Chart Notifications

Owned by Karen Hogan (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jun 21, 2021
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Drill Path Notification

In pi, you can immediately see if a chart has a drill path. If this icon is displayed in the top left of a chart cell, you will be able to drill down on this chart.

Help text

If help text has been added in the Chart Configuration screen

this icon will be displayed at the top of a chart cell on the dashboard. Users will able to view the information by clicking the icon and then selecting the ‘Chart info’ tab, please refer to the following section for further details.

Alert Notification

If an orange warning triangle  is shown at the top left of a cell, click the alert button to view what the alert relates to.

The Notification button has three tabs.

Notifications

The first tab, Notifications, will show details about drill paths, parent charts, filters and any warnings such as labels not being displayed correctly.

The orange triangle is a warning to show that, on this chart, Labels are hidden. This means that some charts do not have enough room to display the Labels as the text would overlap. Making the charts larger (for example viewing in full screen mode) will often enable all the Labels to show, in which case this notification would no longer be displayed. 

Chart Info tab – This tab, provides more information about the chart such as the data source/ category that the chart belongs to, any help text entered and the URL to embed this chart into your other applications.

The Chart Info tab will also provide you with additional information when you drill into a chart such as which drill level the chart is on and which part of the chart was used to drill down. In the following example, we can see that a user drilled down on the 31-40 Age Group.

Debug

This tab shows information about the chart that can be used to debug and/or improve performance of the chart and can be split into three sections as shown below. 

SQL. This is the SQL that the Dashboard has automatically generated to produce the chart you have requested combining the objects, table joins, chart filters, sorts and also any category object filters, unless Manual SQL override has been used.

Performance. This is a breakdown of the tasks the Dashboard goes through to generate the chart, with timings against each section and an overall total.