"Chart" View Rename Option and Changing Colors

Good morning Wrike Community!

I wanted to send out the want to be able to name the charts you can create in the "Chart" view in Wrike. For those of us that create charts for high level viewing, and want some stuff be self-explanatory about a chart in being able to name a specific chart so that it reflects the type of data that it is showing would be wonderful. For instance, I have a project that I set the "Chart" view as the default view, and in it I have created 3 different charts. All of my charts are titled "Task: All - Status", and of course that is the nomenclature of the report view I selected when creating the charts.

The other thing that would be awesome to get would be the ability to change the color of the pie chart slices to whatever colors you want them to be. Specifically, the colors do reflect the color of the statuses I gave my tasks, but once I made the chart to reflect several different categories at the same time, the color selected for the slices became random. The issue that I ran into is the statuses I made for "Addressed" and "Not Addressed" both were the same color, and I had to consolidate a category in order to get them back to two separate and distinct colors.

Thank you!

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Vladimir Bugay

Hey, Ian , and thank you for your feedback! Have you tried to use new dashboards from the Labs to achieve the same you're doing with the chart view? You can arrange and rename widgets there, while the chart view is designed more for exploratory data analysis.

You can adjust the colors used on the charts by changing the colors assigned to the corresponding values of custom fields. In that case, slices representing specific values should have colors assigned to them. Does it help?

Ian Edwards

Hello @[Deleted User] and thank you for your response!

Let me test out what you are referring to in your response to my post to see if that works for me, and I will respond again to your response letting you know my assessment of it. It sounds like it will do everything I need for right now.

All of that being said, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea to still include the features I am in want of in the "Chart" view in Wrike, as it would only make the feature more advanced and therefore more potentially useful.

Thank you!

Elaine McDonagh

Thanks @Ian Edwards, noted. Do indeed keep us posted here 👍

Karen Ehrenworth

I am using the new dashboard and need to change the colors in the pie chart as I need to distinguish the difference between two data points, they are both blue making the chart and legend are confusing. Is there a way to change the colors?

Vladimir Bugay

Karen, what field do you break by? Is it status, CF, or something else? I'm asking because we respect colors set for statuses and CF values so if you want a value represented by a different color on a chart you simply need to change color assigned to that value

Karen Ehrenworth

Hi Vladimir, Please define what CF stands for. The fields are broken out by location, Chicago and NYC are the same color blue. Is there a way to change the colors?

Vladimir Bugay

Karen, CF stands for a custom field. It looks like you have a Location custom field. Please check this article to see how you can color code them
https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005219362-Color-Coding-Custom-Fields

Aaron Atkinson

Just in case anyone at Wrike is investigating the need or reason for naming charts in chart view.

We have a folder containing projects, and find the folder's chart view to be a fantastic place to get an overview of those inner projects together.
We have charts showing all active tasks that break by project (then groups by status) one chart shows all tasks, one filters to show tasks due this week, and another filters to show tasks due today.

Sadly, all charts are named "Task: Active - Project" with the two filtered ones showing "(filtered)" at the bottom, but no indication of what the filter is or any distinction between the two filtered charts.

Given that the renaming functionality exists in dashboards, I would love to open that up in chart view so we can slap whatever label we want to help us identify it better.

Vladimir Bugay

Aaron, thanks for your feedback and the use case! Happy to hear that the chart view is useful for you and we'll definitely take your feedback into account planning further improvements.

Jamie Brown

I've found an additional use case where editing custom fields isn't helpful. We have a chart showing distribution of projects by assignee, and there is NO way to set the colors of the individuals showing in the chart. It is also somewhat of a throw-off to select "traditional red" as a color and see it show up as more rose-colored on the dashboards.

Rohan V

Hi @Jamie Brown 👋 Thanks for taking the time to share your comment. We understand your concern about not being able to set the colors for individuals on the chart, especially regarding the use of the color red. I'll be forwarding your comment to the relevant team to look into. If there are any updates in the future, I'll be sure to let you know 👍