\u00a0It’s time to give your charts a glow-up!
Let\u2019s face it, sometimes charts feel cluttered, cramped, or hard to read. When you need your dashboard to be accessible for lots of users, clarity is everything.
Smartsheet\u2019s latest enhancements to chart styling and readability achieve this. Here\u2019s what\u2019s improved:
✔️ Better spacing and layout for cleaner visuals
✔️ Improved text overflow handling, so labels don\u2019t get cut off or cramped
✔️ Refined display of negative values, making trends clearer at a glance
✔️ Custom series label sizing, giving you control over readability
Now is a good time to go and tweak a few things, perhaps resize a chart or move a legend around, to make the most of these upgrades. But the result is a dashboard that looks sleek and is much easier to understand.
The whole point of Smartsheet is to make data easier to view and interpret and this definitely helps with that mission. What have you noticed about the enhancements? Are you a fan?<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0It’s time to give your charts a glow-up!Let\u2019s face it, sometimes charts feel cluttered, cramped, or hard to read. When you need your dashboard to be accessible for lots of users, clarity is everything.Smartsheet\u2019s latest enhancements to chart styling and readability achieve this. Here\u2019s what\u2019s improved:✔️ Better spacing and layout for cleaner visuals✔️ Improved text overflow handling, so labels don\u2019t get cut off or cramped✔️ Refined display of negative values, making trends clearer at a glance✔️ Custom series label sizing, giving you control over readabilityNow is a good time to go and tweak a few things, perhaps resize a chart…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Top Tips<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"mike_admin","url":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/author\/admin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}