Charting is in!
Virtually since our first public release we have constantly heard users complaining about not being able to plot charts and graphs on EditGrid. This has turned a few users away.
We do recognise this is a very important feature — indeed, many spreadsheet users make spreadsheets solely for plotting a chart. Unlike our competitors we opt not to release this early, for good reason: without a solid infrastructure for the basic functionalities, such as real-time update, the “power features” as we call them would only make things worse.
So here we present EditGrid’s charting functionalities — the most complete in the market, we believe, with more than 30 types of charts for you to choose. We understand that it is not perfect, yet — there are still a few bugs in our mind when we release it — but we believe that it is complete enough for most users to create a decent chart.
And our users are already starting to take advantage of this new feature. Take a look at the following chart by our user graphoilogy from the GraphOilogy blog:
The best thing among all is that EditGrid’s charts incorporate EditGrid’s collaboration features that make EditGrid unique. Changes are RTU’d, so your colleague’s edit on the source data would be automatically reflected in the chart on your screen. Each chart comes with its unique permalink, so you may post a chart separately on your blog.
As a side note: let’s congratulate all contributors to the German translation spreadsheet whose efforts have directly led to the roll-out of EditGrid’s German version. EditGrid is now available in seven languages thanks to all contributors under the ELP.
Once again: charting is in!
