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Bar Chart cards

The Bar Chart Dashboard card is a custom card available in our Dashboards feature that allows you to visualize changes to data over time.

Bar chart card feature availability and limits vary by plan and user role. Learn more

Add a Bar Chart card

To add a Bar Chart card:

  1. Create a new or open an existing Dashboard.
  2. In the upper right corner, click + Add card. 
  3. From the left sidebar, select Custom.
  4. Click Bar Chart card.
  5. Configure your card settings.
  6. In the upper-right, click Add card.

Edit a Bar Chart card

Hover over a card to:

  • Edit quick settings, including card filters.

  • Use the vertical arrow icons to quickly change the sort order of the x-axis.

    This option is not available when the x-axis uses time or dates, because time is always displayed on the x-axis in chronological order from oldest to newest.

  • Click the settings cog to edit card settings.

Bar Chart card settings

Choose the data and appearance of your Bar Chart card.

The following table describes the available card settings:

Setting group Setting Description
Data Source Select locations Choose the Spaces, Folders, and Lists to include.
Include Subtasks Include subtasks from the selected locations.
Include Tasks in Multiple Lists Include tasks added to the selected locations.
Include Subtasks in Multiple Lists Include subtasks added to the selected locations.
Display Show average line Show the average values as a line across the bar chart.
Show data labels Show the value of each bar on the bar itself.
Show legend Show the color and value of each group by option.
X-Axis Measure

Choose the field to display on the x-axis. Options include:

Using Time or Dates displays task data over time.
Show Filter by the selected measure option.
Sort by

Show the x-axis field values in the selected sort order. Options include:

  • Default: varies based on the selected x-axis field.
    • Statuses appear in the order defined in their respective locations.
    • Label and Dropdown Custom Fields appear in values order as defined in Custom Field Manager.
    • Date fields including Date Custom Fields appear chronologically.
  • Alphabetical: Sort the x-axis from A-Z or Z-A.
  • Values: Sort the x-axis value from highest to lowest or lowest to highest.

The manual sorting option was replaced with the default sort option in February 2025.

X-Axis is Time or Date

This option displays task data over time. Learn more


 

 Time period

Include task data from the selected time range. Options include:

  • All available dates
  • This year
  • This month
  • This week
  • Rolling period
  • Range
Group by

Display x-axis values in the selected time scale. Options include:

  • Days
  • Weeks
  • Months
Plot the change in values

Display the amount of change per day as the y-axis value.

For example, your data includes:

  • 0 tasks in progress on Monday
  • 5 tasks in progress on Tuesday
  • 3 tasks in progress on Wednesday.

With this setting enabled, the y-axis shows:

  • 5 for Tuesday
  • -2 for Wednesday
Y-Axis

 		Measure

Options include:
Group by

Display bars with stacked segments representing a specific field.

You can't group by the same field as you're using to measure on the y-axis.

For example, grouping by Status shows the total number of tasks (y-axis) in each status on a given date (x-axis).

Options include:

  • None
  • Assignee
  • Custom Fields
  • Dates
  • Formula fields
  • Priority
  • Status
  • Status type
  • Tags
  • Task type
Show tasks with no group by field set

Show tasks where the group by option is not set.

For example, when grouping by Assignee, enabling this option includes unassigned tasks in the chart.
Filters Show closed

Include closed tasks in your data.
Show archived

Include archived tasks.
Filter Apply filters to show tasks that currently meet the specified criteria.

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