Dial and speedometer reports
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
- 9 minutes to read
- Yokohama
- Reporting
Dials and speedometers provide a real-time count for an indicator. These charts cannot contain comparison or historical data. You can configure colors to display at a glance that values are within specified ranges.
Report creators often use red to indicate unacceptable value ranges. A low value for monthly sales is worse than a high value, but a low value for incident resolution times is better than a high value. You can configure red for low monthly sales values and red for high incident resolution values.
- A speedometer shows numbers in the form of a round meter with a defined range.
- A dial shows where a score falls across ranges on a half-circle dial.


Create a dial or speedometer report
Create a dial or speedometer to provide a real-time count for an indicator, with colors to indicate value ranges.
Before you begin
Role required: itil, report_user, report_group, report_global, report_admin, or admin. To create a meaningful report, you must have the right to access the data you want to report on.
Procedure
What to do next
- Select the Report info icon (
) and add a description of the report.
- Select the sharing icon (
) to open the Sharing menu. On this menu, you can add the report to a dashboard, export the report to PDF, publish the report to the web, and set visibility and schedules.
Dial and speedometer report style options
Change the look of your dial or speedometer report.
When you create or edit a report, click the Style tab for options to configure the look of your report. The options are organized under two or more of the following tabs: General, Title, Legend, and Axis. To see how the report looks with the changed settings, click Save.
Field | Description |
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General | |
Chart color (dial chart only) | A predefined system color for the dial. |
Set color | Color used in the report. This field displays when you select Use one color from the Chart color list. Click the search icon (![]() |
Custom chart size | Check box to specify the width and height of the report in pixels. Note: The
chart size is ignored when you export the report to PDF. In PDFs, the full page
width is used to show the chart. |
Chart width | Width of the report in pixels. The default value is 600. This field is available when Custom chart size is selected. |
Chart height | Height of the report in pixels. The default value is 450. This field appears when Custom chart size is selected. |
Chart size | Chart size. This field is available when Custom chart
size is cleared. Options are Small,
Medium, and Large. Note: The chart
size is ignored when you export the report to PDF. In PDFs, the full page width
is used to show the chart. |
Direction | Choose whether lower or larger numbers are better. Select
Minimize if lower numbers are better. Select
Maximize if larger numbers are better. This setting works
with Lower Limit and Upper Limit,
which determine the colors for the areas in the dial or speedometer.
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Lower limit | The lower threshold for color change on the dial or speedometer. If it uses only two colors, specify the same number for both lower and upper limits. |
Upper limit | The upper threshold for color change on the dial or
speedometer. If it uses only two colors, specify the same number for both lower and
upper limits. For example, a dial contains a current score of 50 and Dial Autoscale is selected. The Lower Limit is set to 50 and Upper Limit is set to 100 and the direction is Minimize. The dial displays the area 0–50 in green, the area 50–100 in orange, and the area above 100 in red. If Lower Limit is set to 50, Upper Limit is set to 100 and the direction is Maximize, the colors are reversed. If no upper and lower limits have been set, no colors are used in the visualization. If you want to have only two section or colors, you can set the upper and lower limits to the same number. |
Dial autoscale | Check box to automatically generate start and end values for the dial or speedometer based on the selected data. |
From | Custom minimum value to display on the left side of the dial or speedometer. This field is available when Dial Autoscale is cleared. |
To | Custom maximum value to display on the right side of the dial or speedometer. This field is available when Dial Autoscale is cleared. |
Drilldown view | List view to show when a user selects a segment of a report for which no
drilldown report type is specified. This view is also used when the user reaches
the lowest drilldown level of a report. See Configure the list
layout
. If you specify a Report
drilldown, Drilldown view is
ignored. For more information, see Define a report drilldown. |
Decimal precision | Number of decimal places to show. You can show
from zero to four decimal places. Default value: 2. To change the default value,
create the system property glide.chart.decimal.precision and specify the value.
Note: Percentage labels do not change accordingly with the decimal precision
specified.
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Title | |
Show chart title | When the chart title is shown for the report.
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Chart title | The chart title has a maximum length of 40 characters. If no title is entered, the report name is used for the title. This field appears when Report only or Always is selected from the Show chart title list. |
Size of the chart title | Size of the chart title in pixels. This field appears when Report only or Always is selected from the Show chart title list. |
Chart title color | Color of the chart title. This field appears when Report only or Always is selected from the Show chart title list. |
Custom chart title position | Check box to specify X and Y coordinates for the position of the chart title. This field appears when Report only or Always is selected from the Show chart title list. |
Chart title X position | Number of pixels to adjust the chart title position right or left. By default
the title appears at the center top of the chart. To move the chart title to the
right, enter a positive value. To move the title to the left, enter a negative
value. This field appears only when Custom chart title position is selected. |
Chart title Y position | Number of pixels to adjust the chart title position up or down. By default
the title appears at the center top of the chart. To move up the chart title,
enter a positive value. To move the chart title down, enter a negative
value. This field appears only when Custom chart title position is selected. |
Title horizontal alignment | How the chart title is aligned horizontally. This field is available when the Custom chart title position option is cleared. |
Title vertical alignment | How the chart title is aligned vertically. This field appears when Custom chart title position is cleared. |