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To change a chart, a scorecard, or any other Canvas block, tell Ari what you want, such as stacked bars instead of a line, or one segment instead of all of them. Canvas blocks are the custom visuals Ari builds from your Model’s data, and they have no code editor. If a Page already has a chart block, you can also restyle it yourself in its sidebar.
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Point Ari at the block

Hover the block and select Mention in chat at its top corner, or open the block’s menu from the six-dot handle at its left edge and choose Mention canvas in chat. The block appears in the message box as a chip.
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Point at one part, if the change is small

To change one bar, number, label, or control, select Select element at the block’s corner and then click that part. It joins the message box as its own chip, so Ari changes that part and leaves the rest alone.
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Describe the change

Say what you want to see, and send:
Turn this into stacked bars by customer segment.
Make this bar orange and start the axis at zero.
Show this quarterly instead of monthly.
Ari changes the block in place, so it keeps its position on the Page. A blank Canvas block offers Mention block in chat instead, so Ari can build it from your description. To learn how Ari checks a visual it changed, see How Ari checks a visual.

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Keep a control’s setting

Sliders, toggles, and menus in a Canvas block change only what you see, unless the block was built to save that setting. If a setting goes back when you reload the Page, ask Ari to keep it:
Make this chart remember whether I pick monthly or quarterly.
A saved setting belongs to that block in that Scenario, so everyone who opens the Page in that Scenario sees it. A control never changes a value in your Model. To change an assumption, such as a hiring date, edit it in a Table block or ask Ari. See Pages, Table blocks, and Canvas blocks.

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If a block shows an error

  • If the block says This block failed to render., select Fix to hand the block to Ari.
  • If it says the block didn’t start or was still loading its libraries, the block’s software did not finish loading. Select Retry.
  • If it says the block’s data failed to load, select Mention in chat and ask Ari to check the data the block reads.
Every Canvas block message is listed in The cfo.ai interface.