Reading a widget

How this is counted

Beside each widget's title, the i button holds How this is counted: the rule in a sentence or two, for example that a person is counted once however many activities they took part in, the date the figures are as of, and the filters used. It opens when you point at it, when you reach it with the Tab key, or when you tap it, and Escape closes it.

Show as table or chart

A widget's ⋯ menu offers Show as table when the widget has a chart (or Show as map on a map). The table shows the same figures, the counting rule in full and the filters used, in words; Show as chart turns it back. A widget that is already a table or a list has no such item. Your choice is remembered for you, for that widget on that page.

Every figure opens its list

Select a number, a part of a chart or a row to open the list of records it counts. The list holds as many records as the figure says. Beside a key figure, a change pill says whether it went up or down against the compared period, in words as well as in colour.

Small groups

Where a breakdown has a group of fewer than 10 people, the group is marked and the widget says so: a share of so few people says little, and could point to someone. The number can be changed in Settings → Dashboard.

When a widget does not fit

A widget never cuts a row in half. A table or a list shows only the rows that fit whole, then Show all (n) in the ⋯ menu opens every one; when not even one row fits, the table scrolls inside the widget under its header. A bar chart draws one labelled bar per item, eight at most: past eight it shows the first seven and Other (n), and Show as table lists every one. A chart with too little room to be read, on a small screen, shows its table instead, and turns back into a chart when there is room. Your own choice of table or chart is never overridden.

Pace and dates

Pace reads in words, for example 91% of targets reached · 95% expected by today. A project with no target on any of its indicators says No targets set and draws no bar; one with targets but no reading in the period says No readings in this period. Dates are written with the month in words, for example 2 Nov 2026, so they cannot be read the wrong way round.