Glad to help. If you run into any other trouble, just let us know. -- William
--- In [email protected], "Brad Bueche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks your reply/time. > > The issue with the @attribute=="blah" syntax was that I have month_name > as an element instead of an attribute. > > Just learned about attributes. I'm creating the xml myself in php > (which is querying oracle). So I can put the attribute in there. It > looks like it gives you much more powerful search capabilities (as well > as more readable code). > > > brad > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Abyss Knight > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Need IF Logic for Chart Data Provider > > > > I think you just need to change the "" to '' like so: > > dataProvider="{chartXML.lastResult.month.(@month_name=='01').day}" > > However, you might be better off doing: > > dataProvider="{chartXML.lastResult..month.(@month_name=='01').day}" > > Here's a good quick reference too: > http://www.sephirot > <http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/E4X/page002.php> > h.it/tutorials/flashPHP/E4X/page002.php > > As a disclaimer, I have very little e4x experience but I presume that > it will get you where you need to go. > > -- William > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > ups.com, "Brad Bueche" <brad@> wrote: > > > > Ok, I have Sas Jacobs' book, "Foundation Flex for Developers: Data > > Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and LCDS". She has > a > > chapter on working with XML using E4X. > > > > What works, for me in this case, is this: > > > > dataProvider="{chartXML.lastResult.month[0].day}" > > > > In fact just to see if it would work I declared > > > > public const JANUARY:int = 0; > > > > and then did > > > > dataProvider="{chartXML.lastResult.month[JANUARY].day}" > > > > This worked too. > > > > HOWEVER, I have been told that using brackets is too hard to debug. > > and that I should use a result handler to wrap the xmllist in an > > XMLListCollection instance variable and bind to that. Sas also covers > > that. I'll read up on that and let you know. OK, read it. I'm using > > the <mx:HTTPService> and, as far as I can tell from Sas' book, the > > HTTPService tag apparently takes care of creating an XMLListCollection > > for you.....or maybe it just creats an XMLList. Can anybody shed some > > light on this? > > > > I also learned (from the book) that the following should work: > > > > dataProvider="{chartXML.lastResult.month.(@month_name=="01").day}" > > > > However, it doesnt as I get the following error: > > > > Element Type "mx:LineChart" must be followed by either attribute > > specifications, ">" or "/>". > > > > > > brad > > > > brad > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com] On > > Behalf Of Abyss Knight > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:11 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Need IF Logic for Chart Data Provider > > > > > > > > One option would be to change the chart's viewable area, as in modify > > the start of the axes to only show the data you want to show. This > > would obviously put a strain on the client if there was far too much > > data loaded into an ArrayCollection though. > > > > The other option is to query the XML using e4x and use the result as > > the data provider: > > http://www.onflex. <http://www.onflex. > <http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/12/xmle4x-vs-amf.php> > org/ted/2006/12/xmle4x-vs-amf.php> > > org/ted/2006/12/xmle4x-vs-amf.php > > > > Hope that helps, > > -- William > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > ups.com, "Brad Bueche" <brad@> wrote: > > > > > > The problem (in short): > > > I need to be able to hook up my charts to dataproviders where > > > <month_name> equals "January". And only pull that. I dont need it to > > > read every month in the hierarchy. Or month_name is January and > > day_name > > > is '14'. In order to do this I need to do IF logic with the > > dataprovider > > > it seems to me. My other post occurred because in leiu of being able > > > to do "IF month_name='January'. I have just gone in and changed the > > > xml so that instead of <month> </month> [...] it now says <january> > > > </january><february></february> etc. That sort of defeats the data > > > description aspect of XML (it seems to me). > > > > > > > > > The background (if you are interested): > > > This problem has to do with me NOT wanting to write 100+ reports to > > > generate 100+ separate xml files to access. > > > > > > I need to track the metrics of several internal groups over the year > > via > > > charting. I want to drill down into individual months (by day) and > -- > > > maybe, days by hour. I also want to track into the sub groups per > > > month and per day-in-month for each of these groups as well. > > > > > > The data is network event traffic and doing the queries live will > just > > > not work. Users wont use the slicing and dicing visualization > affords > > if > > > they have to wait every time the click an item. > > > > > > So, I know I can save myself a lot of reports by putting all the > data > > > into about 10 - 20 reports or so by using the XML as its supposed to > > be > > > used (i.e. describing the data). I need to be able to hook the data > > > provider to only a sub-node in the xml hierarchy and not have it > read > > > everything at that level. I need it to read only has long as > > > month_name=January or month_name=January AND day_name='15'. > > > > > >
