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Charts

You can visualize any data as a chart that will quickly show your team how your business is trending. 📊

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Last updated 2 years ago

  • Select the chart icon to visualize a selected table.

  • Select chart type to configure the chart as a:

    • Bar

    • Line

    • Combo

    • Pie

    • Scatterplot

  • Configure how you want to display the chart

    • Select Stacking to configure how the data should be plotted:

    • normal stacking stacks the data series on top of each other in order

    • 100% fills the plot area and draws each point of data with a relative percentage to all the points in the same category

    • Select x-axis to configure which source field appears horizontally in the chart

    • Select series to configure which data series should display in the chart:

    • If you are configuring a chart based on a pivot, toggle to the pivot menu to configure how you want to summarize a value.

    • Select All will display all data points in the table in the chart.

    • You can also customize the display name of each axis