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New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

This update enhances your dashboards with new features that help your team present data more clearly and interpret insights faster. Slingshot now includes Fixed Lines, Axis Titles, Legend Location & Alignment, and Grid Paging, improving usability, streamlining reporting, and making it easier to compare key metrics at a glance.

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These dashboarding features boost visual precision, add flexibility to customization, and make reading your data quicker. Your analytics just got an upgrade. 

Fixed Lines 

New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

You can now add fixed lines to your charts to highlight key values, like targets, thresholds, or goals. These lines remain in place regardless of how your data changes, helping you effectively showcase key benchmarks. 

  • Visually mark sales quotas, capacity limits, or performance benchmarks 
  • Highlight reference points without cluttering your data 
  • Adjust the line style so key items stand out 

Axis Titles 

New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

Easily add and customize labels for your chart’s X and Y axes. This makes your data easier to understand when shared with anyone. 

  • Add context for every metric with customizable axis labels 
  • Avoid misunderstandings when showing dashboards to stakeholders 
  • Ideal for exporting dashboards in PDF or PPT, this feature adds helpful context when sharing reports 

Legend Location & Alignment 

New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

Choose where your chart legends appear: top, bottom, left, or right. You can align them any way you need to, creating layouts that look cleaner, work better for your audience, and make sense for your data story. 

  • Match legend placement to your chart layout and audience needs 
  • Create clean, organized dashboard layouts 
  • Perfect for executive summaries and client presentations 

Grid Paging 

New Release: Improved Control and Clarity in Your Dashboards 

Enable paging for data grids to boost loading performance and improve the readability of large datasets. View thousands of data points without slowing down your dashboards. 

  • Enhance dashboard efficiency with smart data loading 
  • Analyze large tables more comfortably 
  • Keep dashboards clean, even with thousands of data points 

Supported data sources include SQL Server, MySQL, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and Oracle. 

Create Dashboards That Will Speed Up Decision Making 

Every update in this release helps you display data with greater clarity and less clutter. Whether you’re building reports for your team or presenting results to execs, you now have the tools to do it faster and with greater clarity. 

Log in to Slingshot today and start building clearer, faster dashboards. 

Need guidance? Our team is here to help. Request a demo and see these features in action. 

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