add bar/cell clicked to highlight set

The highlighted bar or cell (and portions of other bars/cells) displays in a second color. In this example, green indicates the highlighted portion.

Bar Chart Highlighting

Clearing Highlighting

To clear highlighting from all documents, either:

Select Tools > Highlighting Options > Clear All Highlighting
Click the Highlight Color Selector , then select Clear All Highlighting

To clear highlighting from an individual highlight set:

Click on a blank area of a chart (e.g., not on a bar or cell; not on a dot on the Research Landscape). This clears only the active highlight set.
Select Tools > Highlighting Options > Clear Active Highlight Set. This clears only the active highlight set.
Click the Highlight Color Selector , then select Clear Active Highlight Set. This clears only the active highlight set.
On the Highlight Manager, right-click on a highlight set (active or otherwise), and select Clear Highlight Set