Chart widget

With our premium Chart widget, you can place a variety of charts on your page. You can import the data from a CSV file, a URL or add it manually.

Here's everything you need to know about this widget.

Instructions:

1. Add a Chart widget
2. Set data source
3. Context menu
4. General settings
5. Advanced settings
6. Background settings
7. Resources

1. Add a Chart widget     [back to top]

Add a Chart widget with the Add button

1. Click the Add icon in the top right corner.
2. Click the bottom option Widget and select the Premium tab. Now you will see our available Premium widgets. They are all marked with a red heart.
3. Click the option Chart.
4. Confirm your changes by clicking the Confirm button (Checkmark icon).  

You can add as many Chart widgets to your page as you'd like.

2. Set data source     [back to top]

The first thing you should do is set a data source for your Chart widget. You can do this by opening the Data tab in your Settings pane.

1. Click the Downward arrow in the top right corner to open the Context menu. 
2. Click Settings.
3. Choose the final tab Data.

There are three kinds of data you can display with your Chart widget:

1. Enter data manually.
   • Add a Label and value.
   • Confirm each line by clicking Enter.
   • This data cannot be changed later on. 
2. Connect a publicly accessible CSV file, for example, a Google Sheets document. 
   • Make sure to publish your sheet in the Comma Separated Value format.
   • Use double quotes (") if you want to display values with commas or other special characters.
   • The first line contains column headers.
   • The first column contains labels.
   • The following columns (max. 3) contain numeric data values.
   • CSV files can contain at most 250 rows.

3. Context menu     [back to top]

Click the Downward arrow in the top right corner of your widget to open the Context menu. 

Activate the Edit mode to change the name of your widget, copy the widget to another page or move it. Refresh the content of your widget, to make sure it's up to date. You might notice some delay here.

Enter our Settings pane or delete the entire widget (careful: there's no recovery possible).

The final option allows you to access the Help section (this very article).

4. General settings     [back to top]

There are two ways to change the title of your widget: double-click the title or change it from the General Settings pane.

You can change the icon by uploading your own or selecting one from our database. Click Done to save your changes.

5. Advanced settings    [back to top]

In the Advanced settings pane, you select the Chart type that best matches your data:

• Area chart: shows up to 3 series in an overlapping (non-stacked) area chart.
• Line chart: shows up to 3 series as lines.
• Bar chart: shows up to 3 series as horizontal bars.
• Column chart: shows up to 3 series as vertical bars.
• Pie chart: shows one data series as a pie chart.
• Map chart: shows one data series as a map overlay, showing values per country.

Other settings you can decide here: display the chart with or without legend or borders. The chart will also display the sum total of your data and a trend per data series.

The map chart type expects the first column to contain either:

• Country names in English (e.g., Belgium, Australia, United States);
• A 2-letter country code (according to ISO 3166-1 alpha 2) 

6. Background settings    [back to top]

Change the color of your widget. Set the transparency to make it blend into the background.

 7. Resources     [back to top]

• The Chart widget should be able to display any public URL to a CSV file. For more information about the Google Sheets procedure, check their support section. You could also consult this blog post.
• You'll find the introductory article for this widget on our blog.
• This premium widget is only available for Premium members. Upgrade now!