views_charts is the best Drupal charting solution

I am also interested with this module. It would be really nice if I could plot a graph of a field versus another field.

Cheers,

Sinan

etcetera9,

and you can not?

I tried but I couldnt. Maybe it is because I am using a relationship to get some values to the fields. But I couldnt manage to put one field's values to X axis and the others to the Y axis. When I make a table view, every value is appeared correctly. But when I select chart, data is not shown correctly.

I cannot find detailed documentation about preparing a chart view. If I manage to make it work, I can happily write a tutorial or something..

What exactly happens?

Chart display will not show you chart in the preview. You have to create a block or a page display and view it in the final destination (at a page or as a block embedded somewhere).

Google and Fusion charts were appearing on preview. But they were only working for some fields but not for others. Also the free version of Fusioncharts was displaying "no data to display". But i didnt try to see the results on a page or block. Tomorrow I shall try it.

Maybe Views Cals is the cause. I tried several examples with Views Calc type view and it is not working with some fields. But actually I dont need any aggregation on data. I just need to plot a field versus another field graph.

Cheers,

Sinan

Hi,

I was in a real big confusion before. I was using Charts module and I related it with Views Charts module but I was wrong.

Now I am using Charts and Graphs module with Views Charts. But I cannot see the swf on the page. Neither with views or with a custom php block which is an example on the module's page. (I installed SWFObject API.)

Can you please provide SWFObject API version, version of the browser and the version of SWFObject javascript you downloaded?

Are you seeing any errors at all?

My first guess it that the versions of the dependencies have changed and something broke. I will try to debug, if you tell me more about your environment.

Thank you!

Ohh... Sometimes I miss such essential things!! Now I just downloaded javascript files for SWF object API. And graphs shows as desired. I also added some relationships, and the module was successful showing different values from different tables... My specs:

Charts Core API: 6.x-1.0-alpha4
SWF Object API: 6.x-1.0-beta1
SWF Object javascript: 2.2

Here is an example of the charts on my site: http://www.sahandafutbol.com/charts This graph show the users' points in descending order...

I have some questions though:

1. I cannot set the minimum value of Y axis. It just starts from the lowest value of the data even if I set "Min value of Y Axis:" as 1 or 0 or something (You can see in the example).

2. Is it possible to theme the appearance of swf? Change colors, fonts or anything else? I see some theming options on the project site: http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/background.php Are they applicable? If so, where am I writing the code?

3. Will there be more options to charts (line, scatter etc) ? Is it a hard job? If there is any brute labor needed I am willing to help. I am good at Actionscript but beginner at PHP and Javascript.

This way, the module looks very promising. After doing some more tests with other values, maybe I can write a tutorial page for the module.

Thanks,

Sinan

For my 1. question:

I made it work by just adding a line to the charts_openflash.inc file which can be found in the Charts and Graphs module folder (charts_graphs/apis/charts_openflash):

$min_value = $canvas->y_min;

just after the lines:

$obj->values = $val;
$max_value_arr = max($val);
$max_value = ($max_value < $max_value_arr) ? $max_value_arr : $max_value;
$min_value_arr = min($val);
$min_value = ($min_value > $min_value_arr) ? $min_value_arr : $min_value;

Now I can just write the min value of the Y axis in the Views options window :)

Correct.. I edited it in my comment... Thanks.

For using the line chart option with OpenFlash see this issue: http://drupal.org/node/563682

to etcetera9 and awakenedvoice: it works for me too. Thank a lot!

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