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Tractorscope charts documentation
Learn how to build, style, query, and manage Tractorscope charts, including chart configuration, colors, history, caching, and field mapping.
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Chart types guide
Choose the right Tractorscope chart type, including bar, stacked bar, grouped bar, waterfall, bar-line combo, line, area, pie, radar, number, table, pivot table, map, heatmap, download, gallery, text, image, and alert charts.
Creating charts with SQL
Create Tractorscope charts by writing SQL queries, browsing database schema, running queries, mapping result columns to chart fields, and saving dashboard visualizations.
Creating charts with AI
Use Tractorscope AI chart generation to create charts from natural-language prompts, inspect generated SQL, choose chart types, and refine visual settings.
Chart field mapping
Map Tractorscope SQL query result columns to chart fields, layers, series, axes, values, labels, and table columns.
Charts
Chart types guide
Choose the right Tractorscope chart type, including bar, stacked bar, grouped bar, waterfall, bar-line combo, line, area, pie, radar, number, table, pivot table, map, heatmap, download, gallery, text, image, and alert charts.
Choosing the right chart type
Choose the best Tractorscope chart type for KPIs, trends, comparisons, composition, tables, maps, downloads, and alerts.
Creating charts with SQL
Create Tractorscope charts by writing SQL queries, browsing database schema, running queries, mapping result columns to chart fields, and saving dashboard visualizations.
Creating charts with AI
Use Tractorscope AI chart generation to create charts from natural-language prompts, inspect generated SQL, choose chart types, and refine visual settings.
Chart field mapping
Map Tractorscope SQL query result columns to chart fields, layers, series, axes, values, labels, and table columns.
Chart series and layers
Understand Tractorscope chart series and layers, including how SQL query columns map to bars, lines, pie slices, radar values, and other visual elements.
Chart styling and branding
Style Tractorscope charts with colors, labels, legends, tooltips, axes, backgrounds, borders, margins, points, and brand color groups.
Chart history and versioning
Use Tractorscope chart history to review previous chart query and configuration changes, including AI-generated chart prompts.
Chart caching and refresh behavior
Understand how Tractorscope chart cache TTL, manual refresh, query result caching, and embedded dashboard refresh behavior affect data freshness and database load.
Chart cache time to live
Configure chart cache time to live in Tractorscope to control how long query results are cached before charts refresh from the database.
Add or edit color groups
Create and manage Tractorscope color groups so charts can use consistent brand palettes and reusable series colors across an account.
Applying color theme to a series
Apply a Tractorscope color theme to chart series so chart colors stay consistent across dashboards and visualizations.