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title: "Bar/Column Charts"
slug: "barcolumn-charts"
updated: 2025-08-19T19:09:41Z
published: 2025-08-19T19:09:41Z
canonical: "docs.foundationhub.com/barcolumn-charts"
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Bar/Column Charts

To create a bar chart, follow the instructions to open the Insights window in Creating Insights. Then, navigate to the top left corner of the screen and select the chart image:**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022636925.png)**

1. Choose a variable you would like to display:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/2025-08-15_13-11-47.PNG)

2. This will create the following chart:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755278604645.png)**

3. To modify this chart, select a secondary and tertiary variable from the drop-downs on the left.

- To sort the data by a date, select the “Date” option from the left and drag it into the “View By” box.

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022846712.png)**

- Once you have dropped the “Date” variable into the “View By” box, drop down menus should appear:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755278985198.png)**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755279029079.png)

- You can change these to fit the purpose of your Visual. Here, we will select “Month” instead of “Year”:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755279646155.png)

- You can also change the time frame of the data. To do so, navigate to the “Filters” option in the toolbar.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755279722614.png)

- Selecting the arrow next to “Last Year”, we can change the timeframe by selecting “Period”:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755279943714.png)**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755279996457.png)

- If you want to use a tertiary variable, select a variable from the list on the left and drag it into the “Stack by” box:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022737686.png)

- This will then separate the Available Balances by their fund types and the date that the fund was last updated to create the following chart:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1755281031676.png)

4. For some Visuals, Analytics may offer assistance. For the example above, it has suggested the following:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/2025-08-19_14-47-02.PNG)

- Use the drop-down menu to alter the proposed changes:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/2025-08-19_14-48-01.PNG)

- You can either click apply, and Analytics will make the selected changes to your Visual, or you can return to the list of variables. If you click apply, a variable will populate in the “View By” box:

**![](blob:https://portal.document360.io/5e284eac-b333-4159-834c-748455799f54)**

- Good Data may suggest more changes and may alter your variables if you accept:![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022671175.png)![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022655288.png)
- If GoodData makes an unexpected change that you are unhappy with, simply click the undo button in the top right corner and it will return to the previous version:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022697035.png)**

- You can manually instruct GoodData to compare data using the “Filters” option and selecting “Compare the period with”:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/579d62e3-92d9-438c-a119-f0014c5f7cc0/Images/Documentation/image-1689022714631.png)**