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Display options
The tabs, party colors, saved filters and sorts, and viewer filters that decide how a scorecard's results look.
Applies toEditor license
Display options decide how a scorecard's results look to everyone who opens it, in your organization and in a widget. You set them on the wizard's Review step, under Display options and in the results below it, and they're saved with the scorecard. They change how the scores are shown, never how they're computed.
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Color by party | Off | Party colors on the Legislators bars and the Distribution columns |
| Viewers can change the filters | On | Whether people viewing the scorecard can open Filters |
| Find my legislators | On | Whether people viewing the scorecard get an address box beside Filters |
| Tabs | All seven, in the order below | Which tabs the results show, and in what order |
| Filters | None | Which legislators and bills the results open on |
| Sorts | Legislators by score, highest first; bills in the scorecard's own order | The order of the Legislators and Bills tables |
Tabs#
| Tab |
|---|
| Legislators |
| Bills |
| Matrix |
| Distribution |
| Map |
| Tiles |
| Methodology |
Select a tab's chip to show or hide it, and drag the chips into order (or use Alt with the arrow keys). At least one tab stays shown. With only one, it shows on its own, without the tab bar. See Reading the results for what each tab shows.
Color by party#
Fills the Legislators bars and Distribution columns blue for Democrats and red for Republicans. It's off by default, because a scorecard colored by party reads as partisan before anyone reads a number.
Saved filters and sorts#
Whatever filters and sorts you set on the Review step are how the scorecard opens. Filters narrow what's shown, never what was scored. Each tab offers the filters that bear on it:
| Filters | Offered on |
|---|---|
| Legislator — Chamber, Party, Grade, Score | Legislators, Distribution, Map, Tiles, Matrix |
| Bill — Outcome, Chamber of origin, Weight, Has rationale | Bills, Matrix |
To sort, select a column heading in the Legislators table (Name, Party, Chamber, District, Score) or the Bills table (Bill, Position, Weight, Rationale). In the Bills table, a third select returns to the scorecard's own order.
On a saved scorecard's page, anyone can still change the filters (if allowed) and the sorts, but those changes last only until they leave the page. To change what's saved, edit the scorecard.
Viewers can change the filters#
On: anyone viewing the scorecard can open Filters to narrow or widen what's shown. Their changes aren't saved.
Off: viewers see the results filtered as you left them, with a note of how many filters the scorecard's author applied. This applies to everyone, in your organization and in widgets.
Find my legislators#
On: an address box sits beside the tabs, to the left of Filters. Anyone viewing the scorecard can enter an address and see only the legislators who represent it. See Finding your representatives by address. It's separate from Filters: it still works when viewers can't change the filters. An address is never saved with a scorecard, even one you enter on the Review step.
Off: there's no address box, on the scorecard's page or in its widgets.
The option isn't available for a session elected on district lines the Census Bureau has no maps for, or on a server where address lookup isn't set up.