Well, one option you might find useful and is only available in the cutting edge corechart package is using a scatter plot of dates vs numbers instead of a line chart. Your table should have two or more columns, the first being dates and the rest numbers (or also dates - but all the rest have to be of same type) and using a scatter plot instead of a line plot.
This feature is very new and not yet completely supported, so we'll have to raise the 'use at own risk' flag here. And of course, let us know how it works out Badtnik On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Nivi <[email protected]> wrote: > Well it is date, and the maximum we can do is maybe eliminate the > year. Even then, we I plot 60 days of data, the labels get cut short > and there is a bunch of ... instead of the values. It is no great loss > in functionality but affects the look and feel. > > thanks for the response. > > On Jun 15, 12:42 am, Badtnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, the choice of where to place the ticks is automatic, so there is > > generally no option of setting where the labels are positioned. We might > > consider a few future options for solving such problems. Mainly methods > of > > placing more text without it being cut off, plus more customization of > how > > the text is displayed. > > > > In the meantime, do you consider changing the formatting of some of the > > dates, or is that format crucial? > > Badtnik > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Nivi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > I am using a Line Chart and I plot data for 30-40 days. My x-axis is > > > Date and is in the MM/dd//yyyy format. Since there are so many data > > > points, my horizontal axis labels get cut off. Would it be possible to > > > only display the axis labels for a few points and not all. This way > > > the few labels that are displayed wont get cut off and to know a > > > particular date, the user can just hover over and see the tool tip. > > > > > Is there a setting for this that I am missing? > > > > > Thanks > > > Nivi > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google Visualization API" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-visualization-api%[email protected]> > <google-visualization-api%[email protected]<google-visualization-api%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Visualization API" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-visualization-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.
