Assistants can build dashboards worth looking at
Your assistants can now use every panel Ward can draw — thirteen kinds of chart, plus document and file panels — instead of defaulting to tables and lists.
· Improvement
Ward has always been able to draw more than tables. Your assistants didn’t know that.
When an assistant built itself a dashboard, it was choosing from a short list — a table, a list, a couple of others — even though Ward could render far more. So a tracker following a number over six weeks gave you a column of numbers, because a line chart was never on the menu it was reading from.
That list is now the full one. Assistants can reach for:
- Thirteen kinds of chart — lines, bars, areas and the rest — with control over labelling, number formatting, and marking a point worth calling out.
- Document and file panels, for output that reads better as a written piece or lands as something you download.
- Layout and placement, so a dashboard can put the thing you care about where you’ll see it first.
You don’t have to do anything. An assistant that rebuilds its dashboard will use whatever fits the data it has; if a table was already the right answer, you’ll still get a table.
The one thing to know: these are choices an assistant makes about its own output. If it picks a shape you don’t like, telling it so in chat is the way to change it.