🎉 Charts for all - expanding access to project insights

[2percentsilk]

We're excited to announce that all projects (beta) users can access custom current charts to help visualize their work! Head over to the Insights tab for your projects to try it out 👀

If you're on a Free plan, you'll have access to up to 2 saved charts for your private projects and unlimited configurations for public projects!

We're also expanding access to time-based charts to allow organizations to visualize trends over time 📈

• All Enterprise organizations have been enabled and will have unlimited access to current and time-based charts.
• Team organizations are being onboarded over the next couple weeks and time-based charts will be available as a preview feature.
  • Good news - If you're already using projects (beta) for your Team, time-based charts should be available as a preview to you right now!

Thank you for all of your feedback during the limited beta and we hope you'll continue to share your thoughts with us

[2percentsilk]

Hi there - I'd encourage you to share this feedback in the Profile discussions topic so that the Achievements team can see it!

[omaskery]

Hi, really excited about this feature set, thanks for this work 🎉! Unfortunately, we don't have seem to have access to time-based charts, even though we're an organization on the Team plan that has an existing Project?

[jayspadie]

Hi @omaskery, thanks for getting in touch to let us know. I see that infinite-worlds is on a Team plan, and our records show you do have an existing project. I'll follow up on our side to see if there were any issues with this particular org or other priorities applied for early Team org onboarding to the Insights platform (i.e., with identifying active projects (beta) users). Sorry for the wait, but these should be coming soon regardless. Please reply to this thread in a couple of weeks if time-based charts continue to be missing. Thanks again.

[jayspadie]

Hey @omaskery , would you mind checking again and let us know? We've been investigating and I flipped a flag that should expose historical time-based Insights charts in your org now. We may have missed a few orgs in our onboarding automation, so thank you for bringing this to our attention!

[omaskery]

Hi @jayspadie I have the default CFD chart available now, hurrah! Thanks for looking into this for us :) Have a good day!

[jayspadie]

Great! Thanks for confirming @omaskery. Now we just need to identify and fix any other orgs that we may have missed. 😄

[democat3457]

Is it possible to have the x-axis as a title and the y-axis as a custom field value? Also, what about sorting the x-axis by descending or ascending y-axis? Our use case is that we have a leaderboard-style format for some cards in our project, and we would really like to show a visual comparison/ranking between those cards.

[den4iksiniak]

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[2percentsilk]

Unfortunately, we don't support any of those customizations currently but will keep them in mind as we continue to improve upon the space!

[samctrumpet]

Hey @2percentsilk, love this feature and I can see it being really useful!

Is it possible currently to include archived cards on the charts? E.g we move our cards to Done and then archive them at the end of the sprint, but they don't appear in the chart.

[2percentsilk]

Not as of yet but your feedback is heard! Out of curiosity, would you want ALL archived charts to appear or do you have some notion of "Archived within X days" that you'd like to configure?

[samctrumpet]

Hey @2percentsilk thanks for your reply!

I'm guessing when a card is archived, the date it was archived also gets stored in the process. So if we looked back over a specific date range we would see any cards archived in that range too.

[danielprehealth]

Love this feature! Any target timeline for the time-based charts to become more widely available, including to organizations not yet on a paid Team plan? Would love to have access to this!

[jayspadie]

Great. Thanks for confirming. With regard to the other feedback:

1. You'll probably find that you can filter what you want using the filter bar, then save that as part of your chart configuration. With your example, you could specify iteration:@current or some other specific iteration. Alternatively, you could exclude status with -status:Backlog,Archive. Keep in mind though that filtering, even for historical charts, filters on the current item state. So, for example, if you choose to exclude items with Backlog and Archive status, then it will chart all others over time that are currently match that filter, regardless of their status in the past.
2. Yup, you found a bug that I was just chatting about with the Insights team here. Apparently custom column names containing some special characters, like brackets in your example, aren't handled well. If you want to use the sum aggregate and willing to try renaming your column, you could probably work around it until it's fixed. Sorry about that.

[danielprehealth]

1. That does we want, thanks! And noted about how filtering works - that makes sense.
2. I changed from bracket to parentheses, and that fixed it, thanks!

Awesome work, loving these features, thanks!

[jayspadie]

Perfect, thanks! Also we have a fix coming out soon (likely later today) that will correctly handle Y-axis aggregate column names containing brackets. The same code was used for group_by column names with brackets, but it was missed for aggregate column names. As an aside, there can still be problems with column names containing an emoji, but not with column values containing an emoji. Thanks again.

[alexsteixeira]

Hi @danielprehealth, thanks for your patience here. The team is still investigating why the feature wasn't enabled as it should have been, but it's been manually enabled now. Please let us know if you can see historical time-based charts now. Thanks.

Same problem here. We just upgraded our organization to the Team plan (paid) but we still do not have access to the time based charts.

[Jaytxo]

We have the same problem. We already upgraded to a paid "Team" plan, but we can't use the historical charts with the x-asis time option.

[solyasa]

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[jdnichollsc]

Hey folks, this is awesome!!
Is there any chart to see the deadline and efforts of the team?

[slinna]

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[beingminimal]

@2percentsilk when github pro users will get access for time based historical chart support in github project insights?

[sergiinvestor]

These expanded charts are a great step toward better project insights, especially the addition of time-based visualizations. It's really useful to see trends like commit activity and workflow evolution over time.

From my experience, combining these charts with external tools can sometimes provide an even more comprehensive perspective. For example, tools like Gitlights offer additional breakdowns, such as developer rankings and commit distributions, which help in understanding both individual and team contributions in detail.