Share Charts

InstaCharts allows you to easily share charts and data with others. Charts are shared through url links. You can then send the link to anyone, even if they don’t have an InstaCharts account.

You can create charts on the fly using templates, which help cut down the number of parameters specified through our chart generation API.

To share a chart, first make sure you are logged into your InstaCharts account. If you don’t have an account, sign up here.

Share & Templates Dialog

To open the Share & Templates dialog, click the Share button on the main toolbar. The Share dialog is also accessible through the File Menu.

Share your charts and data tables using the Share & Templates Dialog

Share Interactive Chart

On the left side menu of the Share dialog, make sure Share Chart is selected.

Share Mode

There are two share modes accessed via the share toggle switch:

• Private (Only you can access)
• Public (Anyone with link can access)

To share your chart, toggle the share mode to Public. Anyone with the url will be able to view your interactive chart (no account needed).

If you no longer wish to share this chart, set it to private.

To share a chart with someone, copy the Interactive Chart URL and send it to them.

Note

Anyone viewing a chart in public share mode will be able to see all the data in the sheet and be able to change all the chart options. Their changes will not persist.

Share Options

If the chart is currently shared, options appear that allow you to customize the share.

This chart is currently shared

Show Data

If this toggle is enabled, the data tab will be shown within the shared chart.

Show Chart

Sometimes you may want to share just data. Toggle Show Chart to the off position to share a data table only.

Show Editor Controls

Sometimes a dataset is best represented by multiple charts instead of just one. Enable the editor controls to allow a viewer to change chart axis, chart type and many other chart settings to change the chart that is displayed.

This shared chart has the editor controls enabled, with both chart and data views enabled

Title

Optionally change the title of the shared chart

Embed in a webpage

Charts can also be embedded into webpages. Under Embed in a webpage, copy the Embed Tag and paste it into an html webpage.

Note

The embed tag is an iframe; paste the tag into html.

Share Chart Image

You can also share static chart images with others. These images will automatically update with any changes made to the underlying chart.

Much like shared interactive charts above, shared images can either be shared via a url link or embedded into a website.

Currently shared images are only available in .png format.

Share static chart images using Share Image on the Share & Templates window

Templates

The last tab of the Share & Templates window allows you to create templates to simplify the chart generation through an API process.