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Add a Rich Filter Flexi Charts gadget to your dashboard (Learn more on how to create a simple dashboard).
Move the gadget to the right-hand column of your dashboard by dragging and dropping it.
There are several fields you should configure in the gadget config form (for the moment, we'll leave the Chart type as the default Donut type):
Rich filter: Set this to your rich filter.
Breakdown by > Statistic type: We'll get this chart to show a breakdown by reporters, so select Reporter in the Statistic type dropdown.
Value: For each reporter, let's show the number of story points' worth of issues they have reported. Choose Story Points.
Your gadget config form should look like the following image. Check it is correct, then click Submit.
Your Rich Filter Flexi Charts gadget should look like the following image.
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Suppose the selected Statistic type has options for which the matching issues are equal to zero for the selected Value. In that case, those options are still greyed out in the legend (and quick tables, as you'll see later) but are not included in the chart. For example, in the donut chart above, Chris and Will have no story points for their issues. |
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You can hover over the columns/slices to display exact values as tooltips. This can be especially useful in donut charts when the gadget display is too narrow to show the labels seen in previous screenshots.
You can click the values or their bars/slices to load lists of all the associated issues in a separate tab.
Create two-dimensional charts
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Add another Rich Filter Flexi Charts gadget to your dashboard (Click here to learn more on how to add gadgets).
Drag and drop the gadget to the right column of your dashboard. Later, we'll add other features to the left column.
Set the following field values in the gadget config form:
Rich filter: Set this to the same rich filter your other Flexi chart gadget uses.
Chart type: Choose a Stacked bar.
Primary breakdown > Statistic type: Choose Priority in this dropdown.
Secondary breakdown > Statistic type: choose Resolved / Unresolved in this dropdown.
Value: We'll show the number of issues for each combination of priority and resolved / unresolved combination. Choose Issue Count in this dropdown.
Your Rich Filter Flexi Chartsgadget config form should look like the following image. Check it is correct, then click Submit.
Your gadget should look like this.
Filter charts using your controller
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Add a Rich Filter Controller gadget to your dashboard using the Add a Gadget side panel.
Drag and drop it to the left-hand column of the dashboard if it hasn't already been placed there.
In the controller config form, set the Rich filter to the same rich Rich filter your other gadgets are based on, and click Submit.
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Try applying some filters in the controller. Note how they filter issues inboth flexi chart gadgets.
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Bear in mind that controllers filter the information shown in all gadgets based on using the same rich filter as them! |
Display quick tables
Flexi charts have quick tables available to provide details of the data summarized in the chart. Quick tables are displayed by clicking the Show table button in the bottom-right corner of the gadget.
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Click the Show tableTable button to display a tabular representation of your data.
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Table button again to hide the quick table. |
As with any other table in rich filters, you can sort the data in a quick table by different columns by clicking the column headings. Click a heading multiple times to toggle between ascending and descending order.
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Tables generated from two-dimensional charts can be sorted by ascending and descending column values, row values, and totals , by clicking the arrow controls in the relevant column and row headings.
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You After sorting has been applied, you can clear all the applied sorting in a two-dimensional quick table by clicking the x button that appears in the top-left corner of the table after sorting has been applied. |
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In a similar manner . Similar to the charts that from which the quick tables are generated from, you can click the header and cell values to load up lists of all the associated issues in a separate tab. |
Further exercises
In order to To add further power to the dashboard, in our final example, we added a Rich Filter Results gadget in the left-hand column, below the Rich Filter Controller gadget, based on the same rich Rich filter (Create a simple dashboard that explains how to do this). To complete the tutorial, we'd like you to You can complete this step on your own dashboard to complete the tutorial.
Your dashboard should look like this:
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As a further exercise, we also encourage you to explore using smart filters in flexi charts. Smart filters allow you to filter and group your issues using configurable smart clauses based on JQL and also have the advantage that, when defined, they become available for use in other places. This includes statistic types in statistics and charts , and columns in views. Use our Smart filters in statistics and charts exercise as a starting point, and try adding a smart filter as a statistic type in a new flexi chart gadget.
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This is the last topic in our the Fundamentals article series. Each one works as a standalone topic, so you can jump to specific topics of interest if you missed any , or want to revisit ones you've already covered.
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