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Multi-series Stacked Column 2D chart looks as under: |
Sample XML / JSON for Multi-series Stacked Column 2D chart: |
<chart caption='Break-up of Annual Revenue' subcaption='In Million $' xaxisname='Year' Yaxisname='Sales in M$' numdivlines='3' numberPrefix='$' numberSuffix='M' showSum='1'> { |
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Chart Objects |
Object Name | Description | Features Supported | Animation Parameters Supported |
BACKGROUND | BACKGROUND refers to the entire background of the chart. |
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CANVAS | In 2D Charts, CANVAS refers to the area in which the actual chart is plotted. It is represented by a bounded rectangle. In 3D charts, it refers to the 3D base on which the columns are built. |
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CAPTION | CAPTION refers to the heading of the chart. |
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DATALABELS | DATALABELS refer to the x-axis labels of the data. |
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DATAPLOT | DATAPLOT refers to the actual plot of the chart. For example, in Column 2D chart, columns are referred to as DATAPLOT. In Pie chart, it's the pies. In Bubble chart, it's the bubbles and so on. |
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DATAVALUES | DATAVALUES refer to the plot values i.e., value of each data (line, column, bar, pie etc.), which is displayed beside the data plot. |
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DIVLINES | DIVLINES are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifies a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart. |
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HGRID | HGRID refers to alternate color bands between two successive horizontal divisional lines. |
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LEGEND | LEGEND is the object in which the series names of all datasets show up. |
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SUBCAPTION | SUBCAPTION refers to the sub-heading of the chart. |
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TOOLTIP | TOOLTIP refers to the tool tip shown when the mouse is hovered over the data plots. |
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TRENDLINES | TRENDLINES refer to horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. |
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TRENDVALUES | TRENDVALUES refer to the display values of trend-lines (if any). |
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VLINES | VLINES are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. In case of bar charts, they are horizontal and run through the width of chart. |
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VLINELABELS | VLINELABELS refer to any labels that have been created for vertical separator lines. |
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XAXISNAME | XAXISNAME refers to the x-axis title of the chart. |
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YAXISNAME | YAXISNAME refers to the y-axis title of the chart. |
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YAXISVALUES | YAXISVALUES refer to the limit values or divisional line values, which are displayed along the y-axis of the chart. |
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<chart> element Attributes |
Functional Attributes |
These attributes let you control a variety of functional elements on the chart. For example, you can opt to show/hide data labels, data values, y-axis values. You can also set chart limits and extended properties. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
animation | Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute gives you the option to control animation in your charts. If you do not want to animate any part of the chart, set this as 0. |
palette | Number | 1-5 | FusionCharts XT uses the concept of Color Palettes. Each chart has 5 pre-defined color palettes which you can choose from. Each palette renders the chart in a different color theme. Valid values are 1-5. |
paletteColors | String | List of hex color codes separated by comma | While the palette attribute allows to select a palette theme that applies to chart background, canvas, font and tool-tips, it does not change the colors of data items (i.e., column, line, pie etc.). Using paletteColors attribute, you can specify your custom list of hex colors for the data items. The list of colors have to be separated by comma e.g., <chart paletteColors='FF0000,0372AB,FF5904...'>. The chart will cycle through the list of specified colors and then render the data plot accordingly.
To use the same set of colors throughout all your charts in a web application, you can store the list of palette colors in your application globally and then provide the same in each chart XML. |
showAboutMenuItem | Boolean | 0/1 | Setting this to 1 shows up a custom context menu in the chart, which can be customized to show your text and can be linked to your Url. For e.g., you can set the context menu of the chart to include "About your company name" and then link to your company home page. By default, the chart shows "About FusionCharts" when right clicked. |
aboutMenuItemLabel | String | The menu item label for the custom context menu item. | |
aboutMenuItemLink | String | URL | Link for the custom context menu item. You can specify the link in FusionCharts Link format to be able to open the same in new window, pop-ups, frames or as JavaScript links. |
showLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | It sets the configuration whether the x-axis labels will be displayed or not. |
labelDisplay | String | AUTO Since v 3.2 WRAP STAGGER ROTATE or NONE |
Using this attribute, you can customize the alignment of data labels (x-axis labels). There are 5 options: AUTO, WRAP, STAGGER, ROTATE or NONE. By default, this attribute is set to AUTO mode which means that the alignment of the data labels is determined automatically depending on the size of the chart. WRAP wraps the label text if it is too long to fit in one line. ROTATE rotates the labels vertically. STAGGER divides the labels into multiple lines. |
useEllipsesWhenOverflow Since v 3.2.1
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Boolean | 0/1 | When enabled in auto mode, long data labels are truncated by adding ellipses to prevent them from overflowing the chart background. The default value is 1. |
rotateLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute lets you set whether the data labels will show up as rotated labels on the chart. |
slantLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show rotated labels on chart, this attribute lets you set the configuration whether the labels will show as slanted labels or fully vertical ones. |
labelStep | Number | 1 or above | By default, all the labels are displayed on the chart. However, if you've a set of streaming data (like name of months or days of week), you can opt to show every n-th label for better clarity. This attribute just lets you do so. When a value greater than 1 (n) is set to this attribute, the first label from left and every label at the n-th position from left will be displayed. e.g., a chart showing data for 12 months and set with labelStep='3' will show labels for January, April, July and October. The rest of the labels will be skipped. |
staggerLines | Number | 2 or above | If you've opted for STAGGER mode as labelDisplay, using this attribute you can control how many lines to stagger the label to. By default, all labels are displayed in a single line. |
showValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Sets the configuration whether data values will be displayed along with the data plot on chart. |
rotateValues | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show data values, you can rotate them using this attribute. |
showYAxisValues | Boolean | 0/1 | FusionCharts XT y-axis is divided into vertical sections using div (divisional) lines. Each div line assumes a value based on its position. Using this attribute you can set whether to show those div line (y-axis) values or not. This attribute shows or hides the y-axis divisional lines and limits. The values of showLimits and showDivLineValues if specified explicitly overrides the value of this attribute. |
showLimits | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show chart limit values. If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value. |
showDivLineValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show div line values. If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value. |
yAxisValuesStep | Number | 1 or above | By default, all div lines show their values. However, you can opt to display every x(th) div line value using this attribute. |
showShadow | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show shadows for data plot. |
adjustDiv | Boolean | 0/1 | FusionCharts XT automatically tries to adjust divisional lines and limit values based on the data provided. However, if you want to set your explicit lower and upper limit values and number of divisional lines, first set this attribute to false. That will disable automatic adjustment of divisional lines. |
rotateYAxisName | Boolean | 0/1 | If you do not wish to rotate y-axis name, set this as 0. It specifically comes to use when you've special characters (UTF8) in your y-axis name that do not show up in rotated mode. |
yAxisNameWidth | Number | (In Pixels) | If you opt to not rotate y-axis name, you can choose a maximum width that will be applied to y-axis name. |
clickURL | String | The entire chart can now act as a hotspot. Use this URL to define the hotspot link for the chart. The link can be specified in FusionCharts Link format. | |
showSum | Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute is used to show sum of all the columns in a given stacked column. By default this attribute is set to 1. If you do not want to show the sum of all the columns, set this attribute to 0. |
defaultAnimation | Boolean | 0/1 | By default, each chart animates some of its elements. If you wish to switch off the default animation patterns, you can set this attribute to 0. It can be particularly useful when you want to define your own animation patterns using STYLE feature. |
yAxisMinValue
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Number | This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you. | |
yAxisMaxValue | Number | This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you. | |
stack100Percent
Since v 3.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Setting this attribute to 1 helps in depicting the values in percentage figures. |
showPercentValues
Since v 3.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show percentage figures in data values of the chart. |
showPercentInToolTip
Since v 3.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show percentage figures in tool tip. |
centerYaxisName Since v 3.2.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute when set to '1', allows you to align the y-axis name with respect to the height of the chart. When set to '0', the y-axis name is aligned with respect to the height of the canvas. |
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Chart Titles and Axis Names |
Using these attributes, you can set the various headings and titles of chart like caption, sub-caption, x-axis and y-axis names etc. |
Attribute Name | Type | Description |
caption | String | Caption of the chart. |
subCaption | String | Sub-caption of the chart. |
xAxisName | String | X-Axis Title of the Chart. |
yAxisName | String | Y-Axis Title of the chart. |
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Chart Cosmetics |
The following attributes let you configure chart cosmetics like background color, background alpha, canvas color & alpha etc. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
showBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show a border around the chart or not. |
borderColor | Color | Border color of the chart. | |
borderThickness | Number | In Pixels | Border thickness of the chart. |
borderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Border alpha of the chart. |
bgColor | Color | This attribute sets the background color for the chart. You can set any hex color code as the value of this attribute. To specify a gradient as background color, separate the hex color codes of each color in the gradient using comma. Example: FF5904,FFFFFF. Remember to remove # and any spaces in between. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details. | |
bgAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Sets the alpha (transparency) for the background. If you've opted for gradient background, you need to set a list of alpha(s) separated by comma. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details. |
bgRatio | Number | 0-100 | If you've opted for a gradient background, this attribute lets you set the ratio of each color constituent. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details. |
bgAngle | Number | 0-360 | Sets the angle of the background color, in case of a gradient. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details. |
bgImage
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String |
To place any image (JPG/PNG/GIF) or Flash movie (SWF) as background of the chart, enter the (path and) name of the background image or SWF file. It should be in the same domain as the chart. Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts. |
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bgImageAlpha
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Number | 0-100 |
Helps you specify alpha for the loaded background image or Flash movie. Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts. |
bgImageDisplayMode Since v3.2.2 |
String | stretch, tile, fit, fill, center, none |
Helps you specify the mode in which the background image is to be displayed.
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bgImageVAlign Since v3.2.2 |
String | top, middle, bottom | Helps you to vertically align the background image. |
bgImageHAlign Since v3.2.2 |
String | left, middle, right | Helps you to horizontally align the background image. |
bgImageScale Since v3.2.2 |
Number | 0-300 | Helps you magnify the background image.This attribute will only work when the attribute bgImageDisplayMode is set to none, center or tile. |
canvasBgColor | Color | Sets Canvas background color. For Gradient effect, enter colors separated by comma. | |
canvasBgAlpha | Number | Sets alpha for Canvas Background. For gradient, enter alpha list separated by commas. | |
canvasBgRatio | Number | 0-100 | Helps you specify canvas background ratio for gradients. |
canvasBgAngle | Number | Helps you specify canvas background angle in case of gradient. | |
canvasBorderColor | Color | Lets you specify canvas border color. | |
canvasBorderThickness | Number | 0-5 | Lets you specify canvas border thickness. |
canvasBorderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Lets you control transparency of canvas border. |
showVLineLabelBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show a label for any of your vLines in the chart, you can collectively configure whether to show border for all such labels using this attribute. If you want to show label border for just a particular vLine, you can over-ride this value by specifying border configuration for that specific vLine. |
logoURL | String | URL | You can load an external logo (JPEG/PNG/SWF) on the chart once it has rendered. This attribute lets you specify the URL of the same. Owing to Flash Player security settings, you can only specify logo that are on the same sub-domain as that of the SWF file of the chart. |
logoPosition | String | TL, TR, BL, BR, CC | Where to position the logo on the chart:
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logoAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Once the logo has loaded on the chart, you can configure its opacity using this attribute. |
logoScale | Number | 0-300 | You can also change the scale of externally loaded logo at run-time by specifying a value for this parameter. |
logoLink | String | URL | If you want to link the logo to an external URL, specify the link in this attribute. The link can be in FusionCharts Link format, allowing you to link to new windows, pop-ups, frames etc. |
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Data Plot Cosmetics |
These attributes let you configure how your plot (columns, lines, area, pie or any data that you're plotting) will appear on the chart. If the plots can show borders, you can control the border properties using the attributes listed below. Or, if they support gradient fills, you can again configure various properties of the gradient using these attributes. Various other controls over plot cosmetics can be attained using this set of attributes. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
useRoundEdges | Boolean | 0/1 | If you wish to plot columns with round edges and fill them with a glass effect gradient, set this attribute to 1. The following functionalities will not work when this attribute is set to 1:
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showPlotBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the column, area, pie etc. border will show up. |
plotBorderColor | Color | Color for column, area, pie border | |
plotBorderThickness | Number | 0-5 (Pixels) | Thickness for column, area, pie border |
plotBorderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha for column, area, pie border |
plotBorderDashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the plot border should appear as dashed. |
plotBorderDashLen | Number | In Pixels | If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash. |
plotBorderDashGap | Number | In Pixels | If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between two dash. |
plotFillAngle | Number | 0-360 | If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill angle for gradient. |
plotFillRatio | Number | 0-100 | If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the ratio for gradient. |
plotFillAlpha | Number | 0-100 | If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill alpha for gradient. |
plotGradientColor | Color | Hex Color | You can globally add a gradient color to the entire plot of chart by specifying the second color as this attribute. For example, if you've specified individual colors for your columns and now you want a gradient that ends in white. You need to specify FFFFFF (white) as this color and the chart will now draw plots as gradient. |
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Divisional Lines & Grids |
Using this set of attributes, you can control the properties of divisional lines, zero plane and alternate color bands. Divisional Lines are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifies a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart. The zero plane is a 2D/3D plane that signifies the 0 position on the chart. If there are no negative numbers on the chart, you won't see a visible zero plane. Alternate color bands are colored blocks between two successive divisional lines. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
numDivLines | Number | Numeric value > 0 | Number of horizontal axis division lines that you want on the chart. |
divLineColor | Color | Color for divisional lines. | |
divLineThickness | Number | 1-5 | Thickness of divisional lines. |
divLineAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of divisional lines. |
divLineIsDashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the divisional lines should display as dash. |
divLineDashLen | Number | In Pixels | If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash. |
divLineDashGap | Number | In Pixels | If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between dash. |
zeroPlaneColor | Color | Color for the Zero Plane. Zero Plane is the line/plane that appears at 0 y-position on canvas, when negative data is being shown on the chart. | |
zeroPlaneThickness | Number | In Pixels | Thickness of zero plane. |
zeroPlaneAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of zero plane. |
showZeroPlaneValue
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Boolean | 0/1 | Allows you to show or hide the value on which the zero plane exists on the y-axis. By default, the value is displayed. This attribute is not supported in JavaScript charts. |
showAlternateHGridColor | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show alternate colored horizontal grid bands. |
alternateHGridColor | Color | Color of the alternate horizontal grid bands. | |
alternateHGridAlpha | Number | Alpha (transparency) of the alternate horizontal grid bands. | |
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Legend Properties |
In stacked charts, the series name of each dataset shows up in the legend of the chart. If you do not need the legend, you can opt to hide the same. Also, the legend can be placed at the bottom of the chart or to the right of the chart. Using the attributes below, you can configure the functional and cosmetic properties of the legend. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
showLegend | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show legend on the chart. |
legendPosition | String | BOTTOM or RIGHT | The legend can be plotted at two positions on the chart - below the chart (BOTTOM) and on the RIGHT side of the chart. |
legendCaption | String | You can add a caption for the entire legend by setting the same here. | |
legendIconScale
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Number | 0-5 | Scaling of legend icon is possible in FusionCharts XT. This attribute lets you control the size of legend icon. |
legendBgColor | Color | Hex Code | Background color for the legend. |
legendBgAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Background alpha for the legend. |
legendBorderColor | Color | Hex Code | Border Color for the legend. |
legendBorderThickness | Number | In Pixels | Border thickness for the legend. |
legendBorderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Border alpha for the legend. |
legendShadow | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show a shadow for legend. |
legendAllowDrag | Boolean | 0/1 | The legend can be made drag-able by setting this attribute to 1. End viewers of the chart can drag the legend around on the chart. |
legendScrollBgColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the background color of the scroll bar. |
legendScrollBarColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the bar color of the scroll bar. |
legendScrollBtnColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the color of buttons of the scroll bar. |
reverseLegend | Boolean | 0/1 | In a stacked chart, you can reverse the ordering of datasets in the legend by setting this attribute to 1. |
interactiveLegend
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Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute lets you interact with the legend in your chart. When you click a legend key, the dataplots associated with that series are eliminated from the chart. Re-clicking the key causes the dataplots to reappear. |
legendNumColumns
Since v 3.2 |
Number | Positive Integer | If your chart contains multiple series, the legend is displayed as a grid comprising of multiple legend keys. With the help of this attribute you can specify the number of columns that are to be displayed in the legend. |
minimiseWrappingInLegend
Since v 3.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to minimize legend item text wrapping. |
legendMarkerCircle deprecated. Not applicable. |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to use square legend keys or circular ones. |
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Number Formatting |
FusionCharts XT offers you a lot of options to format your numbers on the chart. Using the attributes below, you can control a myriad of options like:
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Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
formatNumber | Boolean | 0/1 | This configuration determines whether the numbers displayed on the chart will be formatted using commas, e.g., 40,000 if formatNumber='1' and 40000 if formatNumber= '0'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
formatNumberScale | Boolean | 0/1 | Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number after truncating and rounding it - e.g., if formatNumberScale is set to 1, 1043 will become 1.04K (with decimals set to 2 places). Same with numbers in millions - an M will be added at the end. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page. |
defaultNumberScale | String | The default unit of the numbers that you're providing to the chart. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page. | |
numberScaleUnit | String | Unit of each block of the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page. | |
numberScaleValue | String | Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page. | |
scaleRecursively Since v 3.2.2 - SR3 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to scale the number recursively? For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page. |
maxScaleRecursion Since v 3.2.2 - SR3 |
Number | How many recursions to complete during recursive scaling? -1 completes the entire set of recursion. For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page. | |
scaleSeparator Since v 3.2.2 - SR3 |
String | What character to use to separate the scales that generated after recursion? For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page. | |
numberPrefix | String | Character | Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all dollars figure on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' $' to show like $40000, $50000. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
numberSuffix | String | Character | Using this attribute, you could add a suffix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all figure quantified as per annum on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' /a' to show like 40000/a, 50000/a. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
decimalSeparator | String | Character | This option helps you specify the character to be used as the decimal separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
thousandSeparator | String | Character | This option helps you specify the character to be used as the thousands separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
thousandSeparatorPosition Since v 3.2.2 - SR3 |
Number | This option helps you specify the position of the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. | |
inDecimalSeparator | String | Character | In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the decimal separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page. |
inThousandSeparator | String | Character | In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page. |
decimals | Number | 0-10 | Number of decimal places to which all numbers on the chart will be rounded to. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
forceDecimals | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to add 0 padding at the end of decimal numbers. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all the numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
forceYAxisValueDecimals
Since v 3.2 |
Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to forcefully attach decimal places to all y-axis values. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all y-axis numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all y-axis numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
yAxisValueDecimals | Number | 0-10 | If you've opted to not adjust div lines, you can specify the div line values decimal precision using this attribute. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page. |
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Font Properties |
Using the attributes below, you can define the generic font properties for all the text on the chart. These attributes allow you a high level control over font properties. If you intend to specify font properties for individual chart elements (like Caption, sub-caption etc.), you'll need to use the Styles feature of FusionCharts XT. Using Styles, you can also specify advanced font properties like Bold, Italics, HTML Mode etc. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
baseFont | String | Font Name | This attribute lets you set the font face (family) of all the text (data labels, values etc.) on chart. If you specify outCnvBaseFont attribute also, then this attribute controls only the font face of text within the chart canvas bounds. |
baseFontSize | Number | 0-72 | This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here. |
baseFontColor | Color | This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here. | |
outCnvBaseFont | String | Font Name | This attribute sets the base font family of the chart font which lies outside the canvas i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here. |
outCnvBaseFontSize | Number | 0-72 | This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here. |
outCnvBaseFontColor | Color | This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here. | |
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Tool-tip |
These attributes let you control the tool tip. You can set the background color, border color, separator character and few other details. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
showToolTip | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show tool tip on chart. |
toolTipBgColor | Color | Background Color for tool tip. | |
toolTipBorderColor | Color | Border Color for tool tip. | |
toolTipSepChar | String | The character specified as the value of this attribute separates the name and value displayed in tool tip. | |
seriesNameInToolTip | Boolean | 0/1 | For stacked charts, FusionCharts XT shows the following information in tool tip (unless tool text is explicitly defined): "Series Name, Category Name, Data Value". This attribute lets you control whether series name will show up in tool tip or not. |
showToolTipShadow | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show shadow for tool-tips on the chart. |
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Chart Padding & Margins |
The following attributes help you control chart margins and paddings. FusionCharts XT allows you to manually customize the padding of various elements on the chart to allow advanced manipulation and control over chart visualization. Padding in FusionCharts XT is always defined in pixels, unless the attribute itself suggests some other scale (like plotSpacePercent). You can also define the chart margins. Chart Margins refer to the empty space left on the top, bottom, left and right of the chart. That means, FusionCharts XT will not plot anything in that space. It's not necessary for you to specify any padding/margin values. FusionCharts XT automatically assumes the best values for the same, if you do not specify the same. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
captionPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute lets you control the space (in pixels) between the sub-caption and top of the chart canvas. If the sub-caption is not defined, it controls the space between caption and top of chart canvas. If neither caption, nor sub-caption is defined, this padding does not come into play. |
xAxisNamePadding | Number | In Pixels | Using this, you can set the distance between the top end of x-axis title and the bottom end of data labels (or canvas, if data labels are not to be shown). |
yAxisNamePadding | Number | In Pixels | Using this, you can set the distance between the right end of y-axis title and the start of y-axis values (or canvas, if the y-axis values are not to be shown). |
yAxisValuesPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute helps you set the horizontal space between the canvas left edge and the y-axis values or trend line values (on left/right side). This is particularly useful, when you want more space between your canvas and y-axis values. |
labelPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute sets the vertical space between the labels and canvas bottom edge. If you want more space between the canvas and the x-axis labels, you can use this attribute to control it. |
plotSpacePercent | Number | 0-80 (In Percent) | On a column chart, there is spacing defined between two columns. By default, the spacing is set to 20% of canvas width. If you intend to increase or decrease the spacing between columns, you can do so using this attribute. For example, if you wanted all columns to stick to each other without any space in between, you can set plotSpacePercent to 0. Similarly, if you want very thin columns, you can set plotSpacePercent to its max value of 80. |
chartLeftMargin | Number | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the left side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space. |
chartRightMargin | Number | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the right side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space. |
chartTopMargin | Number | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the top of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space. |
chartBottomMargin | Number | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the bottom of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space. |
legendPadding | Number | In Pixels | Padding of legend from right/bottom side of canvas |
canvasLeftMargin | Number | In Pixels | This attribute lets you control the space between the start of chart canvas and the start (x) of chart. In case of 2D charts, the canvas is the visible rectangular box. In case of 3D charts, the canvas box is the imaginary box around the 3D canvas.
Using this attribute, you can control the amount of empty space between the chart left side and canvas left side. By default, FusionCharts XT automatically calculates this space depending on the elements to be placed on the chart. However, if you want to over-ride this value with a higher value, you can use this attribute to specify the same. Please note that you cannot specify a margin lower than what has been calculated by the chart. This attribute is particularly useful, when you've multiple charts placed in a page and want all their canvas start position to align with each other - so in such a case, you can set same margin value (a value large enough that it doesn't get rejected by chart owing to it being lower than the calculated value) for all such charts in the page. |
canvasRightMargin | Number | In Pixels | Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between end of canvas and end of chart. |
canvasTopMargin | Number | In Pixels | Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between top of canvas and top of chart. |
canvasBottomMargin | Number | In Pixels | Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between bottom of canvas and bottom of chart. |
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<categories> element |
The <categories> element lets you bunch together x-axis labels of the chart. For a stacked chart, it's necessary to provide data labels using <category> elements under <categories> element. The following properties of <categories> element help you control the font properties of data labels. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
font | String | Valid font face | Lets you specify font face for the x-axis data labels. |
fontSize | Number | Lets you specify font size for the x-axis data labels. | |
fontColor | Color | Hex Code | Lets you specify font color for the x-axis data labels. |
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<category> element |
Each <category> element represents an x-axis data label. In stacked charts, it's necessary to provide an equal number of <category> elements and data items (<set> elements within each <dataset>). FusionCharts XT plots only those data items for which it could find a respective <category> element. You can specify the following attributes for <category> element: |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
label | String | This attribute determines the label for the data item. The label appears on the x-axis of chart. | |
showLabel | Boolean | 0/1 | You can individually opt to show/hide labels of individual data items using this attribute. |
toolText | String |
The tooltip defined in the <category> element appears only when the mouse cursor is hovered over the data plots. However, this will not appear when the cursor is moved over the data labels (except for a situation when long labels are automatically truncated with ellipses. In this situation, if the mouse cursor is hovered over a truncated label, the tooltip will appear with the full label). In case you want to set a short label and show the full label in tooltip, define the full label using this attribute within the <category> element. The tooltip with the full label will appear only when the mouse is hovered on the dataplot. |
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Vertical data separator lines |
vLines are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. For example, if you're plotting a chart showing monthly sales from October 2005-Mar 2006, you might want to plot a vertical separator line between Dec 2005 and January 2006 to indicate end of year. In stacked charts, it is used between <category> elements as under: <categories> <category label='Oct 2005' /> <category label='Nov 2005' /> <category label='Dec 2005' /> <vLine color='FF5904' thickness='2' /> <category label='Jan 2006' /> <category label='Feb 2006' /> </categories> You can configure the cosmetics of vertical separator lines using the following attributes: |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
color | Color | Hex Color | This attribute defines the color of vertical separator line. |
thickness | Number | In Pixels | Thickness in pixels of the vertical separator line. |
alpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of the vertical separator line. |
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the vertical separator line should appear as dashed. |
dashLen | Number | In Pixels | If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash. |
dashGap | Number | In Pixels | If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash gap. |
label | String | Label for the vertical separator line, if to be shown. | |
showLabelBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show a border around the vLine label. |
linePosition | Number | 0-1 | Helps configure the position of vertical line i.e., if a vLine is to be plotted between 2 points Jan and Feb, user can set any position between 0 and 1 to indicate the relative position of vLine between these two points (0 means Jan and 1 means Feb). By default, it’s 0.5 to show in between the points. |
labelPosition | Number | 0-1 | Helps configure the position of the vLine label by setting a relative position between 0 and 1. In vertical charts, 0 means top of canvas and 1 means bottom. In horizontal charts, 0 means left of canvas and 1 means right. |
labelHAlign | String | left, center, right | Horizontal anchor point for the alignment of vLine label. |
labelVAlign | String | top, middle, bottom | Vertical anchor point for the alignment of vLine label. |
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<dataset> group element |
In Multi Series Stacked Column chart a group of <dataset> elements are present. In this case, a parent <dataset> element is used within which a number of child <dataset> elements reside. |
<dataset> element |
Each child <dataset> element contains a series of data. For example, if we're plotting a monthly sales comparison chart for 2 successive years, the first dataset will contain the data for first year and the next one for the second year. You can provide dataset level cosmetics so that all data within that dataset will be plotted in the same color/alpha/etc. Also, each dataset can be named using the seriesName attribute of <dataset> element. The series name appears in the legend of the chart. In our previous example, the series name could have well been 2005 and 2006 for first and second dataset respectively. Depending on the chart type, there are a number of properties which you can define for each child <dataset> element. |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
seriesName | String | Lets you specify the series name for a particular dataset. For example, if you're plotting a chart to indicate monthly sales analysis for 2005 and 2006, the seriesName for the first dataset will be 2005 and that of the second will be 2006. The seriesName of a dataset is shown in legend. | |
color | Color | Hex Code (Or Comma separated list) | This attribute sets the color using which columns, lines, area of that dataset will be drawn. For column chart, you can specify a list of comma separated hex codes to get a gradient plot. |
alpha | String | 0-100 or Comma Separated List | This attribute sets the alpha (transparency) of the entire dataset. |
ratio | String | Comma separated list of ratios | If you've opted to show columns as gradients, this attribute lets you control the ratio of each color. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details. |
showValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show the values for this dataset. |
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether this dataset will appear as dashed. |
includeInLegend | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to include the seriesName of this dataset in legend. |
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<set> element |
Each <set> element (child of <chart> or <dataset> element) represents a set of data which is to be plotted on the graph and determines a set of data which will appear on the chart. For a stacked chart, it could look like: <dataset seriesName='2006'> <set value='35445' /> <set value='35675' /> .... and so on .... </dataset> In stacked charts, you should again note that the number of <category> elements should be equal to the number of data points in each data sets, i.e., if you mention twelve categories (twelve months), the data for both years (2005 & 2006) should also contain twelve <set> elements (twelve rows of data). |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
value | Number | Numerical value for the data item. This value will be plotted on the chart. | |
displayValue | String | If instead of the numerical value of this data, you wish to display a custom string value, you can specify the same here. Examples are annotation for a data item etc. | |
color | Color | Hex Code | For stacked charts, you can define the color of datasets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify its color at "set" level using this attribute. This attribute accepts hex color codes without #. |
link | String | You can define links for individual data items. That enables the end user to click on data items (columns, lines, bars etc.) and drill down to other pages. To define the link for data items, use the link attribute. You can define links that open in same window, new window, pop-up window or frames. Please see "Drill Down Charts > FusionCharts Link format" for more information. Also, you'll need to URL Encode all the special characters (like ? and &) present in the link. | |
toolText | String | By default, FusionCharts XT shows the series Name, Category Name and value as tool tip text for that data item. But, if you want to display more information for the data item as tool tip, you can use this attribute to specify the same. | |
showValue | Boolean | 0/1 | You can individually opt to show/hide values of individual data items using this attribute. This value over-rides the dataset level value. |
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the border of this data item should appear as dashed. This is particularly useful when you want to highlight a data (such as forecast or trend etc.). This value over-rides the dataset level value. |
alpha | Number | 0-100 | For stacked charts, you can define the alpha of datasets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify its alpha at "set" level using this attribute. |
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Trend-lines |
Using the <trendLines> element (and children <line> elements), you can define trend lines on the chart. Trend lines are horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. For example, if you are plotting sales data of current year, you might want to add previous year's average monthly sales as trend indicator for ease of comparison. For each trend line on the chart, you need to define a <line> element under <trendLines> element as under: <trendLines> <line startValue='895' color='FF0000' displayValue='Average' /> </trendLines> You can control the cosmetic and functional properties of trend-lines using the following attributes: |
Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description |
startValue | Number | Numeric Value | The starting value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the startValue will be 102. |
endValue | Number | Numeric Value | The ending y-axis value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the endValue will be 109. If you do not specify a value for endValue, it will automatically assume the same value as startValue. |
displayValue | String | If you want to display a string caption for the trend line by its side, you can use this attribute. Example: displayValue='Last Month High'. When you don't supply this attribute, it automatically takes the value of startValue. | |
color | String | Hex Code | Color of the trend line and its associated text. |
isTrendZone | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the trend will display a line, or a zone (filled colored rectangle). |
showOnTop | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the trend line/zone will be displayed over data plots or under them. |
thickness | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define the thickness of trend line. |
alpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of the trend line. |
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define whether the trend line will appear as dashed. |
dashLen | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash. |
dashGap | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash gap. |
valueOnRight | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show the trend line value on left side or right side of chart. This is particularly useful when the trend line display values on the chart are colliding with divisional lines values on the chart. |
toolText | String | Custom tool-text for this trendline/zone. | |
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The chart also accepts the following features, which have not been discussed here:
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