Contribute a chart

Add a chart using the GitHub UI

1. In the index folder of the carbon-website GitHub repo, open your team folder. Create a folder if your team doesn’t have one yet.

2. Click Add file (top right), then Create new file.

3. Name your file chart-name.yml, where chart-name is the name of your chart.

4. Copy and paste the following template into the Edit new file section of the page and fill out the correct information for your component.

   name: chart name
   website_url: >-
     url of documentation / guidance page (if any)
   code_url: >-
     url of component code on GitHub (if any)
   maintainer: name of maintainer team
   description: >-
     short description of purpose and usage of chart
   chart_type: choose one of Comparisons | Trends | Part-to-whole | Correlations | Connections | Geospatial | Other
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5. Once done, click the green Commit new file button at the bottom.

1. Go back to your team folder in the index.
2. Inside your team folder, open the images folder.
3. In the top right, click Add file then Upload files to upload your image to that page then submit the PR. Note: name your image file with the same name as the chart (e.g. chart-name.png to match component-name.yml). Your image should be 320px x 240px.