Include linked object properties in Object Set Quiver analysis

[marcia-schulman]

Hello,
I am trying to create a pie chart from a filtered Object Set. The problem is that the “group by” property for the chart is an ID number that is the primary key of a linked object. There does not appear to be a way to traverse to the linked object set to display the “name” property of the linked object instead of the ID number in the chart/legend. Ideally, in the Filter that feeds into this pie chart, one would be able to add the linked object property to the Display.

Is there currently a way to do this that I am not seeing? If not, could this be added to the area shown below? Currently, “Add property” does not allow traversing to linked objects.

[oflynn]

Generally, object sets can only contain properties belonging to one object type. There are a couple approaches you can take to get around this:

1. Manually override the labels for each pie chart segment to the corresponding name for the linked object
   

   

2. If the filtered object set is under 50,000 objects, convert it to a transform table and use the “Join to linked objects” transform. The resulting table will contain a columns from the linked objects, which can be used to create a pie chart using Vega plots
   

   

[marcia-schulman]

I’m wondering if traversing to linked object properties could be added to the area I highlighted in my original post. In the API / Code Repositories you can access linked objects directly through “dot” notation, so this should not be difficult to add as a feature to the Quiver UI.

Consider this a feature request