On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:46 PM, NA <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand. > > Are you saying that you never supported plotting data vs time? > > Plotting data vs time is *extremely* common
I agree, and still, the fact is that it was never supported. See here<http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart.html#Data_Format>, for example. > (I can't believe I even > have to type this out). Your current charts do this just fine, > without any problems. There is no reason to change that. Why would > you put in a change to break that? I disagree about the "without any problems" parts. The support we intend to add (and doesn't exist at the moment) is important to many users. There's no reason not to have > dates with bar, column, or candlestick charts. In fact, using strings > is odd - their sorting properties aren't the same as for dates, which > makes handling things like axis direction awkward. > The email suggests a quick solution to converting these values to string using a DataView, so you won't have any sorting issues. We plot data vs time in nearly all of our charts. If you break this > functionality, you will essentially have killed our company. The > sheer number of charts and graphs we will need to go through to check, > adjust, and hack around for this change is overwhelming; we just can't > do it before your release. Our application will break, and we won't > be able to do anything for our clients in any reasonable amount of > time. > Please take a minute to look at the suggestions we made (using a DataView). It's a very easy and quick change. How many charts are we talking about? > Please do not do this. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
