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title: "Category Bar Chart Widget"
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updated: 2026-03-19T14:18:27Z
published: 2026-03-19T14:18:27Z
canonical: "docs.bazefield.com/category-bar-chart-1-1-1"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Category Bar Chart Widget

## **Introduction**

### **Description**

The **Category Bar Chart Widget** is a horizontal bar chart visualization used to display **aggregated or real-time metric values for a single asset**, grouped by **custom-defined categories**. Functionally similar to the **Asset Metric Chart Widget**, it presents each metric as a horizontal bar, allowing users to compare multiple data points side-by-side within grouped categories for improved readability and insight.

### **Purpose**

This widget helps renewable energy professionals analyze and compare multiple metrics within a single asset. By grouping metrics into logical categories, users can better understand the distribution of values and identify dominant contributors to performance issues or inefficiencies.

### **Target Audience**

- **Business Users**: Asset managers, performance analysts, and operations leads seeking a clear breakdown of asset-level metrics by category.
- **Technical Users**: Engineers and dashboard designers configuring diagnostic views for loss analysis or performance summaries.

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## **Key Features & Use Cases**

### **1. Horizontal Bar Layout**

Displays each metric as a horizontal bar, improving readability—especially when comparing many values.

**Use Case – Solar Inverter Loss Breakdown** A dashboard shows weekly energy losses for a single inverter, grouped into:

- **Environmental Losses**: Temperature, Shading, Snow
- **Forced Losses**: Grid, Balance of Plant (BOP), System Faults This layout allows asset managers to quickly identify which loss types are most significant.

### **2. Category Grouping**

Metrics can be grouped into user-defined categories for clearer organization and contextual analysis.

### **3. Metric Comparison for a Single Asset**

Designed to compare multiple metrics for one asset, making it ideal for detailed asset-level analysis.

**Use Case – Wind Turbine Downtime Analysis** A dashboard shows downtime hours grouped by cause (e.g., Grid Curtailment, Mechanical Fault, Weather) for a single turbine. This helps operations teams focus on the most frequent downtime drivers.

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## **Widget Use in BI App Types**

### **Use in Dashboards**

The Category Bar Chart Widget is available **exclusively in Dashboard BI Apps**, where it provides **granular, asset-level breakdowns** of performance metrics. It is particularly useful for diagnostic views and operational summaries.

> [!WARNING]
> **Note:** This widget is **not available in Reports**. For historical comparisons across categories in reports, consider using tabular summaries or time-series visualizations grouped by category.

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Category Bar Chart grouping lost energy data points (Actual, Recoverable, Budgeted) by user-defined categories