Widget Settings in Dashboard

Widget Settings in Dashboard

Widget Settings

Overview

Widget Settings allow users to customize how dashboard widgets appear and behave. Users can modify chart colors, control displayed data, configure axis scaling, format values, and customize fonts and widget styling.

These settings help tailor dashboard visualizations to highlight the most relevant insights while improving readability and presentation quality.


Widget customization is especially useful for creating cleaner reports, improving visual consistency, and presenting data more effectively to stakeholders.

When to use it:
Use Widget Settings when you want to personalize dashboard visualizations, improve readability, or align widgets with your reporting and branding requirements.

IdeaUse consistent colors and scaling across widgets to make dashboards easier to compare and interpret.

Key Use Cases

  • Customize chart appearance and styling
  • Highlight important insights visually
  • Improve dashboard readability
  • Standardize dashboard design across reports
  • Adjust chart scaling for better analysis

How to Use Widget Settings

How to Access Widget Settings

  1. Open a dashboard
  2. Hover over the widget you want to customize
  3. Click the three-dot menu (⋮) or Settings icon
  4. Select Widget Settings


A settings panel will open where widget configurations can be updated.

Color Customization (Gauge Charts)

Gauge charts use color segments to visually represent satisfaction levels or score ranges.

Users can customize colors for:

  • Not Satisfied
  • Neutral
  • Satisfied

For example:

  • Red → Not Satisfied
  • Orange → Neutral
  • Green → Satisfied

This helps users quickly interpret chart performance visually.

Users can also use the Reset to Default option to restore original colors.

Select or Remove Categories

For charts with multiple response options, users can control which categories appear in the visualization.

Available response options are displayed with checkboxes:

  • Select a checkbox to display a category
  • Uncheck a checkbox to remove it from the chart

The chart updates automatically based on selected categories.

This helps focus analysis on only the most relevant data points.

X-Axis Labels

The X-axis displays labels representing response categories in charts.

Labels automatically update based on selected categories. Long labels may appear angled to improve readability, and removed categories are automatically removed from the axis.

This ensures the chart only displays labels relevant to visible data.

Y-Axis Configuration

The Y-axis controls how numerical values appear in charts. Users can configure visibility and scaling options.

Available controls include:

  • Show or Hide Y-axis
  • Show or Hide Y-axis Title

Users can also configure different scaling methods.

Y-Axis Scaling Options

Widget Settings support three scaling methods:

Auto (Fit to Data)
Automatically adjusts the axis range based on dataset values. This is useful when values vary significantly.

Fixed (0–100%)
Locks the Y-axis between 0 and 100. This is ideal for percentage-based charts where consistent scaling across widgets is important.

Custom Scaling
Allows users to manually define minimum and maximum Y-axis values.

For example:

  • Min: 0
  • Max: 15


This helps zoom into specific ranges for deeper analysis.
InfoFixed scaling is useful when comparing multiple charts side-by-side.

Decimal Place Settings

Users can control how many decimal places appear in displayed values.

For example:

  • 0 → 8%
  • 1 → 8.2%
  • 2 → 8.19%


This helps balance readability and precision in reports.

Data Value Display

Widget Settings allow users to control how data values appear directly on charts.

Users can configure:

  • Show Data Values
  • Value Position
  • Orientation (Horizontal or Vertical)

This improves chart readability and helps emphasize important metrics.

Font Settings

Users can customize text appearance within widgets to improve readability and align dashboards with presentation styles.

Available options include:

  • Font Family
  • Font Size
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline

These settings apply to labels, values, and widget text elements.

Font Color

Font colors for labels and data values can also be customized.

Users can:

  • Select colors from the palette
  • Apply brand colors
  • Improve readability based on widget background colors

This helps maintain consistent dashboard styling.

Widget Border Color

Users can customize the border color surrounding widgets.

This is useful for:

  • Matching dashboard themes
  • Applying brand styling
  • Highlighting important widgets visually

Widget Background Color

Widget backgrounds can also be customized using available theme colors.
This helps visually group related widgets and improve dashboard presentation.

Reset to Default

Most customization sections include a Reset to Default option.

This restores:

  • Original colors
  • Default fonts
  • Default scaling
  • System styling settings


This is useful when users want to quickly remove custom formatting.

Save Changes

After updating widget settings:

  1. Click Save Changes
  2. The widget updates immediately

If changes should not be applied, users can click Cancel instead.


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