Changelog

NEW You can now add sum labels to the chart.

Platform
User Experience

Yay! The sharing dialog will now show user names and avatars.

Platform
User Experience

The listing of available themes is improved, if you’re part of multiple organizations.

Mar 24

NEW Segment labels can now take more space than the actual segments. We also updated the UI a bit.

100% Stacked Area Chart

You can now show legends, even if they only contain one entry.

Data Viz

Legend icons now scale according to the font size uses.

Bug Fixes
User Experience

We fixed a bunch of nasty text editor issues that affected Safari users.

Bug Fixes
Data Input

We fixed a crash when connecting to an empty data source.

Mar 22

Butterfly Chart
Bubble Chart
Grouped Bar Chart
Marimekko chart
Pie Chart
Radial Bar Chart
Slopegraph
Stacked Bar Chart

We fixed updating presentations that contain Vizzlo charts which the updating user had never opened before.

Mar 18

Easier number formatting through some changes in the user interface. Showing and hiding values is possible in the same place as you format them.

Inbound Sankey Arrow

We updated the default data.

Bug Fixes

User reported an error message when they joined a team - we fixed that.
Safari user don’t see the editor sidebar flickering anymore.
There was a chance that your charts crash when you connected to an empty Google Sheet, that should not happen anymore.

Mar 15

Pie Chart

We cleaned up the UI and put more focus on the most important features.

Mar 11

Teams

Team folders contain an activity stream now. We also made it a lot easier to set up your team from your documents dashboard.

Stacked Area Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart

Adding numbers and formatting those got a lot easier due to a change in the user interface.

We fixed a bug that did not show analysis lines when your bar chart already contained a growth rate.

Mar 4

Treemap

NEW There is now the option to hide all data labels, and we also streamlined the user interface.

100% Stacked Area Chart

Slight improvement to the user interface to make number formatting easier and consistent.

Line Graph
Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that did not display your first data points when you switched between a continuous and a discrete horizontal axis.

Bar Chart
Bug Fixes

There was a chance that a scale break was not properly displayed on the vertical axis. We fixed that issue.

Data Input

While you import your data via a connection to an external data source, the option to overwrite column headers manually works as expected now and forever.

Feb 24

Treemap

NEW The chart features now sorting and reversing of groups.

Pie Chart

We fixed a bug that made grouping slices to an “Other” category not possible when you migrated from another chart to a pie chart.

Teams

Admins of Vizzlo organisations don’t see all team folders in the dashboard anymore, but only those that you are part of.

You ended up with a “undefined” label in a task, when you selected the label input from the sidebar. We removed this behaviour.

Feb 22

Word Cloud

‘question?’ and ‘question’ are now considered as the same word.

Feb 18

Bug Fixes

Loading folders… no more. This release fixes a bug reported by some of you that made it impossible to move documents and folders.
Input elements where not always selectable in the spreadsheet when you connected your charts to an external data source. That is fixed now too.
We fixed a bug that caused a 403 error when you linked your documents to Google sheets at certain times.

Feb 17

Fixes a bug that added an offset for horizontal charts with multiple top level nodes.

Teams

Fixed a bug that caused you to add team members twice when creating new teams.

Feb 15

Data Input

We revamped the user interface of the data sync feature. Learn everything you need to know about connecting your Vizzlo documents to external data sources in our help center.

Slide change to the default date format in this chart - this is now based on your locale.

Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that erversed the first 2 characters in the spreadsheet when you typed too quickly.

Feb 12

🎉 The Time Series Graph now supports separate colors for positive and negative values. This features works for line, bar and area charts.

A combined line and area chart with different colours for positive and negative values.

Bug Fixes

We fixed an issue with exporting custom fonts that contain special characters to PNG and PDF files.

Feb 10

Teams

Team members are able to create new document from team templates.

Platform
Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug for Safari users that made the sidebar flicker in some charts.
Folders with special characters in their name are visible again in your dashboard.

Feb 8

Learn more in our help center.

There is a new option for each selected category to overwrite its color.

Data Input

We added the option to prevent our servers from overwriting column header when you connect a chart to an external data source. Read how this will help you in our help center article.

Feb 5

Platform

We released the audit log for enterprise customers. This will give admins a chronological list of events that happened in their organisation.

Learn more about how to connect a chart to an external data source.

The first data label was not shown for line series - we have fixed that.

Bug Fixes

It appeared that the color input stopped working after 3 characters, not anymore. We fixed the issue.

Feb 4

Data Input

🎉 Connecting a chart to an external data source has become very powerful.

You can now bring any combination of columns into Vizzlo’s spreadsheet, and they don’t even have to start in the same row.

T; R:Y; I:T; Y;O;U;R;S;E:L;F

Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes

We have fixed a bug that caused the first x-axis label not to be displayed.

Bug Fixes

User’s that signed up with their AppleID got back their avatar icon.

Feb 3

Points are no longer cut-off at the edge of the diagrams. It feels like a bug fix, but it reverses what was merely an early design decision.

Platform

If you log-in with your Google account, we will now use your avatar from there.

Feb 2

Teams

You can now share team documents and team folders with non-team members.

Teams
Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that directed you into nowhere when you deleted a document from a team folder.

Jan 28

Teams

Mentioning your teammates in comments is easier now due to newly keyboard shortcuts.

Platform

Bullet lists will always be left-aligned when you use the rich text editor.

Jan 25

It is possible now to display up to 20 series with this chart.

Bubble Chart
Dot Plot Chart
Marimekko chart
Grouped Bar Chart
Growth Bar Chart
Stacked Bar Chart
100% Stacked Area Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart

We added the option to update charts only on selected slides. You can still update all charts altogether.

Bug Fixes

You will see the correct dimension again when you change the document layout.
Moving and renaming folders works as expected again.

Jan 20

Platform

You can now insert
soft line breaks using the rich-text editor
keyboard shortcuts for bold ⌘+b (Mac) or ctrl+b (Windows), italic ⌘+i or ctrl+i, underline ⌘+u or ctrl+u formatting are supposed now too. To clear any formatting press ⌘+\ or ctrl+\

Jan 18

Google Slides Add-on
Teams

We added the team name when you navigate through folders.

We added an option to hide axis labels.

Jan 14

Business Model Canvas

It is now possible to add an editable source in the footnote.

Bar Chart
Line Graph
Waterfall Chart

It was not possible to navigate into sub-folders of your team. We fixed that.

Jan 11

Axis settings are getting more flexible: we have added the option to hide axis labels.

Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that made the user interface flicker in some charts under Safari.

Jan 7

Platform
Bug Fixes

Fix redirect after creating folders in your dashboard.

2020

Dec 21

Platform
Bug Fixes

👋 The welcome dialog will welcome you only once now. 👋

Dec 16

🎉 Scale breaks on the y-axis are now supported.

See our help center article on bar charts for all features, tips&tricks.

It is possible again to navigate into your Box, GDrive, Dropbox and Onedrive folders from our Google Slides add-on.

Dec 5

Platform

It is now possible to connect Vizzlo documents to private XLSX, CSV files and Google sheet. For the feature to work, just connect your Vizzlo to GDrive.

Dec 4

Google Slides Add-on
Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that made the sidebar not show your documents in the Google slides add-on.

Platform

Searching for documents and folders in the dashboard gives correct results again.

Dec 3

We made a slight change in the user interface to make it easier to change the number format of the data labels.

Line Graph

Improvement to the number formatting and the code base to avoid update loops.

Teams

We added the option for admins to create teams from the dashboard.

Dec 1

Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug that made a Gantt chart and a Project phase chart crash.

Dec 1

Line Graph

We have improved the position of the first and last data point. They are displayed above the line. The option to show them before or after the end of the line is still available.

Nov 23

Project Phase Chart
Bug Fixes

A fix that brings back the option to add a phase in the horizontal mode of this chart.

Nov 20

👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏼 Collaboration just got better. Access team folders now in our Google Slides add-on.

Radar Chart

We fixed a bug in the radar chart. Html tags are not visible anymore in a legend when you used the rich-text-editor to style the legend text.

Teams
Platform

We keep improving account and user management for teams and enterprise customers. New settings were added to make the lives of admins easier.

Nov 16

Platform

🎨 We improved the creation of color palettes.

No matter how many categories or series your data contains, our algorithm will do the right thing. It will add as many colors as needed for your charts. These colors are created by interpolation from the color space defined by the color palette of the theme used.

Nov 12

Teams
Bug Fixes

Chart layouts and themes created for your team will show the correct organization name in the document editor again.

Nov 11

The waterfall chart supports Level Difference Arrows too.

Grouped Bar Chart

We fixed a bug so that drag and drop works smoothly again when rearranging groups.

Timeline Chart

The initial date format displayed in your chart will match your locale now.

Pictograph

Tiny improvement to avoid confusion - no negative values are allowed anymore when change the number of icons.

The visibility of the analysis features like trend line, benchmark, and reference line was improved.

Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes

We fixed a bug were a newly added shade was almost invisible. 👻

Nov 9

Stacked Bar Chart

🎉 We added support for level difference arrows.

A minor change to minor values. The position of these values was improved when they were placed at the top of a chart. Waterfall charts in PowerPoint presentations should especially benefit from this where margins are set to 0 by default.

Oct 12

NEW We added Level difference arrows as a new analysis feature. Use it to highlight and compare values.

Drag and drop the arrow ends to calculate the sum, difference, growth rate, ratio, or add free text. Read more about level difference arrows in our Help center article on bar charts.

Sep 29

Platform

You can now sign-up with your apple ID

Sep 22

Milestones are now placed at 12pm.

Sep 18

Platform

🎉 Collaboration for team members just got to the next level. You can comment on team documents.

NEW feature: you can now slant the axis labels in the vertical mode of a bar chart!

Sep 14

Marimekko chart
Bar Chart
Line Graph
Time Series Graph
Growth Bar Chart
100% Stacked Bar Chart
Stacked Area Chart
100% Stacked Area Chart
Triangle Bar Chart

NEW The bar chart comes with three options now to change the color mode.

You can now

set one color for all bars
color positive and negative values differently, or
use the colors from your theme palette.

Sep 11

You can now hide vertical and horizontal axis lines.

Sep 9

Bar Chart
Stacked Bar Chart

We streamlined the UI for the bar chart and the stacked bar chart.

You can now hide vertical and horizontal axis lines.

Aug 21

Platform

We have created a landing page for our timeline charts at vizzlo.com/graphs/timelines

Aug 3

You can now directly add Vizzlo charts stored in Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and OneDrive from the sidebar of our Google Slides integration. 📊

Jul 24

Marimekko chart

NEW Another chart waiting for you! Welcome the Marimekko chart to the Vizzlo family. 🎉

Features include:

Vertical and horizontal chart layout.
Add padding between your segments.
Display your data by absolute or relative numbers.
Sort your data separately for each category.

Create your own: vizzlo.com/create/marimekko-chart

Jul 17

Data Input

NEW We added support to sync your documents with public CSV files from all over the web, and stored in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive account.

Jul 8

GE-McKinsey Matrix

NEW Please welcome the GE-McKinsey Matrix in our portfolio 🎉

Features include:

Switch between a square matrix layout and a rectangular layout.
Add inner padding between the cells.
Show or hide a legend, row, column, or cell headers.
Move axes lines from top to bottom or left to right.

Jul 1

NEW More customization options for you. Change the color of any milestone now independently.

Jun 22

Platform

NEW Folder can be renamed now! Right-click on any folder and start editing.

NEW You can add a label to each segment now!

Timeline Chart

The UI of the Timeline received a facelift. We made it easier to

position milestones on a timeline
change the granularity of the timeline to daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly
adjust the date format

NEW Besides that, we added the option to display free text instead of dates!

Platform

NEW Uploaded fonts are now accessible while editing a document.

Jun 18

Competitive Radar

NEW One more chart that was completely revamped recently. Features include:

Customizable document layout
Set different colors for column headers, segment background and individual competitors

Jun 10

Word Cloud

NEW You can now filter a word cloud by the number of characters per word.

Nightingale's Rose Chart

NEW You can now switch between the options to make the area proportional to the values or the radius.

May 29

NEW You can adjust the width of the bars when you added a projection to your chart

May 28

Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes

Improved axis tick positions for very small ranges of the y-axis
Labels and values are at correct positions when you add reference lines or a moving average

We set better defaults for the axis labels when you customize the range of the y-axis

May 25

Venn Diagram

We have improved the color contrast when you change the opacity.

NEW We added more customization options to the Sum / Difference arrows. Instead of calculations, it is now possible to show free text.

May 15

Platform
Waterfall Chart

NEW More options to compare values across bars using Sum/Difference Arrows.

Sum
Differences
Growth rate
Ratios

May 8

Slopegraph

NEW We have completely revamped our slopegraph!

Set colors differently for decreasing, increasing or equal values
Adjust the line width for all lines or a single line
Show/hide labels, values and legend
Change the document layout and much more!

NEW The label for Sum/Difference Arrows can be moved now.

May 7

Project Phase Chart

NEW We have added the option to change the color of all chevron headers simultaneously.
The UI also received a facelift.

Apr 30

Thumbs Up and Down Chart

NEW One more chart that got some ❤ recently.

It is now possible to

change the document layout 👍
change the color of the text 👍
change the font size of the content easily 👍
spin straw into gold 👎

Pictograph
Bug Fixes

Fractions will be shown correctly up to the nth decimal place.

Apr 24

NEW Multiple bar series can be positioned in three different ways.

Grouped — multiple series are arranged side-by-side
Stacked — stack overlapping series on top of each another
Separate — positions won’t be adjusted, series are displayed overlapping

Vizzlo's Desktop App

NEW You can sync your Vizzlo account to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive right from our desktop app (v1.3.6+).

Apr 20

Range Plot

NEW There is a new chart waiting for you in our portfolio! Use it to display the difference between two values.

You can adjust the size of the dots, switch between a horizontal and vertical chart and more. We added a more a sophisticated example to our gallery.

NEW We added a few styling options to our Value Projection. Now you can:

display values in absolute and percentage mode
show the category labels above or below the chart (or hide them)
change the color of the record labels
change the font style of the category and record labels
change the layout of the chart itself

Apr 17

Dot Plot Chart

NEW We added the option to change the size of the dots.

Time Series Graph
Bug Fixes

We had introduced a bug with the last release. 🙄
Multiple bar series containing missing data are now displayed correctly again.

Apr 15

Alarm Clock Chart

We also put some ❤ into this chart. It is now possible to adjust the chart’s layout to any dimension.

Message

We put some ❤ into this chart. Adjust the chart’s layout and shape to your liking.

Apr 14

Platform
User Experience

We are continuously working to improve your user experience. An even fresher look for our website, and new icons welcome you. Also another Quick Start article was added on how to Customize a theme to help you give your work a unique look.

We did a few improvements to this chart regarding:

The user interface was polished for a selected series
By default the y axis starts at zero for bar charts and area charts
Defaults y axis range was improved when a log scale is applied

Fixed. Also we fixed a bug that didn’t show difference shades correctly on Safari browser.

Mar 31

Platform

NEW Theme selection is now much more illustrative. We will continue to work to make using Vizzlo as easy as possible.

Multiple segments in the same activity are now connected through a ribbon

Platform

NEW You can now log in with your Microsoft 365 account too.

Mar 24

Data Input

Number and date parsing just got better for Excel files. Drop it into the spreadsheet - decimal and thousand separator will be interpreted correctly as well as special formatting.

Mar 20

Platform

We re-designed our main landing page.

Go to vizzlo.com and see yourself (but you need to be logged out).

Annotations

Text annotations can now be easily resized. Simply use on of the drag handlers to adjust the text box to your needs.

Bug Fixes

You can now reset your password again without any issues.

Mar 13

Platform

A new dashboard is welcoming you! We’ll keep you updated about new features, promotion, articles. Also you’ll see the document you recently worked on right away.

Welcome home. 🏡

We have added the possibility to show series as grouped bars.

Click on a series and under Series style chose Grouped bars

Dependencies use a improved routing and are at the correct position when you drag segments forth and back

Data Input

Date parsing was improved when the display format is Month Year and you input, e.g. 2 2020 or 4/2020

Mar 6

Platform
User Experience

NEW From now on, new users will be welcomed by a small selection of examples: get ready to explore and start creating!
While editing document, we improved the visibility of the selected elements
The interactivity of the dashboard while scrolling has significantly improved🚀

Pie Chart
Donut Chart

We further improved the automated label positioning for the pie chart! Especially multi-line labels benefit from that and don’t overlap.

Mar 5

Data Viz

NEW It’s now possible to change the text size character by character! Simply select text and use the rich text editor for the customization.

Project Phase Chart

NEW Click on the column header and resize your columns as needed. Visualizing your project flow just became easier.

Click on the lock icon to undo your changes.

Mar 3

Platform
User Experience

The sidebar of the visualization editor got a major overhaul!

Properties of the document and selected elements are grouped now. The settings are way easier to access than ever before. Additionally, we introduced a toolbar to quickly allow you to open the spreadsheet or add anotations or analysis series. 🤙

Annotations

NEW Text annotations can be rotated now.

Input elements got a fresh new look too.

Radial Percentage

Adding a prefix to the center label is now possible.

Feb 27

Pie Chart
Donut Chart

Our Pie Chart and Donut Chart have now more beautiful and smarter connectors between slices and labels. To try them on your charts, check the box Align labels

Bug Fixes

Text input: rich text edits will be exported correctly

Waterfall Chart: Existing documents showing difference arrows don’t not crash anymore

Feb 24

PowerPoint Add-in

We have spent time to improve performance & memory usage.

This results in:

a decreased starting time of Vizzlo’s powerpoint add-in by a second, and it
makes working with large presentations stabler - especially when working with multiple presentations or running PowerPoint for multiple days

Also we improved our preview images to look nicer and clearer

Better chart icons for PowerPoint

We increased the resolution of embedded Vizzlo graphics in your presentations! 😎

Bug Fixes

Polar Bar Chart: Existing documents will not immediately crash anymore

Organizational Chart: Supports multi-line titles now

Google slides add-on: Any Vizzlo graphic can be added to your presentation again, we introduced a bug with previous release - sorry

Feb 20

Platform

There is no “i” in team! We made it easier for you to create a Vizzlo organization. Make collaboration easier by sharing documents, custom themes, and templates. 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏻

Feb 18

We have improved the interaction when reorganizing trees. Attaching a subtree to another position works easily.

Feb 17

Platform

The selection and editing of text input was improved a lot especially if you have many text elements. We have also laid the foundation to expand the use of the rich text editor.

Bug Fixes

Waterfall Chart: Exported images show correctly updated text when elements are moved.

Feb 13

Platform
User Experience

NEW vizzlo.com/documents has a fresh, brand new look. ✨

Pie Chart

NEW You can now quickly group slices in one bigger “Other” slice to make your chart easier to read.

Pie chart: group smaller slices in a bigger one

Simple Gantt

NEW Now it’s possible to adjust the start and the end of your activities by simply dragging the handlers on each side

Bug Fixes

Organizational chart: intermediate roles are now positioned correctly when deleting other, unrelated roles.

Feb 7

Platform

Bug Fixes

Time Series Graph: The spreadsheet froze for this chart when there was a scale break used together with invalid data.

Timeline Chart: There was a chance you saw a full ISO date format in the sidebar. Should not have happened too often.

Organizational Chart: Boxes will now immediately update upon changing a position to be an intermediate role.

Feb 6

Platform

NEW This changelog! 🎉

NEW You can resize the width of the columns now! Simply drag it to the left and right to make your Gantt Chart even better.

Small UX improvements: Selecting (and deleting) a segment will no longer select (and delete) the whole activity anymore. example of a Gantt chart

Simple Gantt

Milestones are now connected with a line when they get moved away from their position; also the performance of the chart has improved a lot

User Experience

Color picker: it became a lot easier to change the color of an element. Simply click on the color code an edit it!

Quickly insert the HEX of the color of your choice with the new color picker

Bug Fixes

Organizational Chart: there was an update issue when you have changed one entry to be an intermediate role

Time Series Graph: The chart crashed when when you displayed your series as area that contained missing data

Annotations: the drag handler were a bit off when you rotated a line

Jan 31

Platform
Vizzlo's Desktop App

NEW You can now browse your document history in our desktop app too! Go to File → Document history ... or press Strg/Cmd + Shift + Alt + H to browse your changes.

NEW We have added an option to set the box height or box width for each row individually. That gives you a lot more freedom to tailor your chart according to your needs.

Read our help center article for more details.

NEW Milestones can now have their own color and shape. Simply click on any milestone and change their appearance in the sidebar.

Besides that we put some ❤ into this chart and improved its usability and performance a lot: dragging activities, adding milestones and segments feels much more smooth and less hectic now.

Jan 24

Platform

NEW Document history! Browse versions, restore them or create a new document as a copy. None of your changes will be lost. Click on the chart title in the menu bar and then Document history ... or use the shortcut and press Strg/Cmd + Shift + Alt + H to open it.

User Experience
Simple Gantt

NEW You can drag and drop activities vertically now

NEW Milestones can have their own date format independent of axis settings and activity settings.

We also improved the grid line positions and respective date labeling of the horizontal axis. You don’t need to worry about it and we take care of a good format here.

Fixed. The placement of date & description in some edge cases now works as expected.

Stacked Bar Chart
Bug Fixes

NEW You can place category labels now directly to the last bar instead of having them in a legend.

Stacked bar chart: place the category labels to the last bar

Fixed. The number format of sum labels was totally off when you displayed individual values as percentages too. That is now working.

Fixed. There was an updated error of axis labels after you reordered your bars. That is also working now.

Radial Percentage

We have added support for formatting the number in centered label. Now can be more precise than ever.

Bug Fixes
Data Input

Fixed. There were multiple crashes in our spreadsheet when parsing date data. This should work now without any issues (hopefully).

Jan 16

Bug Fixes

Pie Chart: There was a bug when value labels were aligned. You couldn’t change the category labels to be displayed in the legend.

Gantt Chart: you could see some weird behavior of the chart moving outside of the canvas when you placed a milestone outside of the date range. That is gone now.

Time Series Graph: it was not possible to hide the label of a shade but now everything is back to normal.

User Experience

Small UI improvements for our Waterfall Chart and Pie Chart such that it becomes easier now to switch between different display styles.

Jan 10

Bug Fixes

Gantt Chart: axis labels weren’t centered if your axis domain didn’t cover a whole year

Pie Chart: the tooltip position was off a bit for a selected wedge

Venn Diagram: better position of newly added circles that overlay each other

Time Series Graph: the chart crashed when you deleted data from spreadsheet that was used for an analysis feature

Date parsing of quarters didn’t work as expected in our spreadsheet

Jan 7

Bubble Chart

We improved the sorting for an even smarter chart. Bubbles will be rendered by their size: largest on bottom, smallest on top so you won’t miss any observation.

Improved sorting for the bubble chart!

NEW. In Analysis, you can now aggregate your observations by summing them over an interval.

Bug Fixes

Small UI improvements and bug fixes for the Pictograph, Time Series Graph and Pie Chart.

2019

Dec 4

Data Input

NEW Auto-syncing your charts to external data became a lot easier: There is now the possibility to browse your cloud connections for files by just a click.

Bubble Chart

NEW You can now display bubbles even if these represent negative values in your data. 🧐

Performance improvements of the text rendering – resizing columns and writing text is a lot faster now. 🏃‍♀️

Nov 28