Be able to use text custom field for building charts

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#1

Hi there,

I’d like to be able to create charts on project dashboards, were tasks’ text custom fields can be used as a axis. For example: building a chart that shows how many times a certain text field appears on tasks (which would be a custom text field), as a top 10.

Is it possible?

#2

Hi,

This is not possible, not sure it ever would. Your use case makes more sense for a finite number of options, which a drop down has.

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#3

Thanks Bastien for the answer.
I wanted to draw a chart that shows time spent (custom field) on tasks per client (custom field also). We have near 100 clients, so I can’t use a dropdown menu, or is there a way to import a list of field content?

It would be a column bar chart with those info:
Client 1: 10 days
Client 2: 8 days
…
Client 10: 1 day

#4

If you have less than 100 a dropdown would be best, look at 💡 Create a custom fields with many options using the CSV importer

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#5

Seems like a nice trick, thanks Bastien!

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#8

@Rocky_Lesch what problem do you have? The initial request is not possible, but I shared a workaround.