The custom bar chart widget is able to bring data using a database connection and a SQL query and display a bar chart from the resulting data.

Once you drag a the custom bar chart to the dashboard designer canvas, hover over the widget and click the edit icon.  Edit icon should display the following configuration screen for the widget:

Let's say we want the graph to display the top 10 users with most activity from FlowWright as a bar graph.  Then select an existing connection to the FlowWright database, or if a connection doesn't exist, create one and select it.

Enter the following SQL statement for the SQL query input field:

SELECT TOP 10 U.deExternalUserFullName as Name, COUNT(H.entryID) AS numOfHighestActivity 

FROM deItemHistory H INNER JOIN deUsers U ON U.deUserID=H.itemID 

GROUP BY H.itemID,U.deExternalUserFullName ORDER BY numOfHighestActivity DESC

Click the "Save" button to save the configuration.  Click the preview icon on the widget to preview the bar chart.  Preview should display the following: