Canvas Native Charts

The Chart component allows you to incorporate charts into your Canvas, providing an intuitive and interactive way to visualize data. Charts can dynamically interact with other native Canvas components, such as comboboxes, enhancing the user experience.

Creating a new Canvas chart

You can choose from several chart types to best visualize your data, including Bar, Line, Waterfall, and Pie charts. Each chart type offers unique ways to highlight trends, comparisons, and relationships within your data. Below, you’ll find detailed information on how to create and format each chart type, along with guidance on when to use them for the most effective presentation of your insights.

Charts' default naming

When charts are added to the Canvas, they are automatically assigned sequential names, following a numeric pattern for easier identification. The first chart is named "Chart1," the second "Chart2," and so on, with each subsequent chart receiving an incremented identifier. To rename any chart, navigate to the Format tab and change Name (ID).

Editing an existing Canvas chart

To modify an existing chart, navigate to the right-side panel and select the Data tab. Then, click the Edit Chart button to open the Edit Chart Dialog, where you can adjust the chart's settings, update data sources, and customize its appearance as needed.

Formatting an existing Canvas chart object

When you click on a native Chart object on your Canvas, a Format dialog opens on the right side of the screen. In the Format tab, you can edit properties such as name, width, height, background color, radius, border, padding, and visibility.

The Visibility feature enables you to control whether a chart should be visible to your end user or not. By default, the chart's visibility is an Expression with the value "=TRUE", but you can use a variable or another Expression, e.g., FALSE, to change (hide) it. When you hide a chart, the remaining components dynamically adjust to occupy the vacant space. If you wish to maintain the hidden chart’s space and preserve your Canvas layout, you can utilize the Keep space option.

To delete your chart, you can either choose the Delete chart option in the Format tab, right-click on your chart and select Delete, or select the chart and press the Delete key on your keyboard. You can also use the right-click to copy, cut, or paste your chart.

When you save your Canvas, any changes made to the charts will also be saved.

Charts size limits (Min/Max)

The Charts in Canvas have defined minimum and maximum dimensions, and entering values outside these limits will not resize the Charts. The table below provides detailed information on these height and width limits.

Component Minimum width Maximum width Minimum height Maximum height
Chart 8 px 1600 px 8 px 1200 px

Video example

Watch the video below for a practical example of what you can do with the charts in Canvas:

Updated September 29, 2025