Changelog

The context menu now features actions to create new groups and move activities to existing groups.

Dependency lines can now be customized individually with a larger range of options. In addition to settings for line color and width, there are now also optional arrow heads and dashing styles to choose from.

All themes are now equipped with a new optional font setting that enables customization of legend text. The checkbox to enable or disable the custom legend font style can be found in the theme editor near the bottom of the font section, between the checkboxes for toggling custom axes and footer font styles.

Resize actions performed on Vizzlo charts in a presentation are now picked up and mirrored by corresponding editor sessions in another tab. This enables fitting a chart onto the slide and quickly making size adjustments while keeping the editor tab open. Once the editor has updated the chart it is displaying the correct layout for that new size.

The dialog for chart type selection now closes right after a chart type was selected. This enables reading or editing the presentation at the same time while a new chart is being created in the editor tab. The sidebar now displays a floating card element as an indicator for open editor sessions in other tabs.

The number inputs in the sidebar for setting up the maximum, minimum or actual values now each also accept negative numbers to visualize a circular gauge with values below 0.

Series that are part of a bar or area stack on one y-axis can now be moved swiftly and freely to the other y-axis. This means that the chart now adjusts to the new conditions while preserving all existing settings.

It is now also possible to move to or close a running editor tab by clicking the new the buttons on the floating indicator cards.

Brand managers and admins can now easily create variations of existing themes via the new duplicate button in the themes section of the org settings.

Projections are now available.

All series style settings are now available per selected series.

The chart space will now adjust when the axis labels are removed.

Large numbers are no longer cut off if they don’t fit into a bar.

Selecting fonts and personal themes in the theme editor now works properly again.

Segments can now only be resized after initial selection.

The sidebar color input now shows the correct color at all times.

The maximum number of series now is 25.

You can now easily switch between regular stacked and 100% stacked mode.

Selecting files from Google Drive for data sync is now done by using Google’s file picker making the connection more secure.

The theme picker now appears more tidy and features a search bar.

Opening the export dialog from the file menu now works properly again.

We adjusted the system to improve loading speed in North America.

Team names are now editable after creation.

Theme titles are now editable after creation.

The dialog for moving items now also allows creating folders in team spaces.

Made it easier to share documents & folders with other Vizzlo users via email. Shared items do not need to by accepted anymore. They will automatically show up in the “Shared with me” folder.

We now show a small progress bar when updating multiple charts in a your presentations.

Fixed an issue with adding linked charts.

NEW Embedded charts can now be connected to external data sources, too.

We worked around an issue, where Chrome’s pop-up protection was triggered when trying to use the “replace shape” feature in the Google Slides add-in. Also, embedded charts may now be larger than 1920x1080 points.

NEW Charts created with the PowerPoint add-in can now be connected to external data sources.

The displayed chart type will now dynamically reflect the actual data in your document. This means that you can create a new “Bar chart”, add another data series, and the chart type will automatically update to “Grouped bar chart.” This feature works in the Google Slides sidebar, the chart editor, as well as the document list in the Vizzlo dashboard.

Selecting newly created intersections now works properly again.

Annotations are correctly drawn on top of other labels, now.

Position rendering for top arrows now works properly again.

Adjusting digits before a zero now work properly again.

Setting up custom colors in the theme editor now works properly again.

Sum value label positioning is now responsive to individual value labels.

Toggling off the legend now works properly again.

The spreadsheet now again detects the dd.mm.yy date format as expected.

Using slant labels for the X-axis now shows more detailed labels.

Value formatting the now works properly again.

You can now use the theme editor to set up number or date axis lines to end in an arrow head.

NEW Introducing Chart Vizzard: Generate fully editable Vizzlo charts by using the power of AI! Click the “Chart Vizzard” button in the dashboard to try for yourself.

Data import, axis settings & moving series to the right y-axis from the spreadsheet now work properly again.

Editing task & responsible column now works properly again.

Editing values & the sidebar inputs for side labels now work properly again.

Connecting a chart with top arrows to an external spreadsheet now works properly again.

Browsing cloud storage documents for data sync now work properly again.

Series color inputs now work properly again.

Scrolling the spreadsheet on touch devices now works properly again.

Moving text annotations now works properly again.

Placing arrow annotations now works properly again.

Selecting chart types for chart conversion now works properly again.

Color picker windows now always appear inside of the frame.

You can now display non-fitting individual values outside of the bar.

Tooltips now all appear in a unified style.

Custom colors can now be edited and are now saved beyond editing sessions.

Color pickers in the sidebar now update the selected element’s color during selection.

Holding shift while moving annotations with the arrow keys now lets you fine adjust the positioning. In addition to that, annotations will now move on a shared grid when moved via the arrow keys.

Input labels now appear more bold, increasing overall readability of the sidebar.

You can now edit text of a selected text box by pressing enter.

NEW You can now choose to set up your arrow chart elements without a shape for the values.

Value labels are now drawn above other elements.

You can now apply style changes to text by using keyboard shortcuts.

You can now move arrow labels outside the grid area.

Dragging the labels now works properly again.

Moving circles outside of a set intersection now works as expected.

Selecting and moving spreadsheet columns now works properly again

Handling of duplicate names is improved when renaming, moving, or copying documents and folders. There will be less error messages and more informative feedback in the rename dialogs.

Adding individual growth rates now works properly again.

Value labels now appear with the correct font size.

Symbols in stepped mode now appear where expected.

You can now edit the colors of bars individually.

Sum values will now show the absolute value in percentage mode.

Theme stroke color is now applied to series in bar mode.

Exported images will now appear without chart element UI elements again.

You now have the option to move to the folder a document in the search results is located at via the context menu.

Private themes now appear with the correct name instead of “Custom theme” again.

You can now seamlessly switch to a grouped bar chart by adding another series.

You now have the option to display both absolute and percentage values together.

Sorting documents by filename now works as expected.

Documents now will keep their set filename after moving to a folder from the editor.

The theme editor now appears with the color panel as default.

You can now display non-fitting individual values outside of the bar.

You can now edit the line style of individual connections.

You can now show the min, max & mean values for boxes.

Long email addresses now appear shortened with an ellipsis.

The portfolio now appears in the correct size again.

Editing the spreadsheet now keeps the set structure intact.

Shared documents now appear with the correct theme regardless of access to that theme.

Removing entries with intermediate siblings now works properly again.

You can now set up scale breaks in the Line Graph.

The date range tooltip is now also displayed while adding new segments.

Added support for scale breaks.

Custom colors can now be configureds for individual records.

You can now set up scale breaks also in the Time Series Graph—including series visualized as lines or areas.

All added chart elements now appear in a revamped list in the sidebar.

These chart types now all support adding custom formatting to individual value labels.

The maximum amount of records is increased to 100.

NEW The export dialog now features options for pixel density as well as dimensions & gives an estimate for the resulting file size.

New folders can now be created from the dashboard’s context menu.

Dates in the team activity sidebar now are correctly formatted regardless of the configured browser language.

These chart types now all support adding custom formatting to individual value labels.

NEW We now offer three different styles for scale breaks: diagonal, straight, and zig-zag. Additionally, an optional border can be added to the scale break, too.

Custom formatting is now also available for individual value labels.

The default page setup can now be freely selected by clicking the star icon in the page setup dialog.

The “Who” column label now responds to column width changes.

We added a new document layout to better reflect Google Slides widescreen presentations.

These chart types now all support adding custom formatting to individual value labels.

NEW The editor now allows setting up multiple scale breaks rather than only one.

Custom formatting is now also enabled for values.

The Time Series Graph now supports adding top arrows to highlight growth rates and more.

You can now also display values as percentages or as absolute & percentage.

Arrow heads now won’t appear on ordinal axes.

Setting the bottom margin to 0 now works as expected.

The theme editor now allows font sizes to be set as low as 4pt.

Drag & drop now works properly again.

Drag & drop for bubbles now works properly again.

NEW Sum value and subtotal labels now support custom formatting.

The axis precision now automatically updates once the scale interval is set to a higher precision.

A bug that caused phases to lose content after drag & drop was fixed.

Drag & drop for pie segments now works properly again.

Chart feature anchors no longer appear behind chart elements.

NEW Individual labels can now be shown in percentage mode, too.

Label lines in outside position now use the custom connector lines theme setting.

Top arrow labels can be moved horizontally with drag’n’drop now.

You can now set the color for each single part of a stack.

Using the dashboard breadcrumbs now works properly again.

Major update to the Google Slides integration!

This new version of our add-on for Google Workspace’s presentation brings you embedded charts and lots of improvements to the user interface. Read more about it in the accompanying blog post announcing Vizzlo for Google Slides 2.0.

Footnotes are “responsive” now and the rest of the chart will adjust to the available space. No need to manually adjust the margin of the chart anymore!

Extra chart features, like top arrows, level difference arrows, etc. can now be formatted with custom colors and shape settings.

The scale interval settings for axis ticks now supports decimal numbers again.

Fixed a small bug with old documents not opening correctly.

Imported spreadsheet data via data sync now detects the correct value formats again.

Resizing or moving segments now updates associated dependencies as expected.

Using the spreadsheet now works properly again.

You can now add benchmarks, projections, overlay arrows and top arrows.

You can now search for documents and folders from the home section of the dashboard.

Clicking the folder information under a document in the home section will now open the directory.

The dialog for seat management for organizations displays information now in an improved way.

It is now possible to show both absolute and percentage values together for bar segments.

NEW The line graph now supports level difference arrows, top arrows & shades chart features

Toggling the legend on or off is now interconnected with the label placement input.

Deleting activities now works as expected again.

NEW! You can now set up two-factor authentication to improve your account’s security. Check out the settings page to get started.

NEW! We have added a search results page in the dashboard. Simply hit the ‘Enter’ key after putting in your search term and get access to all results matching the term.

NEW! All additional chart features will now be presented in a nice popup window accessible from the toolbar.

Fixes a bug where the chart would sometimes not update correctly when modifying number formatting settings.

Fixes a frightening but false error message about the document being removed which popped up when pressing Enter in the visualization editor.

NEW! You can now set up custom value formats for each chart feature individually.

You can now search the portfolio by pressing / (Slash) and put items into the trash bin via drag and drop.

Value labels now act responsively again, even when resizing the chart dimensions.

The dashboard will now show the last person editing a chart for team folder.

Fixes “dangling dependencies” showing up sometimes.

NEW! You can now add dependencies to activity milestones.

As with other visualizations on the platform, the Marimekko Chart now support slanted axis labels, too.

NEW! You can now specify a stroke width and color to use for all shapes in any chart you create. Finally, we all can re-create that classic black & white diagram look in Vizzlo!

NEW! The Google Slides add-on now a features a context-specific sidebar and automatic re-layouting upon resize. No need to edit charts anymore only to slightly adjust the sizing.

Add custom style support for value labels.

Ensure that team folders and shared folders are presented using a permalink.

Sum/difference arrows are now positioned correctly for negative segment values.

We change the navigation bar in the dashboard and updated the main menu to be more in line with the design of the visualization editor.

There are now more styling options available for line annotations.

Sum/difference arrows now allow calculating CAGR and AAGR values for the whole graph or individual column ranges.

The series options in the editor sidebar now appears more structured.

Sum and level difference arrows are now working properly again.

Pictoral chart types are now interactive again.

NEW You can now set up a file name for a document that may differ from the document title.

You can now duplicate folders right from the dashboard.

There is now an option to set the background color for grid-based chart types in the theme editor.

The Gantt Chart now also works for small sized documents.

NEW You can now add chart types to your personal favorites.

The search function for the chart picker is now improved to make chart type selection faster and easier.

All legend related settings now appear in the legend section of the sidebar.

You can now set up charts with up to 100 bars.

The Gantt Chart will now run much smoother even with larger amounts of activities.

Freshly created series are selectable again.

NEW We proudly present the redesign of our chart selector! The new dialog makes it far easier to choose the best chart for your data.

Custom fonts are now supported on embedded documents.

The version conflict detection now does not trigger upon using the undo button.

The dashboard will now be faster when walking through different folders and teams.

The communication about data-sync update failures has changed: you will only receive an email you after two retries and the link to the data source will be included.

Fixed a bug that could take you to the old path if you used the link to a document’s folder on the Editor.

A bug that would show the “Multiple active accounts detected” error on the Google Slides add-in, even if only one account was being used, was fixed.

A bug that would show some selection trails on the editor.

An issue with deleting multiple selected elements using the toolbar was fixed.

Fixes bug that could break charts if a Sum/Difference arrow was added.

A bug that was would not allow the selection of dependencies was fixed.

A bug that could break old charts was fixed.

NEW The Sum/Difference arrow is now available for both the Bar Chart and the Stacked Bar Chart.

Empty values are now supported. You can normally input empty values on the Spreadsheet and the sidebar - the values won’t be converted to zero and no warning message will be exhibited.

You can now easily move the activity groups using the drag handle.

Activities can be included in and removed from a group using drag and drop.

Hovering the bottom of the chart to position a milestone won’t affect the visualization anymore.

Fixed a bug that could result in a wrong color on a column if both a scale break and custom minimum value were used.

Fixed an issue that could incorrectly detect decimals separators and dates prior to the year 2000 when importing a document to the Spreadsheet.

A version detection was introduced to avoid conflicts if more than one person is working on the same document simultaneously.

A bug that could crash documents using connected data sources was fixes.

An issue with the opacity settings was solved.

Fixed a bug that could cause the sidebar to malfunction when an analysis feature was selected.

NEW The new Color Coded Bar Chart is available! .

You can now easily reset milestones’ icon sizes to the default setting.

Fixed a bug that could cause one record settings to interfere with other records.

We improved the way documents are handled inside Google Slides.

A bug that could prevent charts to update properly was fixed.

We removed the Area Plus Line chart from the portfolio page. You can still open your old documents normally. The same functionalities can be achieved using the Time Series Graph.

We strealined our sidebars’ (on the dashboard, settings, editor) designs, for a more consistent experience across our platform.

A bug that could cause malfunctions to the editor main menu was fixed.

You can now open the Spreadsheet by pressing ⌘ J / Ctrl-J on the Editor.

The range input for connected sheets now ignores spaces

An issue with difference computations with multiply/divide by settings was fixed.

A problem that caused malfunctions to spreadsheets connected to external sources was solved.

Fixed a bug with subtotal bars when Start from baseline was used.

An issue with axis range auto scaling for vertical charts was fixed.

NEW You can now you use the new Presentation mode, available on the Editor.

Normal document links are used now, instead of share links.

An error on the desktop app sidebar was fixed.

An issue causing the spreadsheet to malfunction was solved.

NEW Presenting the brand new Trash Bin! You can now easily restore your deleted documents and folders.

The document search function now also works for documents inside team’s folders.

NEW It is now possible to use custom settings for opacity and for the Category Styles with Line, Area or Line and Area .

A bug that could crash the chart if an analysis feature was added is fixed.

A bug that caused malfunctions when a header border was used is fixed.

NEW It is now possible to invert the legend listing.

The visual distance between legend items in top or bottom position is improved.

Opening or creating new documents won’t open the editor in a new tab anymore.

The error 404 (not found) pages are improved.

The chart now supports sum difference arrows.

You can now freely set up start-to-start and end-to-end dependencies.

Connected documents now have a limit in the number of imported columns (64) to avoid longer loading times and malfunction.

A bug that prevented the sidebar to update on selecting elements is fixed

The visual distance between legend items in top or bottom position is improved.

Your cursor now switches on hovering line annotations to indicate the moving interaction upon click.

The fallback options if a theme cannot be resolved are now improved.

The messages shown to you if an error occurred are now showing the actual error message.

The home screen is now showing thumbnails if the dashboard is in list mode.

Converting your document to a different chart type now ensures all changes are part of the new document, too.

A bug that caused the integration to be stuck on loading if the account for a running Chrome session was different from the logged in account for the current tab was fixed.

Adding historical dates is now possible after using the checkbox in the sidebar.

An issue with the axis labels that could break the chart was solved.

Only themes that are available to a document’s owner can be selected (private themes cannot be used for a Team’s document anymore).

The system now uses the default theme of the organization or the user if a theme cannot be resolved.

The update button now also updates the Teams list.

We fixed the position of the sum values.

We fixed the dragging of bubbles.

The drag and drop of records is working smoothly again.

We fixed a bug that could trigger an unexpected theme change.

Values outside of a bubble are not showing up in parenthesis anymore.

We fixed the spreadsheet getting stuck after removing all data.

Individual labels for bar series are now positioned correctly.

Labels are now positioned correctly regardless of any style changes.

Opening the theme editor now feels smooth for every chart type.

We fixed a bug that prevented the proper functioning of the spreadsheet.

We improved the access to legend settings by 1) moving them from the document layout settings to add them to the theme settings and 2) making them more accessible in a specific ‘Legend’ section in the document editor sidebar.

We fixed some sidebar components not showing up in some cases.

We fixed a bug in the groups dialog’s styling.

NEW You can now set up as many activities as you want.

NEW The chart now also supports slanted axis labels.

The toolbar now enumerates multiple color input.

Hex color inputs don’t need to have the # character at the start anymore.

Editing themes for your organization now shows up in the audit log.

Adding activity milestones from the spreadsheet is now possible again

NEW We improved annotations by adding curved lines.

NEW You can now add cone shaped arrows by using the line style input.

NEW Our first charts with 3D support are here: the Pie Chart and the Donut Chart !

All the charts that support symbols now have the same settings and styles available.

We fixed a bug that caused erros when selecting a blank cell in the spreadsheet.

We solved an issue that would prevent the proper functioning of the slant labels slider.

NEW The classic Mercator is not the only projection option anymore: you can choose the Natural Earth projection.

NEW You can now hide country borders.

NEW You can now define paddings for text annotations.

We fixed a bug that caused margins to not be applied to subtitles.

NEW You can now sort activities by using the new grouping feature.

Axis titles can now be disabled.

We fixed a bug that caused text inputs on the sidebar to malfunction.

We solved a problem that would prevent documents to be saved if its folder was renamed in another tab.

We fixed an issue that caused the copying and pasting of columns to not work properly.

We improved the account creation flow for new users invited to organizations and teams.

The design of lots of dialog windows was unified.

You can now use ☆☆☆ on your Pictograph.

A bug in the contact form of the website was fixed.

We implemented a change and now the Google Chrome’s minimum font size settings won’t affect the size and positioning of text elements in the Canvas.

We solved a bug that would affect the correct rendering of dashed lined on PDF exports.

A bug that would show tags on the status bar in the Spreadsheet was fixed.

Fix an issue, where sometimes the data-source settings did not open in the spreadsheet.

You can now access the context menu of your documents using the ⋮ icon. The styling of color picker elements was improved.

NEW: You can now restart the Waterfall from the baseline.

Positive and negative values are now stacked in the same column

We fixed a bug that prevented the connection to external files (xlsx; csv) using Google Drive links

You can now check the sum, the input value, and the formatted value of selected cells directly in the Spreadsheet’s Status bar

NEW: The styling of individual numerical value labels can now be modified—much in the same way you’ve been able to format the text labels before.

NEW: Shortcuts on Google Drive can now be used to connect a document to an external source.

NEW: Shared drives that you’re a member of will now show up when connecting your Google Drive to Vizzlo.

The user interface when moving documents and folders was made easier to handle when you have hundreds of folders to work with.

A confirmation dialog will now be prompted if you close the theme without saving your work.

Axis titles can now be disabled.

Changing between 100% Stacked and Absolute Y-axis is now possible from the Layout Settings.

We solved a bug affecting the creation/deletion of new series from the spreadsheet.

Fix an issue where sometimes color pickers became usable when too many popover are opened.

NEW: Milestones labels can now be positioned manually.

NEW: It is now possible to duplicate elements directly from the toolbar.

NEW: We are presenting a brand new theme editor, with many improvements! Check it out:

NEW You can now change the border widths, colors, paddings, and margins of the chart header.

We fixed a bug that would make data copied from the spreadsheet to be pasted with tags.

An issue that would make the colorpicker to be rendered incomplete was solved.

A bug that would return an error if a team was created with a pre-existent name was fixed.

Milestones are now always aligned with the starting and ending of a segment!

We fixed a bug that could cause some milestones’ labels to be positioned wrongly.

A bug that caused malfunctioning of the editor after using the spreadsheet was fixed.

NEW: We added a brand new toolbar to the visualization editor! Check it out!

You can now use the F2 key to edit cell content in the spreadsheet.

It’s now possible to drag & drop to move documents and folders to the sidebar on the Dashboard.

We improved the rotation for the annotations (from the toolbar). Also, we fixed some bugs with the footnotes and the colorpickers in the sidebar.

We fixed a bug that could prevent the proper installation of the PowerPoint Add-in from the Desktop app.

If you are a user of a prior version of the PowerPoint integration on Windows, you might need to take these manual steps to upgrade

Activity segments will now show a tooltip while moving. Some issues affecting the spreadsheet use of Gantts where fixed.

Big update to our PowerPoint integration on Windows:

• We fixed high memory and CPU usage and also improved the startup and slide switching performance.
• We fixed some errors that could prevent the add-in from being correctly installed for some people.
• Issues with concurrent editing of PowerPoint files were addressed in this version.
• We resolved issues some people could run into when dealing with duplicated PowerPoint documents.

If you are a user of a prior version of the PowerPoint integration on Windows, you might need to take these manual steps to upgrade

We fixed an issue where some text was hidden, when using multi-selection. Also, the theme selector popup will not behave a bit better and not jump around.

NEW: The alignment of activity labels can now be changed.

NEW: You can also resize milestone icons.

Gridline style for tick divider are now working with more consistency. Some issues affecting parts of the context menu were fixed.

Quotation marks are now being removed from the visualization.

More date format options were added (and the format selection list was rearranged).

We’ve improved the design of the Rich Text Editor and now you can check the font type being edited.

On the Mac, we’re supporting the M1 chip natively, now. On Windows, the PowerPoint Add-In is now faster and more reliable. And we fixed a crash when using the portfolio search. Oops.

Axis titles can now be hidden.

Grid lines of exported PDF render perfect in Chrome’s embedded PDF viewer, too.

The rendering of bullet points is improved for better cross-browser consistency. Also, there’s a cool new favicon for your Vizzlo editor tabs.

NEW: Added support for reference lines!

Drag’n’drop behavior is fixed when working with sorted bars.

Fixed changing projection series.

Fixed color pickers in the spreadsheet view.

We improved the experience of editing text boxes.

Local milestones can now have labels spanning multiple lines.

Timeline date formatting works more reliably now when editing the same document from multiple timezones.

NEW: Activity dependencies can now be added and changed using drag’n’drop. Also, you can now edit segment labels, split tasks, and activity milestones from the spreadsheet—and sync them with remote Excel files or Google Sheets!

NEW: Subtotal (or “sum”) columns in waterfall charts now support showing multiple categories—even if the sum of some categories is negative. Check out this cool animation to see this feature in action:

We fixed a bug that made it impossible to use the rich-text functionality when the footnote was embedded into the legend.

Labels of task segment can now be centered or right-aligned.

Modifying dependencies between activities is now also possible via drag and drop.

You can now deselect the current element by pressing [Esc].

Pressing [Return] while editing a multi-line text cell in the spreadsheet will now accept the input as in Excel or Google Sheets.

Improved selection handling of text boxes by adding cursor switches on hover as well as increasing the size of selection frames.

You can now change your account’s email address in the profile settings.

Adding new activity segments and milestones will enable showing their labels by default again.

Removing member of an organization will now make sure that the user is not listed in the respective team folders anymore.

Task segments and milestones can now be moved across activities.

We added some more icons for task milestones and improved the user interface for working with segments a bit.

You can now freely change which days are part of the weekend.

Exporting PNGs in custom resolutions is working again.

Handling of split tasks is now way more straightforward. Also, the ribbon used to connect different segments can be hidden now.

The date axis works in other languages than English.

We improved the number formatting options available to you when working with level difference arrows.

NEW: Vizzlo finally supports multi-selection 🌈 now! Change or remove multiple annotations, bars, countries, …, tasks, anything really, at once.

NEW: We now offer a map of the United States of America!

The placement of certain value labels (and the UI to manage them) has been improved. We fixed a bug where sometimes multiple columns would not collapse into one after you edited the spreadsheet.

The sidebar will now better remember the state different collapsible panes were in as you walk around the UI.

NEW: Document updates from remote datasources can now be triggered directly from within Google Slides. No need to set up auto-sync anymore.

We keep on giving a lot of ❤️ to the Waterfall chart.

NEW Add a level difference arrow to indicated changes from one position to another in basis points now.

Moreover, this release contains 6 bug fixes.

NEW Add a level difference arrow to indicated changes from one position to another in basis points now.

NEW The box plot supports reference lines now. Learn more about this visualisation in our help center.

NEW You now have the option to toggle a footnote on, or off in all charts.

We fixed a bug that crashed this chart when you had added a Level difference arrow and suddenly deleted all data.

We fixed a bug for all Safari users. Solid connector lines are displayed as such when you edit your chart.

🎉 We have given the sum difference arrows a makeover.

New functionality includes:

• drag and drop
• vertical adjustment of the calculations
• improved positioning when multiple arrows are added
• streamlined user interface

With this release we also fixed 4 bugs in the chart related to the sum difference arrows.

NEW More options at your disposal to customise numbers. New features include:

• 4 different option to display the sign of positive and negative numbers
• Switch position of the sign and a prefix

When you display data labels as percentages we made sure setting applies to the sum label too.

🎉 Vizzlo’s portfolio offers box plots now. Key features are 5 number summary statistics for each of your data columns, sorting by median, easy width and color adjustment, and a lot more to come.

NEW This chart supports level difference arrows now. Use this analysis feature to add an additional layer of information to your visualisation quickly.

We cleaned up the user interface and fixes some minor things about date formats.

NEW Most of our data visualisations now support SI prefixes, advanced number format options for axes and shown data labels.

The usability when saving organization themes saw some improvements.

Auto-sync will now work more reliably, if the original source returns empty data.

Fix importing data in some cases.

NEW You can now add sum labels to the chart.

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

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

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

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

Legend icons now scale according to the font size uses.

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

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

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

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

We updated the default data.

• 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

• 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.

NEW The chart features now sorting and reversing of groups.

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

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.

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

• 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.

We fixed a bug that caused a 403 error when you linked your documents to Google sheets at certain times.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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.

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

Learn more in our help center.

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

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

🎉 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. You can now insert soft line breaks using the rich-text editor
2. 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+\

We added the team name when you navigate through folders.

We added an option to hide axis labels.

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

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

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

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

Fix redirect after creating folders in your dashboard.

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

🎉 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

🎨 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.

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

The waterfall chart supports Level Difference Arrows too.

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

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

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.

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

🎉 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.

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.

You can now sign-up with your apple ID

Milestones are now placed at 12pm.

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

Read more about comments in our help center article.

NEW feature: you can now slant the axis labels in the vertical mode of a 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.

You can now hide vertical and horizontal axis lines.

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

You can now hide vertical and horizontal axis lines.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

NEW You can add a label to each segment now!

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!

NEW Uploaded fonts are now accessible while editing a document.

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

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

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

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

• 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

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.

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

• Sum
• Differences
• Growth rate
• Ratios

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!

Read more about slopegraphs in our guide.

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

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

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 👎

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We re-designed our main landing page.

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

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

You can now reset your password again without any issues.

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

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

For the pir chart we improved the label positioning further so that multi-line labels don’t overlap.

• 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🚀

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

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.

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.

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. 🤙

NEW Text annotations can be rotated now.

Input elements got a fresh new look too.

Adding a prefix to the center label is now possible.

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

Text input: rich text edits will be exported correctly

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

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

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

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

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. 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏻

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Read our help center article for more details.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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. 🏃‍♀️

NEW The Waterfall chart is now also available in horizontal mode!

NEW We added the possibility to set the minimum size and maximum size of all bubbles to your liking.

NEW We have also added an option to customize the opacity and the border width.

NEW It’s now possible to hide all labels by just one click.

And generally, we improved the overall performance of the chart.🎈

Fixed some critical bugs in the Pie Chart, Time Series Graphs and Waterfall Chart. 👹

NEW Create templates for your teams! As admin or brand manager of an organization simply create a document in the Templates folder in your documents dashboard.

NEW. Data in the form of, say [$1, $2, $3] or [1%, 2%, 3%] will be parsed correctly now if you specify a prefix or suffix before data import

Fixed. Empty lines were displayed as <br> in spreadsheet

Fixed. Columns couldn’t be resized for some charts

Fixed. Content inside the spreadsheet wasn’t editable anymore after you used the auto-completion out of bounds

Waterfall Chart: for topmost entries of stacked bars a prefixed ’+’ was missing

Treemap: we mapped the wrong color code to ‘content color’ you set in the theme

NEW Sync your documents with external excel files and google sheets files! Go to Spreadsheet --> Connect and simply paste a public link to your data and schedule automated updates.

NEW We have created templates for you! Select to display 2 to 5 circles arranged nicely.

Rotate and slide the circles as you wish. Change their border width and opacity.