Range Plume: 9 how-to guides (named ranges, outliers…)

These recipes assume you already have a Range Plume in place. If not, start with getting started: the examples use its data. Features marked ★ are premium: they work without a license, with a watermark.

How do I create named business ranges? ★

Your teams talk about "studios", "apartments" or "family homes", not square meters: give them buttons with those names.

1. Drag Area (m²) into Numeric field (instead of Price).

2. In Format › Presets › Custom ranges ★, type:

   Studio: -30; Apartment: 30-80; Family: 80-140; Large: 140-
   

3. If needed, turn off the other presets ("Without outliers", "Top 10%").

Result: four buttons, "Studio", "Apartment", "Family", "Large"; "Studio" keeps everything under 30 m², "Large" everything above 140 m². Without a license key, a "Premium preview" watermark appears.

How do I remove outliers in one click?

A €1.15M villa pulls the average up and squashes the histogram.

1. In Format › Presets, leave "Without outliers" on.
2. Set Share removed on each side (%) to 10.
3. In the visual, click the Without outliers button.

Result: the 10% cheapest and the 10% most expensive rows are excluded. The range is fixed: if the data changes, click the button again to recalculate it.

How do I read a very skewed distribution?

When a few very high values push all the bars to the left.

1. In Format › Histogram, set Horizontal scale to Logarithmic (or leave Auto, which switches on its own when the distribution is very skewed).
2. If small bins are still invisible, set Bar height to Square root (softens peaks).
3. Turn on Mean marker to compare it with the median.

Result: typical prices use the full width, and the gap between median and mean shows the effect of the outliers.

How do I stop a large model from recalculating on every move?

On a large model, every time you release a handle, all the visuals on the page are recalculated.

1. In Format › Behavior, set Apply the filter to With an "Apply" button.
2. Adjust the range, then click Apply in the visual.

Result: the other visuals only update when you click Apply; Cancel goes back to the previous range.

How do I keep only listings below a price cap?

The buyer has a maximum budget: only the upper bound matters.

1. In Format › Behavior, set Style to Less than or equal to.
2. Drag the single handle to the cap you want, or type it in the input box.

Result: the filter sent is "Price ≤ 300,000", like the style of the same name in the native numeric slicer. Greater than or equal to does the opposite (a minimum floor area, for example). This style is free.

How do I set a fixed scale, from 0 to 1 million?

By default, the scale starts at the smallest value in the data; for a monthly report, you want the same ruler from one month to the next.

1. In Format › Behavior, type 0 in Fixed lower bound.
2. Type 1000000 in Fixed upper bound.
3. If values beyond a handle left at the end of the scale should be excluded, turn off Open-ended at the extremes.

Result: the scale always goes from 0 to €1M, whatever data is filtered.

How do I show numbers next to the slicer that follow the range?

The impact box is useful, but your readers want a big, easy-to-read number.

1. Create the Median price and Listing share measures from the "The data to provide" section.
2. Add two native Card visuals, one with Median price, the other with Listing share (percentage format: Measure tools › Format › Percentage).
3. Choose a range in Range Plume.

Result: both cards update with the range, like every other visual on the page.

How do I keep the range in a bookmark or across several pages?

1. Choose a range, then View › Bookmarks › Add. The bookmark remembers the range.
2. To share the range across pages: copy the visual to the other page, then View › Sync slicers and check the pages you want.

Result: recalling the bookmark or switching pages restores the same range.

How do I filter amounts with cents without slowing down the report?

1. Create a rounded calculated column, for example Rounded amount = ROUND ( Orders[Amount], 0 ).
2. Drag Rounded amount into Numeric field instead of Amount.

Result: far fewer distinct values, a faster visual, and no more limit warning.

Learn more

• Getting started with Range Plume: the data to prepare and a first visual, step by step.
• Range Plume: all fields and settings explained: every field well and every setting.
• Getting started with Plume visuals: installation, license, styles and settings shared by all visuals.
• The visual's page: Range Plume. A question? Support.