Global Settings

The Global Settings card is a composite card grouping three unrelated concerns that apply to the whole visual: Options, Value Font and Step Label Font.

Options

Property	Description	Default
Show extra columns	Master switch for the extra columns feature	Off
Sort on funnel value	When on, steps are sorted from the highest Score to the lowest, giving the classic tapering funnel shape. When off, steps keep the order they appear in the data	On
Ascending funnel	When on (and Sort on funnel value is also on), steps are sorted from the lowest Score to the highest and the whole visual is framed as growth instead of loss — see Ascending funnel below. No effect when Sort on funnel value is off	Off

See Data Roles → Score, Base, Comparison, Comparison base for what feeds the significance test, and Leakage → Significance level / Independence for where it's configured.

When a later step can score higher than an earlier one

Some funnels aren't strictly decreasing — e.g. a Good Opinion step can score higher than Familiarity when the option was also asked to observations that don't know the product. Turn Sort on funnel value off to keep the steps in their natural data order instead of re-sorting them by Score. Pairing this with Bars → Rectangle bars avoids a shape that reads as an inconsistent funnel.

Ascending funnel

By default the funnel is framed as loss: the widest step is first, each subsequent step is smaller, and the gap between two steps is a "leakage". Ascending funnel flips that framing to growth, for reports where the story is where you win audience rather than where you lose it.

Turning it on (with Sort on funnel value also on) changes three things together:

Area	Descending (default)	Ascending
Sort direction	Highest Score first	Lowest Score first — steps with no Score still sort to the end, i.e. the weakest position
Bar taper, with Bars → Constant size on	Full width at the top, tapering to a point at the last step	Mirrored: narrow at the top, widening down to full width at the last step
Card names in the Format pane	Leakage · Show leakage pills · Competition Leakage	Growth · Show growth pills · Competition Growth — the same cards and the same properties, worded for a gain rather than a drop-off

With Constant size off, bar widths stay proportional to Score — and since they are normalized against the group's highest Score rather than the first step's, the ascending funnel widens correctly instead of overflowing its area.

What is not flipped

• The significance logic and colors are unchanged: above always means the group's step-to-step change is significantly larger than the comparison's, so your existing Leakage color choices keep their meaning.
• The legend labels (Neutral / Above / Below label) are free text and aren't rewritten for you — edit them yourself if you want growth wording rather than "…leakage" (see Leakage → Legend).
• Column headers are likewise your own text.

Requires "Sort on funnel value"

Ascending funnel only reverses the sort, so it does nothing when Sort on funnel value is off — in that mode the steps always keep their raw data order and no sorting is applied at all.

Value Font

Typography for the score value drawn near the top of each bar.

Property	Description	Default
Font	Font family	Segoe UI
Size	Font size in pixels	16
Bold / Italic / Underline	Standard text style toggles	Bold on, others off
Font color	Text color	#FFFFFF
Text halo	Adds a semi-transparent contrasting stroke behind the text so it stays legible on any bar color	On

Step Label Font

Typography for the step name drawn just below the value, always rendered in upper case.

Property	Description	Default
Font	Font family	Segoe UI
Size	Font size in pixels	10
Bold / Italic / Underline	Standard text style toggles	Off
Font color	Text color	#FFFFFF
Text halo	Same contrast-stroke behavior as the value font	On

Text halo

Both text halos automatically pick a dark or light stroke based on the luminance of the font color, so the same setting works whether your bars are light or dark.