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How do I create a chart?

Learn how to create and edit charts in your Visible account.

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Written by Matt Preuss
Updated over a month ago

To create a chart, start with opening Visible. From here, open a dashboard where you would like the dashboard to live

To start building a chart navigate the Dashboard where you would like for the chart to exist in (you could also build a chart directly on an update). By building a chart on a dashboard a place to live and the chart will be able to refresh as your data does.

Once you have the dashboard open, click the '+' in the top right hand corner. This will give you the option of build a: 'Chart', 'Table', 'Text', or 'Variance report'. Choose Chart.

Once you select Chart, this will open the chart builder for you. Next, you will choose the data source you want to be used within the chart. Click Search for metrics... and see the integrations that you have connected. You will add the metrics from the data source you want to use on your chart. Google sheets, accounting softwares, and user provided metrics are most popular for chart building

Once you have added in the metrics you in your chart (you're able to add multiple metrics to a single chart), you will be ready to add insights and format the charts. To add an insight, click into the related metric and click + Add an insight. This will give you a list of insights to choose from. Next, choose Previous period change. This will make sure to exclude non completed time periods . Next, click on Options in the top right of the chart builder. This is where you can change the title of the chart, change the chart type, and change the charts display period and add metric insights to the chart. Once your are done click Save in the top right of the chart builder.

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See below for step by step instructions of building a chart!


Step One: Open Visible and select Dashboards

Open Visible and click Dashboards along the left side of your screen


Step Two: Click + New Dashboard or choose an existing dashboard

Click + New Dashboard to create a new dashboard or click an existing dashboard to add/edit your charts.


Step Three: Click +New and then choose Chart


Click + New in the top right of your screen. Then choose Chart.


Step Four: Search for the Metric(s) you want to visualize with a Chart


Search for the metric(s) that you want to create a chart for.


Step Five: Optionally add insights


Add insights to emphasize changes over time.


Step Six: Click Options to format your Chart


Under Options, you can change the name of the Chart, alter the type, change the time period, change the scale and more.


Step Seven: Click Save


Click Save in the top right of the screen to save your chart. Now you have created your first chart and every time the metric source of this chart is updated the chart will also update!

Please reach out if you have any questions related to integrating your metrics or building charts. We are happy to help!

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