Sep 5, 2024

New graph customizations for dashboard display

Crunch now gives you more control than ever before over how your graphs are displayed in dashboards, as well as a more logical arrangement of controls across tabs.

How it works

When editing a dashboard, you already have access to lots of great customizations via the existing tabs of the “Edit Tile” interface – Properties, Categories and Colors. For most visualization types, you’ll now find a fourth tab – Options.

The new Options tab

The contents of this tab will include most of the following options, though the actual set will vary depending on the visualization type you’re working with.

Some are new options not previously available while others are options that have been moved to this tab for consistency.

New options

Hide value axis

Default - value axis shown
Value axis hidden (and “Show values” enabled)

We would recommend always enabling “Show values” if you hide the value axis, otherwise it will be hard for your users to interpret the visualization.

Hide gridlines

Default - gridlines shown
Gridlines hidden

Hide connecting bars

When confidence intervals are enabled for bar graphs, those intervals are connected to the category axis with thin bars. You can now hide these connecting bars if you prefer.

Default - connecting bars shown
Connecting bars hidden

Category axis label position (horizontal bars only)

Default - category axis labels outside the plot
Category axis labels run along the bar length

Existing options

Show values

Default - no values shown
With values displayed

Value axis - Min and Max

Default - dynamic numeric axis range
Max set to 100 (as an example)

Fit to tile

Default - bars sized to ‘best practice’ proportions
Bars spaced and sized to use the available tile area

In addition to the new customizations available in the Options tab, “Show confidence bands” has now been added to the Properties tab. This will allow you to enable or disable confidence bands on visualizations even after having saved them to a deck or dashboard.

Try it out today

For full details of this new feature, see the help center.

Your Feedback Matters

As always, we’re eager to hear what you think about these enhancements. Please share your thoughts via support@crunch.io.