Charts and Sights

AJ_vf

Is there a way to get a Smartsheet Chart in a Sight?

Shaine Greenwood

Hello AJ,

 

We don't have functionality for including a chart in a Sight but I'll add your vote for this to our enhancement request list for further consideration.

 

With that being said, if you have charting software or wish to use the charts labs integration with Smartsheet (disclaimer: labs apps are experimental and subject to breakage or removal without notice), you an take a screenshot of the chart you construct and add it to your Sight via the image widget.

 

Keep in mind that it will be a static image, and not a dynamically updating chart. 

 

More on the labs apps can be found here: https://smartsheetlabs.com/

Chuck Muirhead

This was an immediate request from many members who purchased this feature.  While we actively use sights in our company, it does not add a level of value that supercedes other options.  When you have a product called "Sights", the assumption is data visibilty.  without integrated charting or graphs, for me, it missed the mark and I have been hoping for an update to meet this need.  I do inlcude "Pictures" from a third party business Intelligence app, but this means I need to take data from SmartSheet and import it into my app, then import an image from my app back into SmartSheet Sights. This costs time, which is money.  I will be weighing my Sights ROI at my next payment cycle. 

 

I am including a picture of our current Sight with chart images.

Brad Jones

Fully agree here.  The ability to add live charts to the sights is truly critical.  

 

The fact of human nature is that we are attracted to pictures.  They are pretty, they provide instant context, and they provide instant perspective.  A flat chart of numbers does not do much for most people because it takes time to digest.

 

+1 vote to charts within sights please.  That is THE way to go.

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Brad—

 

Got your vote down for dynamic charts in Sights as well.

Yoann

Please add my vote to this one too, clearly a "must have" option

Shaine Greenwood

@Chuck—sorry I didn't include you in my last post, I've passed your feedback on to our Product team. Thanks for your input!

 

@Yoann—got your vote down as well.

Joanne Pridham

Please add my vote too.

Jared Plucknett

Please add my vote

Shaine Greenwood

Joanne and Jared—

 

I've got your votes down as well; thanks!

Phil Mawson

Please add my vote, thanks

 

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Phil et all,

 

We've got a new way to submit feature enhancement requests. Check out the announcement on this for more information: https://community.smartsheet.com/announcement/new-way-submit-your-feature-requests

Sara Morris

+1 vote for dynamic charts in sights.

 

As a work around, I have been doing the screenshots and inserting the image, but I also edited the interaction and included a link to the chart I have in smartsheet labs so it is possible to see the current chart. 

KathyH

Agree. The whole point of a dashboard is to visualize data. Not having capabilities for charting misses the mark by a wide margin.

jdawson

+1 vote for dynamic charts in sights.

Trying to sell this to my management team and having to export everything to chart is not the best sell. They like idea of dashboard reporting data from sheets as a visual.

Sasan

Thank you all for your votes and your vote made an impact.  We are currently working on adding and introducing a native and dynamic Chart widget.  We will be showing a sneak preview in Engage, coming up in September 18-20.