Brick Chart

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Brick charts are a type of visualization that gives you insight into your portfolio with different groupings. Each project in the portfolio is represented by a brick in the chart and the bricks are automatically sorted into groups that are defined by the options you select in the chart.

The visibility of projects in the chart is controlled by the project list under the chart. Only projects visible in the list are visible in the chart.

Chart Control	Description
Group	Selects a field to define the columns in the chart.
Subgroup	Selects a field to define subcolumns in the chart.
Color	Selects a field to color the bricks.
Split By	Selects a field to split the bricks. Bricks will appear either above or below the column headers.
Items Above	Defines which bricks appear above the column headers by selecting a value related to the field selected in the Split By control.
Labels	Select which values appear on the brick. You can select up to six labels for each bricks.

Chart options

You can use the Chart Options Panel to add additional elements that can highlight or otherwise enhance parts of the chart.

To access the Chart Options Panel:

Open the brick chart in your portfolio.
Click the three parallel lines icon in the upper-right corner of the chart area.

This opens the Chart Options Panel. The chart options are described in the tables below.

Brick layout controls

Chart Option	Description
Automatically size bricks	Resize the chart to accommodate the number and layout of the bricks. The chart width is still constrained by the width of your browser window.
Hide empty rows	When using the grid option, omit rows that have no bricks.
Enable custom brick limit	Check this checkbox to enforce a limit on the maximum column height in bricks.
Custom brick limit	When the custom brick limit is enabled, this slider controls the maximum number of bricks in a column.

Legend controls

Chart Option	Description
Legend font size	The slider adjusts the legend's font size. Move the slider to right to increase size for better readability or to the left to decrease size and fit more items in the legend.
Show legend brick	Check the checkbox to display the legend brick.
Legend on bottom	Render the legend below the chart instead of on the right side.

Styling controls

Chart Option	Description
Brick border style	Select a field for the brick border styling. You can also select a single style for all bricks.
Brick border color	Select a field for brick border coloring.
Brick text decoration (top-left)	Select a field to display its text in th etop-left corner of each brick. Fields with one to three letter abbreviations work best.
Brick flag decoration (top-right)	Select a field that has two-letter country codes to display the corresponding flags in the top-right corner of each brick.
Brick symbol decoration (bottom-right)	Select a field to display a symbol in the bottom-right corner of each brick.
Apply decoration padding	Adds additional padding around text when decorations are enabled.
Select column group backgrounds	Show or hide the background of column groups.

Sizing controls

Chart Option	Description
First row font size	Adjust the sizing of the bricks' top row of text.
Second/third row size	Adjust the font size of the bricks second and third rows of text.

Axis controls

Chart Option	Description
Show counts in header	Show or hide the Group and Subgroup totals.
Header font size	Adjust the sizing of the brick group and subgroup labels.

Highlighting controls

Chart Option	Description
Highlight selected items	Outline the bubbles/symbols/bricks in the active portfolio or scenario in blue.

Miscellaneous controls

Chart Option	Description
Custom group sort	This activates the ability to sort the categories in a custom order. This only works when there are 15 or fewer categories.
Custom subgroup sort	This activates the ability to sort the subgroups in a custom order. This only works when there are 15 or fewer subgroups.