Workflow Automation: Advanced Charting Actions
Advanced Charts can be added to any Create or Update action to update an Image field on a Podio Item.
Chart Types include:
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Line - displays quantitative data, best for a continuous graph
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Area - similar, based on the line chart
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Horizontal & Vertical Bar - work best for categorical data
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Stacked Bar - similar, best for a cumulative total
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Pie - generally used to show percentage or proportional data of 6 categories or less
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Gauge - show information as a reading on a dial (speedometer)
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Gantt - illustrate the start and finish dates of elements in a project
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Pyramid - best used to show hierarchical structure, as well as quantity or size
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Funnel - using multiple groupings in an ordered set to show the proportions among them
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Sparkline - a line chart, typically drawn without axes or coordinates, to show a trend in a series of data
Once the Chart Type is chosen, the Chart Settings become available
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Choose the Data Source. Select Manual Token List to manually input data and use tokens OR Collected Items to select an items field from a previously collected set of data.
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Choose the Label. Create a comma-separated list from multiple field tokens OR choose a field from the drop-down menu to use for Labels.
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Using Series 1, chart the first set of data. Give the Series a Name. Then, create a comma-separated list using the Manual Token List data set, otherwise, choose the field that holds that data to chart on the Collected Item. Even customize the Series Color and Symbol.
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Choose Add Series to add multiple sets of data on the same Chart.
Other Settings include:
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Title
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Design
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Plot Area
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Labels
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Legend