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databricks Platform · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text

Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting.

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What it does

Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or type markdown directly. Visualization widgets render your dashboard datasets as charts.

Why it matters

Scale function: Choose Linear or Log (Symmetric).

Key capabilities
Alphabetical: Sort category names alphabetically
Alphabetical: Sort category names alphabetically
By field: Sort by a
By field: Sort by a measure field value in ascending or descending order. After selecting the sort direction, choose which field…
Y axis: Sort by the
Y axis: Sort by the measure field displayed on the Y axis
Field: Sort by any other
Field: Sort by any other measure field in the dataset, even if it's not displayed on the chart. Select the field from the…
Architecture
Databricks Platform → Platform
In short

Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or type markdown directly.

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Key takeaway
Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting.
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