Till now, to include a chart/map created by FusionCharts in your HTML page, you had three options:
In an effort to make this entire process even better and easier, we released FusionCharts DOM a few days ago.
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Essentially, FusionCharts DOM is a JavaScript file (FusionChartsDOM.js) that you need to include in your HTML page, along with the standard FusionCharts JavaScript class (FusionCharts.js). You can download both the files here.
Once you’ve downloaded and included the 2 JavaScript files in your page, to create a chart, all you need to do is use the <fusioncharts></fusioncharts> tag in your HTML code. Consider the code below:
<html> ... Your HTML Code here .... <p> <fusioncharts chartType="MSCombi2D" dataUrl="profit_revenue.xml" width="100%"> </fusioncharts> </p> ... Your HTML Code here .... </html>
This code creates a Multi-series combination 2D chart with its data source specified as Profit_revenue.xml. See it live here.
There are a lot of attributes which you can specify for <fusioncharts> element. The entire list can be found here .
If you do not wish to have an external XML file and have the XML data in-lined in the HTML code itself, the following code could be used:
<fusioncharts chartType="Doughnut2D" width="100%">
<data><!--[CDATA[
<chart caption="Usage share of Web Browsers"
subcaption="Third quarter of 2008" numberSuffix="%"
palette='3' pieRadius='90' >
<set name="IE6" tooltext="Internet Explorer 6" value="33.13"></set>
<set name="IE7" tooltext="Internet Explorer 7" value="39.09"></set>
<set name="Chrome" tooltext="Chrome" value="0.26"></set>
<set name="FF" tooltext="Mozilla Firefox" value="19.48"></set>
<set name="N" tooltext="Netscape" value="0.68"></set>
<set name="Opera" tooltext="Opera" value=".71"></set>
<set name="Safari" tooltext="Safari" value="6.39"></set>
<set name="Others" tooltext="Others" value="0.26"></set>
]]--></data>
</fusioncharts> Here, the entire XML data has been inlined under <data> tag. See this live in action.
If you’ve multiple charts in a page and wish to specify common settings for all of them,
like width/height, debugMode etc., FusionCharts DOM allows you to specify the same
within the <script> tag as under:
!-- script in <head> -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="../docs/JavaScripts/FusionChartsDOM.js"
parameters="chartType: 'Line', width: '200', height: '200'"></script>
...
<!-- fusioncharts HTML tags in <body> -->
<fusioncharts dataUrl="data/CISCO.xml"></fusioncharts>
<fusioncharts dataUrl="data/IBM.xml"></fusioncharts>
<fusioncharts dataUrl="data/JAVA.xml"></fusioncharts>
<fusioncharts dataUrl="data/INTL.xml"></fusioncharts>
In the above code, the four charts are generated as line chart with a width and height of 200 pixels. See it live here.
FusionCharts DOM supports all the other events and parameters that are supported by FusionCharts. If you’ve already integrated FusionCharts in your applications and wish to switch to DOM, the transition is seamless and does not break your existing JavaScript too.
You can just replace the existing chart inclusion code with the new DOM style code.
FusionCharts DOM may be downloaded here . Or, you may read the online documentation here.
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Looks like a great anhancement! Gonna test it right away!
Hi,
There is a problem when loading multiple charts on the same page using the Javascript DOM. If you go to their online demos example from the link you provided, you can see this problem happening where one chart is stuck at "Loading Data".
I'm thinking that this is caused by a synchronization problem so one solution could be to turn rendering off at load time and have a javascript call possibly to load each chart synchronisely.
Hi, I have downloaded the product and currently testing it. It is a great tool for any web developers. But personally I am facing a problem. I have my data in boring HTML tables. That data is dynamic, coming from database depending on the customer requirements. Now whenever I want the chart on the page, I need to convert the data to XML format. Is there any other way to design those charts otherwise. Please advice.
Hi Sujit,
FusionCharts only accepts data in XML format. I presume, it would be easier for you to build the XML since you are generating the data dynamically.
You can always build your own XML building classes to convert your data format to FusionCharts XML format.
This is pretty interesting for both beginners and advanced users: the ability to parse non-standard HTML tags.
Have a look at the features of FusionCharts DOM at https://www.fusioncharts.com/DOM/features.asp