How to display the locale and a custom field in your archive

In the Datawrapper archive, you can add output locale (e.g en-US, de-DE), special IDs, and notes on your visualization thumbnails (in the grid view) or as an extra column (in list view). This article explains how to do so. 

How to show the locale in your archive 

Let's say you have the same visualizations in multiple languages that are hard to distinguish from each other just by looking at the thumbnails. You can configure to display the locale on your visualizations to distinguish them and quickly find the visualization in a specific language. To do so, go to your ① archive (here's a direct link if you're logged in). Open the ② View options in either grid or list view, then select ③ Locale. This will display the locale in the lower left of each visualization thumbnail in the grid view, or as an extra column in the list view:

How to show a custom field in your archive

Custom fields are only available to users of Custom or Enterprise plan

To display a custom field, you first need to create one. Once that's done, you can decide to display it in the archive. Here's how: 

If you're the team owner or team admin, go to your team settings by clicking on ☰ in the upper right and then My teams (here's a direct link if you're logged in.). Select your team. This will bring you into the team settings of your team.

Now click on ①  Archive, turn on ② Show custom field, and then ③ select which one you want to show if you have multiple ones set up

If you go back to the ① Archive and open the ② View options in either grid or list view, you'll be able to select and de-select the ③ the custom field you just decided to display:

That's it! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to support@datawrapper.de.