A widget is empty on the dashboard but works in Search
The dashboard time range filters it. Widen the range, or clear the widget's time column.
Some widgets follow the time range and others don't
Only widgets with a time column are filtered. The red clock icon marks the ones without one.
Edit Chart is disabled
The widget has no data. Fix the time column or the range first.
Numbers are lower than expected
Your SQL filters time and you nominated that column as the time column, so the filters stack. Or a bar limit dropped the remaining bars. Or a pivot hit its column cap.
The chart's bars changed after I chose Ascending
With Ascending, the bar limit keeps the smallest bars.
I edited the query, but the dashboard didn't change
Widgets are copies. Edits never flow between the query and the dashboard.
My dashboard isn't in the Add to dashboard list
The list shows only dashboards you created. Select Make a copy on someone else's dashboard first.
A filter column is missing
Filters offer only the columns returned by every widget's query.
The preview doesn't match the created widget
The preview is computed locally from sample rows. Trust the widget.
Chart cannot be displayed
The chart has more than 1,500 data points. Limit the bars or coarsen the grouping.
Refresh is greyed out
Someone refreshed this dashboard in the last hour.
Last updated changed but nobody refreshed
A scheduled email re-ran the widget queries.
Sharing failed
One of the private queries behind the widgets can't be shared by you.
Search and notebooks
Symptom
Cause
My SQL disappeared when I switched the data type
By design: switching discards the SQL and the prompt.
Analytics SQL fails with an odd error
Analytics is PostgreSQL. Read the end of the PG Query syntax error message. Avoid a literal %.
A notebook's Save is disabled for no visible reason
A cell reference is broken, usually because a cell was renamed.
A cell's Run Query is disabled
A cell it references hasn't been run yet in this session.
A notebook lost all its cells
Its data type was switched. Reload the page instead of saving.