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Elliott Ridgway edited this page May 18, 2021 · 1 revision

Configuration Documentation: metadata

Arbitrary maps of metadata can be applied to individual points on Watchr graphs. This is particularly useful if you have secondary, non-numeric information that you would like to record and visualize along with your main data line. Watchr displays point-specific metadata when you hover the mouse over the associated point on the resulting graph.

Similar to extracting x and y data points, you must provide an extractor to indicate how Watchr should extract the metadata information from your data file.

The "metadata" section of a Watchr config file is an array. You may provide a new array element for each piece of metadata you wish to create.

Note: On a given data file, if multiple x/y pairings are extracted, but only one piece of metadata information is extracted, that metadata will be applied uniformly across all x/y pairings. Conversely, if multiple pieces of metadata are extracted for a single x/y pairing, and those pieces of metadata are duplicates (i.e. using the same "name" value), the point will only contain the most recently extracted metadata information, and earlier extractions will be overwritten.

Properties

  • name : string : The name of your piece of metadata. This will be displayed to the left of the metadata value in the hover text of your graph.

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