Complete List of Reporting Widgets for OnePlan Dashboards

An area chart combines elements of a line chart and a bar chart. The x-axis typically represents the category or time interval, while the y-axis shows numerical values. The area beneath the line is filled with color to emphasize the magnitude of the data.

When to Use an Area Chart: Use it to visualize changes, compare contributions with stacked charts, or highlight cumulative data. It’s ideal for clear trends but can get cluttered with too many categories.

When to Use a Bubble Chart: Use it to compare relationships, highlight importance, or identify patterns. It's effective for multidimensional data but can be tricky to interpret with too many bubbles.

When to Use a Line Chart: Line charts are ideal for showing continuous data and emphasizing trends but may not be suitable for categorical comparisons.

When to Use a Bar Chart: Bar charts are great for clear comparisons but might not work well for showing continuous data or detailed trends over time.

When to Use a Stacked Bar Chart: Stacked bar charts great tools compare totals, visualize proportions, or track changes over time, but can become hard to read if there are too many segments.

When to Use a Stacked Bar 100% Chart: These charts are ideal for comparing proportions, tracking distribution changes, and emphasizing contributions, but but may not work well for analyzing total values or detailed trends.

When to Use a Column Chart: Column charts are useful for comparing values across categorues, highlighting differences or trends, and tracking changes over time. However, they might not work well for large datasets or continuous data.

When to Use a Stacked Column Chart: Use a stacked column chart to compare overall totals while showing the breakdown of components, highlight proportions within categories, and track changes in composition over time or across groups. Note that stacked column charts can become cluttered with too many segments.

When to Use a Stacked Column 100% Chart: Use a stacked column 100% chart to compare percentage distributions across categories, analyze changes in relative contributions over time or between groups, or focus on proportions rather than overall totals. These charts are less suited for examining absolute values.

When to Use a Pie Chart: Pie charts are great for illustrating proportions or percentages within a dataset, and highlighting parts of a whole. Pie charts are best for straightforward comparisons but can become hard to read with too many slices or similar-sized segments.

When to Use a Donut Chart: Donut charts are ideal for visualizing proportions or percentages, similar to pie charts, with the added advantage of displaying extra information, such as totals or categories, within the central gap.

When to Use a Combo Chart: A combo chart is especially useful when analyzing time-phased data, like a Financial Plan, where you want to see how multiple metrics relate to each other across months or quarters. By combining chart types, it becomes easier to spot patterns, correlations, or discrepancies between metrics at a glance.