--- a/charts.xml	Fri Feb 27 02:43:07 2015 -0500
+++ b/charts.xml	Fri Feb 27 03:24:52 2015 -0500
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
             <option value="histogram">histogram</option>
             <option value="histogramdiscrete">histogramdiscrete</option>
         </param>
-        <param name="columns" type="text" label="Columns string (i.e key1: column, key2: column)" value="column: 2"/>
-        <param name="settings" type="text" label="Options string (i.e data_limit: 1000)" value=""/>
+        <param name="columns" type="text" area="true" label="Columns string (i.e key1: column, key2: column)" value="column: 2"/>
+        <param name="settings" type="text" area="true" label="Options string (i.e data_limit: 1000)" value=""/>
     </inputs>
     <outputs>
         <data name="output" format="tabular" />