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- MCFNeilQrew CaptainCool.
Curious what options open up with the HighCharts upgrade. - SamJones3Quickbase Staff@Matthew Neil, what kind of charts would you like to see? We only upgraded the backend for our charts this release, but will be looking at charting enhancements we can make based on the upgrade in the near future.
- QuickBaseCoachDQrew CaptainChiming in here.
I would like to be able to force the scale for the line to be the same as the scale on the bar chart when using the combined line bar format. - MCFNeilQrew CaptainSam,
Pleasure to see you on here (and on a Saturday no less).
Most of the times people use summary reports to display information that could (should) be displayed in report to get the whole story.
Different detailed features to make the reports even more functional for digestion.
Imagine this for Budgets and expense trends, or resource workloads / allocations:
https://www.highcharts.com/demo/area-stacked-percent
(Pie charts are good for snap shots of data, but if you want to see how things change over time, this is a little easier to understand, compared to a grouped summary report).
Heat Maps are becoming a popular request for some of our sales and national clients. Not so much for the function, but because they look cool.
https://www.highcharts.com/maps/demo
One of the big asks is to be able to compare data from different tables. Most of the time people end up integrating with Tableau, Domo, or some other charting system that can display multiple data sources.
I understand that its different table queries, but you are already running one table query, why not two.
Side note; maybe make "3D shadowing" the default in the branding section. Makes the graphs look much nicer and might help the conversion / retention from a marketing point of view. Not many people use / know about that checkbox. - QuickBaseCoachDQrew CaptainMatthew,
Thx for the tip about the 3D chart option. Yes, that is a pretty obscure location for that setting. It?s not even a setting on the individual chart report setup settings itself, - MCFNeilQrew CaptainIt needs to be a 'global' setting. Individual reports doesn't make sense for consistency.
Especially if they get used next to each other on a dashboard.
And where it is, makes the most sense, for the application appearance settings. - QuickBaseCoachDQrew CaptainI guess so. It?s just so obscure, I never knew about it in all these years. Now I know and will circle back to enable for my clients using charts.
- edcooperQrew Assistant CaptainI am on Essentials.
I don't see any of these new features (excluding Super User).
Are they not available for Essentials users? - SamJones3Quickbase Staff@Matthew Neil, Do you mean global at an account level instead of a per-app level? There's a setting under the app branding panel to enable 3D charts for the whole app, I think.
- SamJones3Quickbase StaffEd, these are release notes for the October 15 Release, so no one has the new features yet.