This page describes specific settings for the Bar Chart widget. Note that generic widget settings are described on the Widget Generic Settings page, so if you cannot find the setting you are looking for check there too. It is good practice to design your charts to be as accessible as possible.

Bars

Orientation

Choose between vertical or horizontal bars

Width

Set the bar width

Tooltip format

Choose the tooltip format. Click the arrow on the right to see suggested values. If you wish to add confidence limit values to the tooltip you can use the variables #YMIN and #YMAX.

Sort bars by value

Choose whether bars should be sorted by data value, and if so ascending or descending order. This setting is only active if the Type setting under Series is set to indicators-as-series and if Include all areas under Behavior is toggled on.

Include comparison bars in sort

You can configure if comparison bars are displayed at the right of all other bars or included in the core feature bar sorting. This setting is only active if the Type setting under Series is set to indicators-as-series and if Include all areas under Behavior is toggled on.

Use stacked bars

Click the toggle to show stacked bars. Your data must be able to support this and it is likely that you will need to adjust other settings to combine with this one. This is often used to show multiple indicator values in a single bar. Bars will be grouped by date if time series data has been defined.

Comparisons as lines

Click the toggle to show comparison features as lines rather than bars.

Value labels style

If you are showing value labels on bars, choose between text and badge.

Value labels font size

If you are showing value labels on bars, set the font size in pixels.

Axes

Font

Type the name of the font you would like to use for axis text into the box.

Font size

Type into the box or use the arrows to set the font size for axis text.

X axis label format

Choose a label format for the X axis. Refer to the Variables page for information on the possible values.

X axis title

Type a title that will be displayed for the X axis.

Y axis number format

Choose a number format for the Y axis. Refer to the Number Formats page for more information.

Y axis title

Type a title that will be displayed on the Y axis e.g. ‘Percentage’ or ‘Rate per 1000’

Colors & Highlights

Palette

Choose a color palette for the widget. You can edit the active palette by clicking the x buttons to remove colors or the + button to add colors. There are also buttons to change to a different palette completely, to copy/paste color codes to/from the clipboard and to toggle the direct edit view that allows you to type in color codes delimited by commas e.g. #a6cee3 #b2df8a #fb9a99 #fdbf6f #cab2d6 #ffff99 #1f78b4 #33a02c #e31a1c #ff7f00.

Chart background color

Choose a background color for the chart.

Highlight selected feature

Choose whether you would like the widget to highlight the selected feature.

Highlight color

Choose a highlight color for the selected feature. This setting will be greyed out if Highlight selected feature is false.

Highlight style

Choose a highlight style for the selected feature.

Limits & Error Bars

Please refer to this page for the use of these settings.

Annotations – Lines and Zones

Bar charts can show fixed lines or zones additionally to the displayed indicator(s). You can add up to 4 lines and up to 4 zones to the chart. Each line has it’s own fixed value, label, color, width and style. For each zone, the start and end value, label, color and opacity can be defined. Lines and zones can be added to either the x or the y axis allowing for a wide rage of use cases.

Statistics

You can chose to display the mean and/or median line either superimposed over or behind the bars of your bar chart. The label, line style and color can be adjusted.