How to Implement a Scrollable Display in a Card's Horizontal Bar Graph

kaita
kaita Member
edited April 29 in Cards, Dashboards, Stories

I would like to achieve the following with a card in Domo. Please tell me the settings required for this.

The card's graph type is a horizontal bar graph. When displaying the horizontal bar graph on the dashboard, all items are shown, as in the image below, making the text and bars small and difficult to read. Therefore, I want to display them without changing the text size, and make it possible to scroll to view the items that are cut off.

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  • JasonAltenburg
    JasonAltenburg Coach
    Answer ✓

    You can somewhat do this with "Show as" Trellis Categories in the "Trellis/tiered date settings" option.

    Note that there will be a point at which Domo is going to try and compress the vertical scroll of this, or too many categories will simply not look good on the vertical scroll of the card.

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  • MichelleH
    MichelleH Coach

    @kaita I don't recommend using that chart type for a series with so many values. Bar graphs are best suited for comparing relative bar sizes, which requires seeing all values at once. If you're looking for a way to display all dollar amounts in a scrollable format, a table chart (mega table) is a better option.

  • kaita
    kaita Member

    @MichelleH
    Thank you, MichelleH, for your guidance. There were errors in my explanation and missing information. The reason I want to use a horizontal bar graph is to intuitively compare and confirm all category amounts in descending order of size. However, in the current Domo setup, displaying all categories on the dashboard makes it difficult to read. Therefore, I would like to fix the size of the text and bars and make it possible to scroll to view the categories that are cut off. Currently, in Domo, is there no way to enable scrolling with the horizontal bar graph type, other than using a table chart?

  • JasonAltenburg
    JasonAltenburg Coach
    Answer ✓

    You can somewhat do this with "Show as" Trellis Categories in the "Trellis/tiered date settings" option.

    Note that there will be a point at which Domo is going to try and compress the vertical scroll of this, or too many categories will simply not look good on the vertical scroll of the card.

    image.png image.png
  • DavidChurchman
    DavidChurchman Coach
    1. There's an idea you should upvote to make this easier: https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/56705/scroll-bar-in-bar-charts?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=scroll+bar+chart
    2. And a similar conversation:
      https://community-forums.domo.com/main/discussion/comment/100948#Comment_100948

    Please 💡/💖/👍/😊 this post if you read it and found it helpful.

    Please accept the answer if it solved your problem.

  • kaita
    kaita Member

    @JasonAltenburg

    Thank you for the clear explanation and the image. I set the "Display as Trellis Category" as you suggested, but the scroll bar did not appear (I tried with a grouped bar chart). Could you please tell me what type of chart is shown in the image?

  • kaita
    kaita Member

    @DavidChurchman

    Thank you for the valuable information. I have upvoted the idea in the provided URL. I look forward to seeing it implemented.

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