Tip #1235: Create personal charts in Unified Interface

Neon sign "personal space" on black background

Nasty rumors (and this official page from Microsoft) claim that you cannot create personal charts from Unified Interface. This is not true anymore. From any view in your unified interface model-driven app, click “show chart” then under the more options (…) menu, click “+ new.” This will launch the classic chart builder in a new […]

Tip #1102: Use hatch style in your charts and dashboards if you have color blind employees

The Broad museum building architecture in Los Angeles

One of the silent minorities in business are color blind people. Since dashboards rely on color coding to tell the different series apart, decoding those charts can be challenging for some users. Now, the palette of colors that comes out-of-the-box are generally chosen so people who have a form color blindness will still be able […]

Tip #1099: Add Annotations to Charts

Annotate chart

After a brief interruption, we continue the chart week fortnight by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson. Do you need more descriptions in your charts, or maybe add a little corporate branding, look no further than the Advanced Chart Editor for the XrmToolBox. You can add more text to your charts via a node called annotations. […]