There's always Flex 2.0 Charting :-) On 12/2/06, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, CFCHART picks ranges based on the data being charted, so if you > want to force a certain range, you may need to pad. In my particular > situation, however, that's not the case. It's just whatever data is > in the range needs to be displayed. I.e. the range endpoints are > insignificant. I just don't want CFCHART adding a bunch of extra > space at the ends just for the sake of making "pretty" chart labels. > But it's the same problem either way: no way to manually set the > x-axis range rather than having it computed dynamically. > > Steve's idea would probably work for your situation: specify the > granularity as well as the range, but it's hardly ideal, since you > can't compute the ranges dynamically at runtime (at least not easily). > > cheers, > barneyb > > On 12/1/06, Tom McNeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking back at some old code, I was actually changing stylesheets based on > > the user's selection of a date range. For instance, if s/he chose "3 years," > > I chose a stylesheet that scaled the x-axis by month. If s/he chose "1 > > month," I chose a stylesheet that scaled by days. > > > > As far as the range goes -- I haven't looked at the WebCharts application in > > a long time. But the CFCHART tag has scaleMax and scaleMin attributes that > > let you choose starting and ending values for the y-axis. I wonder if > > there's a similar thing you can set for the x-axis in the XML. If so, you > > might be able to spit out a few static stylesheets and choose among them > > based on the range you receive. > > > > But won't the x-axis values start and end wherever the data you're pouring > > in start and end? I haven't worked with CFCHART in a long time, so I may > > well be misremembering. But it seems to me that I actually had to pad my > > recordset to get what I wanted. > > > > For instance -- in my situation, the user chose a specific time period, as I > > said. If s/he chose one year, my query looked for records going backward a > > year. But if there were only records which went back two months, I had to > > add a bogus row to my query with the starting date (Now() - 1 year, for > > instance) in order to get the x-axis to begin one year ago. > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > > > Tom > > -- > Barney Boisvert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 360.319.6145 > http://www.barneyb.com/ > > Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. > >
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