Chart Enhancements for Dashboards in Lightning Experience
Visualizing business data is understanding business data, so we’ve
improved dashboard charts to help you see it better.
These changes apply to Lightning Experience
only.
Where: These changes are available in Lightning Experience in Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions.
Why: Here’s why you’ll love the chart enhancements to dashboards.
- Show Chatter Photos on Horizontal Bar Charts
- Horizontal bar charts are another excellent way to visualize leaderboards. Now, add a
touch a personality to them by showing Chatter photos!
- See Astro in Dashboard Table Components
- In the Add Component preview pane, when configuring a component to show Chatter photos,
you now see Astro as a placeholder for peoples’ Chatter photos. Once you save and refresh
the dashboard, you’ll see everyone’s Chatter photos.
- Set Display Units in Dashboard Charts
- Choose how to display values in dashboard charts by setting the Display
Units. Shortened Number automatically chooses a unit appropriate for your
data and abbreviates it. Whole number displays the actual values. Other options are
Hundreds, Thousands, Millions, Billions, and Trillions. Choose what makes most sense for
your data.
Lightning tables, the dashboard component, don’t support setting custom display units.
Report charts don’t support setting custom display units.
- Show Values on Line Charts
- See the values of peaks and valleys on line charts without hovering. Just select
Show Values.
Showing values is not supported on multiple line charts.
- Multiple Line Charts in Dashboards Are Easier to Read
- In dashboards, on line charts with two or more lines, the space beneath lines is no
longer filled with color. Line charts with only one line still color-in area beneath the
line.
In reports, multiple line charts always color-in the area beneath lines.
- Axis Titles Wrap
- In dashboard components, but not in report charts, axis titles now wrap onto a second line before truncating.
- Dashboard Table Components Look Like the Report Run Page
- For consistency between reading data in reports and dashboard tables, we’ve made dashboard tables better resemble reports.
- See Currency Symbols like $, ¥, and € in Charts and Tables
- Is that $100 or ¥100? When values are measured in currencies like dollars, yen, or
euros, chart values now display a currency symbol.
Report charts do not display currency symbols.
- Bar Charts Now Respect Sort Order in Second-Level Groups
- Previously, bar charts respected sort order in first-level groups, but not second. Now, sort order is respected in both groups.