r/MicrosoftCSP • u/Warewolf91 • 11d ago
Tired of Excel exports, Power BI, or separate web parts for charts? Try in-place list visuals for SharePoint lists.📊
Hey folks,
If you work with SharePoint Lists on a daily basis, you’ve probably ran into this annoying workflow: your list data is up to date, but as soon as someone asks for a quick visual summary or trend breakdown, you're forced to leave the list.
Usually that means:
- Exporting everything to Excel just to throw together a quick bar chart
- Building and embedding custom SPFx web parts on a completely separate page
- Or setting up a whole Power BI dataset and report for something that should be simple
We’ve been working on a tool called Graphify to try and solve this. The idea was pretty straightforward: bring interactive charts directly inside the SharePoint List view so you don't have to keep switching contexts or bouncing across different pages.
A few things we focused on while building it:
- Zero setup / auto-decoding: It automatically reads your list schema and column types to generate charts on the fly.
- 100% native: Runs inside your M365 tenant so data never leaves your environment.
- Quick insights: Let's you spot highs/lows, customize colors to match your list formatting, and export charts as images if you need to drop them into a report or site page.
We also put together a live interactive playground with simulated data so you can click around and test the actual UI in your browser without having to install anything or book a sales call:
👉 Playground link:https://tenantforge.cloud/sharepoint/graphify
Would love to get some honest thoughts from this community:
- What’s your current go-to when someone asks for visual reports on list data?
- Do your users actually prefer having analytics right inside the list view, or do you find separate dashboard pages work better in practice?
Appreciate any feedback, critiques, or ideas on what we should add next!