Hourly Goals Chart with Conditional Formatting

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A while back I developed a solution to a Chandoo.org Forum question, where the user wanted a 4 level doughnut chart where each doughnut was made up of 12 segments and each segment was to be colored based on a value within a range.

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You can read the original post here: http://forum.chandoo.org/threads/hourly-goals-chart.30621/

This post will examine the techniques I used for the solution.

Data

Download the sample file: Download Hourly Goals Chart File

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The first thing to note is that there are 4 column of data, one for each measure of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.

Secondly is that each measurement has 12 values representing the times from 4:30 am to 3:30 pm.

We need to setup a Doughnut Chart with 4 layers of 12 segments each

The easiest way to do this is to replicate the data area, but fill it with the same value in all cells,

I choose 1, but as long as all values are the same value, it can be any value

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Add a Doughnut Chart

Select the Range A16:E28

Goto the Insert, Chart and select the Pie/Doughnut menu

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We have a bit of work to do yet to get the charts format correct

First select the chart then select the Chart’s Legend and press Delete

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Next with the chart still selected, Right Click on any Doughnut and select Format Data Series

Set the Doughnut Hole Size to 25%

Do not change the angle of the first slice

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Right  click on the Outer Doughnut and select Add Data Labels, Data Labels

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Right Click on any Data Label and Select Format Data Labels

Tick Value From Cells, Select a range A17:A28

Untick Value

Untick Leader Lines

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Now manually click and drag each data label outwards to its final location

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Finally set the Border Color for the doughnuts

Right Click on each Doughnut in turn

Set the Doughnut’s Border Line to a Grey Color and a 2 Pt line size

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We can now add a text box for the Doughnut Labels

With the chart selected, goto the Insert, Text Box menu

Drag a Text Box inside the chart

Right click on the Text Box and edit Text and type in the value Cost

Now repeat this for the other 3 Doughnuts

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Connect the Doughnut Segments to the Data Area

We now have a basic Doughnut chart with all the facilities we require.

Unfortunately, Excel doesn’t have a built-in Conditional Formatting option for charts.

So we will need to develop a system using some simple VBA.

Understand the Doughnut Chart

To write a piece of code we will need to loop through each segment of each doughnut and reference it back to the source data area

Then use some code to set the fill color

then repeat for each segment

 

To do this we need to understand which doughnut is which column of data and which segment in the doughnut is which time period

First select the inner Doughnut, Note that when you select it, Excel highlights the Safety Series as well as showing the Series Number in the Formula Bar

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Repeat with the outer Series and you will see that Doughnut 4 is connected to the Cost Data and is series 4.

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To determine which segment is which goto cell E17 and change the value from 1 to 2

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So we understand that the series go from Value 1 to 4, Inner to Outer Doughnuts and that the segments go from value 1 to 12 clockwise, starting to the right of 12 O’Clock.

Finally select the Chart and make note of it’s name.

The Charts Name is shown in the Name Dialog above cell A1

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Now for some VBA

Lets start by first manually recording a macro in VBA and we will then edit and add to the macro to get our final result

Start the macro Recorder by Pressing the Macro Button in the lower left corner of the Excel Window

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Note the Macro Name, which is most likely Macro1 and press Ok

Now everything that you do is being recorded by the Visual Basic Editor (VBE)

Select the Outer Doughnut, then select Segment one, then Right Click on Segment one, Format Data Point

Select the Fill & Line menu

Set the Fill to a Solid Fill and Select a Color Red

You can now stop macro recording by pressing the Macro button again

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Lets look at our code

To change to VBA press the Alt+F11 button

You should have a screen similar to this:

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Take note of the above.

We can see that we have a Macro1 subroutine, located in Module 1 of our Excel file.

If you can’t see a Properties or Immediate window, don’t worry.

Looking at the VBA Code we can see

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  1. That the chart is called Chart 1
  2. We selected Doughnut 4, the outer doughnut
  3. We selected the first segment in Doughnut 4
  4. We set the Fill Color of Segment 1 to Red  = RGB(255, 0, 0)

So this little bit of code will form the basis of our macro

What we need to do next is to place that within 2 loops, one loop for the Doughnut and one loop for the Segment

So lets do that:

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You can see above that we have initialised two variables Doughnut and Segment as Integers

We have setup two loops, one for the Doughnut which will loop from 1 to 4 and a second loop for the Segment, which will loop from 1 to 12.

We can now use these variables within the code to reference each Doughnut / Segment as relevent

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The next thing is to add lines to lookup the value of the measure in the original data table.

We can use our variables to assist us with this:

I have added a new variable declaration myVal and declared it an Integer as it is only storing the values from, 0 to 3.

Then we retrieve the value from the data area by using a Range(“”).Offset(Row,Column) combination.

We know that the segment loops from 1 to 12 and this is the Row Offset in each Doughnut.

The Doughnut loops from 1 to 4 and this is the Column Offset from the cell A1

 

 

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Next we need to allow for each fill color remembering that the data area has a legend

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We could loop from a value of 0 to 3 and check the new variable myVal against each value and set the color.

But VBA has a Select Case function which is ideally suited to this task

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A also took the opportunity to streamline the Chart selection process in the previous step

That allowed the use of the With Object construct, allowing the Select case to use the myVal to apply different colors to the fill property of each segment

 

At this stage we can run the code, by simply pressing F5 in VBA

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We can change the code to allow it to update automatically when Data range changes

To do this we need to shift the code to a Sheet1 Code Module associated with Worksheet Sheet 1

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Note above that the code is now located in a Private Sub Worksheet_Change event. This means that the code runs whenever worksheet1 chnages.

The next line If Intersect(ActiveCell, Range(“B2:E13”)) Is Nothing Or Target.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub

Checks whether the cell that changed was not part of our Data Area or that multiple cells were selected.

If either are are true the macro ends

Then finally I removed the MyVal calculation and made it part of the Select Case function.

because we aren’t using myVal I removed the Dim myVal statement

We can now also remove Module 1, right click on it and Remove Module.

Save the file and return to Excel with Alt+F11

You can now change any cells in the data area and the macro updates the chart accordingly

Can we tidy up the layout of the worksheet?

Although we now have a fully functional model, we are stuck with an ugly worksheet layout because our template of 1’s is being used to support the framework of the 4 Doughnuts in the chart.

What if there was another way to achieve that?

Well there is.

Firstly, we could simply shift the range A18:ER30 well away from the Chart and data area or even move it to another worksheet.

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This will work, but risks a person adding data, rows or columns and messing up the layout

But there is a better way

I am going to add 4 Named Formula to the worksheet, one for each Doughnut

Goto the Formula, Name Manager Tab and add 4 Names as listed below:

_Safety      =1+(ROW(OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,,,12,1))-1)*0

_Cost        =_Safety

_Delivery  =_Safety

_Quality  =_Safety

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The 4 Names now contain an array of 12 x 1 each with a value 1.

We can use that to link the Doughnuts to instead of the Physical Range

Right click on the chart and Select Data

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Select each Doughnut in term and Edit

Change the Series Name to Row 1 and insert the Names into the Series values dialog.

Note that the formula must include the Worksheet name =Sheet1!_Safety etc

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Repeat this for the 4 Series

You can now select the framework range: A18:E30 and press Delete

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The chart remains intact and is now supported by the Named Formula

Change some values in the Data range at the top and the Chart updates as it should.

You can download the final version of the file here: Download Completed File

Final Thoughts

The technique applied to the doughnut chart above can fairly easily be modified to any chart type or in fact any other shapes.

Let me know what you think in the comments below:

ps: This has been one of my hardest posts to write, simply because Microsoft has misspelt Doughnut. In my native Australian English it is Donut.

 

 

 

 

 

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115 Responses to “Sales Dashboards – Visualizing Sales Data – 32 Dashboard Examples & Implementations”

  1. Andy Wall says:

    Chandoo

    Good to see the variety of styles of sales reporting. Too bad I missed this contest, will there be another?

    • KYLE CLARK says:

      Hi Chandoo.

      Hope you well.

      I've been using your sight for information for a while now.

      I was wondering if you can assist me with a Sales Dashboard?
      I know have all the data and I know exactly what Metrics i want to display and how.

      Even if I have to pay you? what are the options?
      I want to create a top shelf dashboard!

      Examples of what i want to display.

      SALES value (Jan - Feb) - ACTUALS vs BUDGET vs PRIOR YEAR
      SALES GROWTH %
      PRICE,VOLUME,EXCHANGE

      Please advise if you can assist?

      Regards
      Kyle

  2. Jon Peltier says:

    Lots of variety.

    Many of these examples show only one chart, which hardly constitutes a dashboard. Many of the charts are bar charts, where line charts (i.e., time series) might have been more appropriate or more readable. Some of the color schemes are distracting.

    Yet there were a few good examples: Alex, Ajay, Cuboo, Tessaes.

  3. Chris Grant says:

    Wow, this is great. And --- source files too! Thank you for organizing this.

  4. Karimmo says:

    Jon,
    The aim was not to build exclusively dashboards but: "all you have to do is a make one chart (dashboards are ok too) to visualize this sales data effectively".

    Chandoo,
    I didn't realize you will post every intermediate step of my chart 🙂 Option 16 (final version of my chart) misses the source file: http://bit.ly/8HwVSm

  5. Doozerboy says:

    Some very good dashboards here.

    Particularly like the funky rotate on Matt Cloves' example, and Ajay's example looks pretty pro too.

  6. m-b says:

    Isn't it better to consider entries 12-16 as one entry? The same goes for 19-20.

    I think Cuboo is my favourite at the moment but I need to examine them more closely 🙂

  7. ericlind says:

    I'm partial to chart 5. I get enough information from the visuals to give me a suitable overview, and then I'm given clear consciece analysis on specific metrics.

  8. Jon Peltier says:

    Karimmo -

    Sorry, the post was entitled "Sales Dashboards", so I made the natural assumption.

  9. TonyP17 says:

    Some amazing dashboards and clever methods of making the data dynamic.

    In many of the examples the methods used only become clear once hidden working sheets are displayed.

  10. chrisham says:

    Chandoo, thanks for putting this together, looking at the content here I am glad that I did not submit mine..... lol. But there's a lot to be learning here in the coming days and may be the next time around I'll be ready for it! Thanks so much for the source files... and of course to the contributors!

  11. Chandoo says:

    @Andy.. thanks, Yes, there will be more contests. I will announce one when we reach the 10k subscriber base. I am also open for new contest ideas and sponsors.

    @Jon: I named all the entries as dashboards out of convenience. Agreed that some of them are just charts (or pivot charts).

    @Chris: You are welcome.

    @Karimmo: I have considered each of your submissions as separate entries (my bad). I can add up the votes, but it might give you unfair advantage 😉

    @Doozerboy: Even I liked Matt's rotate option. Watch out for a tutorial on that very soon 🙂

    @m-b: Good point, I have considered them as separate entries as it wasnt clear if the authors made multiple or single entries. Sorry for the confusion.

    Also, agree with you on Cuboo's entry. As always very well done.

    @ericlind, Tony: Thanks

    @Chrisham: You should have tried. Next time, you must submit one.

  12. Oliver Montero says:

    Excellent work from almost all the contestants. Loved many and I'm eager to try some of the designs and to participate in the next contest. I specially liked options 26, 22, 03, 05 and 11. Very professional, clean and bug free. Too bad one can't vote for more than one 🙁

    Thanks to Chandoo for doing this contest and to all participants. Looking forward for more iterations.

    Great stuff!!!!

  13. Alex Kerin says:

    Excellent work putting all of this together Chandoo, - hours of work I would guess. Some really good examples here. Thank you.

    One thing to think about when voting is that the original remit was to design a visualization for a "senior manager [to] understand how the sales people have done in the 24 months". I'm certainly not saying this because I feel that my example is any better then others, more that so often in our field the resulting visualization does not fulfill the original objective.

    Breaking this down - a 'senior' manager does not have time, or want to dive into data exploration. He or she wants quick, easy to see, immediate answers on the most important questions with more data to help explain trends and allow decisions to be made.

    Equally, the visualization should primarily display "how the sales people have done", so the chart(s) should be all be sales person centric. Questions like: "who performed best, against their expected performance, who sold what, who sold it where, what size companies did they sell to?" are likely wanted and useful. Finally, "24 months" implies the requirement for time trending information.

    Again, please don't read this as any push for votes, simply that these excellent examples are assessed by their ability to meet the objective.

  14. TonyP17 says:

    I have downloaded the zip file link to Alex Kerin's dashboard (Option 04) but do not know how to look at the numerous files contained within.

    Perhaps someone can explain please.

  15. Alex Kerin says:

    @Tony. The first link is the Excel file. The second is a link to the free (excellent) sparkline add-in I used. You don't need to load it, but you may get some #NAME errors, and some cells won't update if you change the data.

    If you do want to load it, select the correct version from the linked page (there are basically two - 2003 and before, and 2007). Load these up by opening them in Excel, allowing any macros if prompted, then open Link 1.

    Hence the problem with third-party add-ins - Office 2010 has its own sparklines, but this add-in is still much better...

  16. Jon Peltier says:

    Alex -

    Depending on how "senior" this executive is, I don't think you used enough pie charts.

    Seriously, I agree with your comment. A dashboard is nice if it's interactive, but it's useless if it doesn't show a broad overview of information in a single view.

  17. TonyP17 says:

    Alex
    The first link gives me a zip file to download. I do not see an Excel file to open other than several .xml files. Can you give me any further guidance please.

    Clearly there is plenty here I am not familiar with.

  18. Chandoo says:

    @Oliver: I am happy you liked it.

    @Alex: Very good points. I have realized this as soon as I saw the second entry in my inbox. There is no way I can compare one dashboard with another. Even though the stated objective is "help a senior manager understand how sales people have done in the last 24 months" several people interpreted this in several ways and some went all the way to show trends and messages based on product, region or customer as well.

    Since my unstated objective is "help Chandoo learn new and awesome-kickass-cool dashboard and charting tricks" I kept quiet.

    I have tried to do some justice by adding comments next to each dashboard to help the voters. But I already know that each of these entries is a winner. Just the fact that these people could do something with the data and make a dashboard showing how they understand it is a HUGE achievement. Not many people (not even 1% of the population) can articulate ideas like these. Kudos...

    @Jon... We need a Pie chart add-in, we need it now. Go release !!! 🙂

  19. cuboo says:

    @chandoo: Many thanks for the working-hours writing this post. It's brilliant! So many good visualization ideas ... lot's of things to learn from!

    @alex: I agree with you totally - a dashboard for senior executive has to be as simple as possible and focussed on the performance of salespersons. We should never forget: It's all about decision-supporting!
    Me neither met a manager who did OLAP-Analysises; they rarely use their computer - here in Germany! They wanted their infos on paper and very often the dashboard - is it a dashboard or a report? - needs to be printed out. That's the reason, why I didn't use colours extensively. This makes my dashboard looking grey and not very "sparkling", even though I used the excellent open-source sparklines-addin from Fabrice as you did 🙂

  20. Alex Kerin says:

    @Tony: sorry, the link goes to an xlsm file, which is an Office 2007 file with macros - if you have this it will be automatically recognized. This URL: http://bit.ly/6owMD5 will take to an Excel 2003 file (xls). There will be some loss of fidelity, but you should get the idea.

    @Jon, Chandoo. My example actually contains 5 pie charts, see if you can spot them - couldn't resist doing that 😉

  21. Jon Peltier says:

    Cuboo -

    A good dashboard report (see, it's both a dashboard AND a report) is not defined by a fancy color scheme. It is defined by the information it conveys, its clarity, its comprehensiveness, its succinctness. It's best to use color sparingly, so when it appears, it really means something.

    We don't pay managers to use their computers (even in the US), we pay them to make wise decisions. One good decision they make is who they rely upon for their information, that is, who runs their OLAPs for them.

  22. TonyP17 says:

    @Alex. Thanks for the link to the Excel 2003 file which I have downloaded successfully. I have also downloaded the Sparklines add-in and will take a lokk when I have some time.
    I am still baffled, however, when you say that Link 1 above takes me to an xlsm Excel 2007. It downloads a zip file (data-visualization-challenge-alexkerin.zip) with many .xml and .rels files.

  23. cuboo says:

    @Jon: Good to read, that things are similar in the US - I do not live "behind the mountains" 🙂
    @Alex: I didn't see you last attempt, but I do not condemn pie charts totally. I like them as small multiples in a table, to visualize the distribution in rows or columns. For example here at the lower end: http://bit.ly/6ZiFJ0 ... or here: http://bit.ly/7JVtmj where I used them as a "traffic-light plus".

  24. Alex Kerin says:

    @Tony: your browser/operating system/virus software is preventing you downloading a macro laden file just in case it has viruses - instead it's packaging it as a a zip and screwing it up (I would guess)

    @cuboo: my pie charts are actually only the red bullets on the top table with some if statements - don't know why I used them instead of anything else - because I could?

    @Jon: Couldn't resist - here's your 'senior' dashboard - spot the egregious visualization mistakes: http://bit.ly/84lET6

  25. TonyP17 says:

    @Alex: something is clearly getting in the way. I have tried another PC at home with the same result.
    Unless you or someone else can help further I will have to speak to my IT manager. I have never had a problem downloading files before.
    Would you perhaps be able to create a valid zip file for me to download?

  26. cuboo says:

    @alex: gorgeous dashboard ... if you don't mind I will start all my presentations with this. I'm quite sure: parts of my audience will love the gauges and 3D-Charts.

  27. Faseeh says:

    @Mr. Chindoo....I am amazed how do U manage these things 🙂 ? It takes me an hour to compose an email...some times..
    @ Cuboo........a lovely chart.
    Also liked very much charts of Aris & Ajay for color complexion & that of Arti for the complex look that it gives.

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  30. Sntosh Chaube says:

    Hey Chandoo, you played Santa a bit late, thanks for this very wonderful New Year`s Gift

  31. Aires says:

    Woohoo! I've just come back from my vacation trip (I was afraid of losing senses due to computer abstinence 🙂 ), and am able to see such a delightful set of templates. Thanks everyone, and particularly Chandoo for putting it all together.

    I am not going to vote on anyone, because I am also part of the competition (in fact, it's because it's too hard to choose a better dashboard, but justifying by the moral argument sounds better. :o) ). What I would really appreciate, however, is feedback about what I should do to make my charts better (I am particularly curious to understand why Jon left me out his favourite list 🙂 ). As I told Chandoo before, I am really looking after learning about how can I do better dashboards. So, please, help me by criticizing my dashboard. 🙂

    All the best, and a great 2010 to all of us!

  32. Fabrice says:

    @ Tony17. Some browsers rename the XLAM files downloaded from Sourceforge or Box.net into "XLAM.ZIP"
    Delete the ".zip" extension and things should work out properly or visit
    sparklines-excel.blogspot.com for alternative download links.

  33. keyblanks says:

    Beautiful job,

    I haven't walked through this yet,

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  35. Jpablo says:

    hi everyone, I'm amazed how far can U all get with this challenge
    I want to learn too many thing from here, congrats to all participants and people commenting on this
    single question: I've downloaded some files for excel 2003 but I haven't been able to select a "total" instead of just one Sales Person... my error?
    if so, please tell me how to navigate some of the dashboards aboard starting on the big picture/figure
    regards from Chile
    Jp

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  39. zzz says:

    wanted to look at #13, but the file is protected and has a password - so i can play with the dashboard but not see how it is made, which sort of defeats the purpose... any suggestions? 🙂

  40. zzz says:

    oops, never mind, found it (cell B31). a light-gray note on a white background is particularly easy to see! 🙂

  41. fred says:

    I need someone to do a sahboard for me if i supply the data. It is a sales dash board - How much could I expect to pay

    • Chandoo says:

      @Fred... Depends on your dashboard. Based on my experience, a typical dashboard takes 6-8 hours of construction time, if the data and outputs are clearly specified. Now, the rates depend on the consultant. I charge $75 per hour, so you can expect to pay roughly $500 if you hire me. Let me know if you are interested.

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  43. baran says:

    hi
    veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy good

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  45. hellomoto says:

    In Option 24, how are the four main kpi circles made? That is, those pictures can be moved along with the data inside the picture and they are not groups of objects. So what are they? Are they results of using the Camera tool?

    I like the ease of moving them around.

  46. Hui... says:

    @Hellomoto
    The 4 Circles are in fact camera tools
    The Left most, Best Qtr 2008, is linked to a hidden sheet Control via the formula =Control!$G$16:$I$25
    Unhide the sheet and go to that area
    You will see a circle with a cell reference and a Title and box outline

  47. hellomoto says:

    Thanks Hui. Just did what you suggested and now I am a bit bummed. I thought the circles were cool and thought that the color would change due to the value. But they are fixed objects (i.e. the colors don't change only the numbers do).

    oh well, i am now inspired to use those colored circles and figure out how to switch between them to show status. Do you have any suggestions on how I might do that (use custom objects as the traffic lights, instead of the standard conditional formatting ones)?

  48. hellomoto says:

    Thanks Hui, I will read it today.

  49. Ganesh says:

    One quick question on Dashboards..
    Can we export these to Powerpoint and do a presentation as we do in Excel?

    Pls ..

    • Chandoo says:

      @Ganesh... You can take snapshots of the dashboards and put them in PPT. But if you want full interactive experience, opening them in Excel is your best bet.

  50. Andy says:

    I made a kick ass dashboard based on my learning from here.....How do I attach the pdf so that others can see what I made......let me know plz.

  51. BigRon says:

    A big thanks to everyone who shares his excel-files! Very useful for noobs like me 😉

  52. Michael says:

    Excel is very useful for building dashboards (among other things).

    If your company is calculating sales commissions in Excel I have found a tool which takes your commissions spreadsheet and generates custom reports for you. I know Excel has their own reports they don't have any sales specific functions.

    Check out the tool at http://www.oneclickcommissions.com/cha.html

    Thanks for all the documents everyone.

    -Michael

  53. Mathew Patrick says:

    Thanks for getting this compiled, sorted,.. to the point etc(overwhelmed with what i have found on this page.. cant find words).. I now know, how to get started to report a great\WOW looking sales DashBoard .. couldnt have done without this page. Thanks Again!!

  54. Sulabh says:

    Great Site different from the rest.

  55. Amer Al Fawakheery says:

    Great job, thanks for the site manager and for everybody who contribute in this wonderful files.

  56. Brijraj says:

    Hey Chandoo,
    first of all thank you very much for giving us such a nice website.
    your excel templates are too helpful for me in data analysis.
    some graphs became handy for me after i learn it from template.
    thank you again.....
    your work is really appreciable...

  57. florencedhalia says:

    wonderful site! thanks for the file sharing

  58. Thomas says:

    I cannot open the links at work because it is blocked on my cpu. Would it be possible to have these emailed to me - tbutler515@gmail.com. Many thanks.

  59. Ata Betero says:

    Greetings!

    It seems problematic downloading the above. I am not sure what caused it. I hope to hear solutions from you if possible. Anyway I am downloading spreadsheets for teachers and it seems working fine. It is still yet completed but I will comment on it once downloaded.

    Thank you

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    What a exhalant excel supporter u r sir
     

  65. I like the:  Excel based Sales Dashboard by Pawel (Option 26)

    I clicked on the download option, but it is password protected.  It does not allow me to make modifications to any of the fields. I contacted Chandoo, and was asked to comment here to receive a reply from "Pawel" in order to find out more on how I can use this dashboard for my use.  Thank you.  

    • Zofia says:

      I like the: Excel based Sales Dashboard by Aires (Option 02)
      I clicked on the download option, but I have the same problem like Luis-Alejandro - it is password protected. It does not allow me to make modifications to any of the fields. WIll you enable me to use this dashbort for my use. I would be very greatful

  66. Suan Yang says:

    I like Excel based Sales Dashboard by Duezzz (Option 08)
    But like Luis-Alejandro, I faced the same problem of not being able to download the file because it's password-portected. Please let me know what I should do in order to download this excel template. Thank you very much!!

  67. [...] that a sales dashboard constructed in Microsoft Excel can have, visit the post titled “32 Examples of Sales Dashboards” at Chandoo.org. This post is literally the largest grouping of excel sales dashboards [...]

  68. marius says:

    great compilation...however duezz's dashboard is not downloadable anymore and pawel's is password protected.... why would you protect it ? i thought the whole idea was to share the info and to learn something new...

  69. sergio says:

    Duezzz file is no longer available. Such a pity.

  70. Kelly says:

    I like the : Excel based Sales Dashboard by Pawel (Option 26).
    The date range is useful for my work but I am unable to access the hidden sheet 'calcs' due to password protected. Appreciated if you could please email to me the password 🙂

  71. Ally says:

    Matt Cloves - I really like your dashboard! Can someone tell me how you were able to link the multiple selection criteria into your sumif function? I'm trying to build a dashboard that allows the user to select multiple months and then create a graph based on those months selected. Help!!

  72. Ricky Dobriyal says:

    Hi Chandoo,

    I am very glad that I visited your website and now I can say I have learnt so many things because of you. Thank you so much for such valuable information you provided. I have few question related to VBA and would really appreciate it you could help me.

    1-How we can connect to mysql database using VBA.?
    2-As these dashboard are dynamic (https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=b663e096d6c08c74&id=B663E096D6C08C74!361) . Could you advise me please how can make such a good dashboard like one of your example for cricket world cup one.

    I would really appreciate your valuable time and advise.

    Thanks,
    Ricky Dobriyal

  73. Aun says:

    i want to download Excel based Sales Dashboard by Esteban (Option 10) but i can't. Help Please!

  74. Desimber Rose says:

    Hello! This is a great resource! I am trying to use Dashboard #11 created by Hernan but I am having trouble getting the graphs to represent the data I'm entering. When I hit Refresh Data the graphs go away. I am no where near an expert with this so I know it's something I'm doing wrong. Your help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks!

  75. some1wife says:

    I also like the Excel based Sales Dashboard by Pawel (Option 26). But
    the data cannot change and password protected. Appreciated if you could please email to me the password, really thanks for your help^^

  76. Hesham K says:

    Hello,

    I am trying to download Sales Dashboard by Alex Kerin (Option 04), but link expired. Can you please send active link.

    Thanks

  77. […] Chandoo has many sales dashboards to help you visualize and interpret sales data to adjust your strategies and better understand the impact your tactics are having on your bottom line. There are numerous Javascript-based and Excel-based dashboards to download for free. […]

  78. trupti says:

    Hi,

    Could you please help me with samples of Price trend charts

    As in my org. We have different prices( Some times two OR More price points for one customer in One region). & same applies to our competitors also. So we need to compare our price trend & our competitors price trend of each product for all customers region wise for each month.

    Please suggest...

  79. Mireya Cirilo says:

    I’m still learning from you, as I’m trying to reach my goals. I absolutely liked reading all that is posted on your site.Keep the information coming. I loved it!

  80. Theron Schmiesing says:

    I have been absent for a while, but now I remember why I used to love this blog. Thank you, I'll try and check back more often. How frequently you update your website?

  81. Brian Estes says:

    I am trying to download the dashboard titled Excel based Sales Dashboard by Duezzz (Option 08) but the link is expired. This would be a great starting point for our business sales tracking chart. Could you please send active link?

  82. Tony says:

    Some helpful fun examples to get us thinking, thanks!

    A proof reader would be helpful for you.
    Spell checkers do not find correctly spelt words in the wrong place.

    Very cleaver use (clever):
    Gives me an interesting picture of a butcher chopping up a dashboard with his cleaver.
    From another page: for those who are weary of downloading (wary)
    Us poor people get tired of exhausting downloads,
    Surely it is more tiring to copy the code into an Excel module?

  83. hosna says:

    Hi
    some of download links are disabled. for example dashboard number 9, 11 to 16 and ....
    please reload the source file
    thank u so much

  84. […] all information needs as identified in Rule #1. For some inspiration, see these pages •    Sales Dashboards – 32 Examples •    Simple KPI Dashboard in Excel •    33 Resources for making better […]

  85. Shekhar Sahu says:

    My personal favourite is option 23 by Matt Cloves. Its a very vibrant and rich chart, yet it looks neat.

  86. Mehta says:

    Could you pl. guide on how to create dashboard without using pivot & slicer?

  87. Saman says:

    Many thanks for your perfect dashboards, hope update with new inspiring dashboards.

  88. jaydeep says:

    I need combination of option 5 & option 31 to prepare my dashboard.

    Could you please help me to prepare it.

  89. satta matka says:

    I just found this blog and have high hopes for it to continue. Keep up the great work, its hard to find good ones. I have added to my favorites. Thank You.

  90. Randolph Jasnen says:

    It seems that none of the direct links work any longer (I've tried about 12 of them.

    Are you hearing this, or do you think it's on my end.

    • Chandoo says:

      Hey... the files on this contest were hosted on various links by participants. I am sure most of them have expired by now. I will have to look thru my backups to see if I got a zip file somewhere. Give me 2 weeks.

  91. Thanks for getting this compiled, sorted,.. to the point etc(overwhelmed with what i have found on this page.. cant find words).. I now know, how to get started to report a great\WOW looking sales DashBoard .. couldnt have done without this page. Thanks Again!!

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  95. ricky says:

    Please, download file error onedrive 😉

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