I. Intro
In a Base dashboard, you can add a combo chart, which allows you to combine two different chart types—such as a column chart, line chart, area chart, or scatter chart—onto a single chart For example, you can pair a column chart with a line chart to display both sales volume and growth rate simultaneously. This approach helps you analyze data from multiple perspectives, compare trends, and uncover potential patterns more effectively.
Note:
- The instructions in this article also apply to chart blocks such as column charts, line charts, bar charts, and scatter charts.
- Charts can be viewed on the mobile app (Lark version 7.32 or above), but adding or editing them isn't supported.
II. Steps
Add a combo chart
- Open the base and click Dashboard in the left navigation bar.
- Click Add Block and select Combo.
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Configure a combo chart
After adding a combo chart, you can configure its chart type, data, and style.
- You can configure the following settings under the Setup tab:
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- Data source: You can select any table in the current base as the data source for the block. If your Lark plan supports multiple data sources, you can select Multi-source mode to select multiple tables to be used as the data source.
- Data range: You can select a view from the table or set a filter scope to filter for the data you need.
- Chart type: There is only one type of combo chart. You can change the chart type here as needed.
- Stacked: You can choose none, standard, or 100% for stacking.
- Line type: You can choose line (default), smooth, or step.
- Themes: You can change the theme color for the chart.
- Options: You can choose whether to display the legend, data labels, axes, and gridlines.
- X-axis (category): You can select the data fields to be displayed from the source table.
- Y-axis (field): You can select Number of records (default) or Field summary.
- Number of records: The number of records is added up.
- Field summary: This can only be selected if there are number fields or formula fields in the source table. The available calculation methods include Sum, Max, Min, or Average.
- Note: For each field, you can select the chart type and whether to display the axis labels on the left or right.
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- Group by: If this option is selected, the data will be divided into different groups and data processing will then be carried out within the groups. For more details, see Use dashboards in Base.
- Show empty cells as: You can choose zero or a gap for displaying empty cells.
- You can configure the following settings under the Customize tab:
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- Background: You can set a custom background color for the chart.
- Font color and size: You can set the color and size of all text in the chart.
- Axis title settings: You can set the title as well as the text color, formatting, and so on for the two axes.
- Series: Series refers to each data module.
- Format: You can choose a chart type, including column chart, line chart, area chart, or scatter chart. You can also set the fill color, opacity, pattern, border, and so on for each series.
- Data point style: This can be used to mark key data in each series (such as the maximum value and minimum value).
- Show data labels: If this option is selected, you can set the label text, position, text style, and so on.
- Legend: You can set the position and text style for the legend.
- Horizontal axis: You can set whether the data labels and axis lines of the horizontal axis are displayed, and adjust label orientation as well as text style.
- Vertical axis: You can set whether the data labels and axis lines of the vertical axis are displayed, and adjust label orientation as well as text style. You can also define maximum and minimum values.
- Gridlines and ticks: You can set the gridlines for both axes and the ticks for the vertical axis, as well as their colors and thickness.
After completing the settings, click Confirm in the lower-right corner to add the chart to your dashboard.
Manage combo charts
Click the ⋮ icon in the upper-right corner of the block to configure, rename, change title settings, duplicate, copy to other dashboards, delete, change its background color, add to Workplace, or move to a layout block.
You can also select the block and drag the lower-right corner to adjust the block size or drag the top of the block to move it.
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III. FAQs