Reply to: Free & Good HTML Chart Generator

[Bob Dalek]

No

It's not me, either.

[Spacecadet]

Is that you in your avatar?

No

[Bob Dalek]

Baaaaa

Is that you in your avatar?

[Spacecadet]

I'd only used "Whatever" for your posts. Bit of fun, that's all. Will stop - your bleating is too much for a Friday morn.

Baaaaa

[Bob Dalek]

Bob's not new and it does appear to be his "cool" reply of the month

I'd only used "Whatever" for your posts. Bit of fun, that's all. Will stop - your bleating is too much for a Friday morn.

[Bob Dalek]

Cue follow up from Bob Dickhead: "Whatever."

Whatever.

[Spacecadet]

I realise I'm new here but surely we're not all IT Geeks in here. I am and thought it prudent to advise without berating someone for appearing not to be! Apologies if Bob has a history but still, we are grown ups aren't we?

Bob's not new and it does appear to be his "cool" reply of the month

[London75]

Despite what you may have been led to believe, "Whatever" is not an adequate way of saying "I have such small understanding of my requirements that I just throw a few misunderstood technical terms into my question in the hope of getting a response."

Unlike General, where you can spout any old rubbish, Technical is normally used for questions that are either technically precise, or seek guidance on technical matters concerning which the questioner admits to not having a detailed understanding, but can nonetheless express their requirements clearly.

I'm glad I read through the responses before giving you a detailed response as to the technical limitations of creating charts in HTML - although the first question would, in any case, have been "What kind of charts?" There are lots...



Cue follow up from Bob Dickhead: "Whatever."

I realise I'm new here but surely we're not all IT Geeks in here. I am and thought it prudent to advise without berating someone for appearing not to be! Apologies if Bob has a history but still, we are grown ups aren't we?

[NickFitz]

so was the HTML requirement a bit of a red herring then?

Whatever.

Despite what you may have been led to believe, "Whatever" is not an adequate way of saying "I have such small understanding of my requirements that I just throw a few misunderstood technical terms into my question in the hope of getting a response."

Unlike General, where you can spout any old rubbish, Technical is normally used for questions that are either technically precise, or seek guidance on technical matters concerning which the questioner admits to not having a detailed understanding, but can nonetheless express their requirements clearly.

I'm glad I read through the responses before giving you a detailed response as to the technical limitations of creating charts in HTML - although the first question would, in any case, have been "What kind of charts?" There are lots...



Cue follow up from Bob Dickhead: "Whatever."

[Spacecadet]

Whatever.

Is it 2002 again?

[Bob Dalek]

so was the HTML requirement a bit of a red herring then?

Whatever.

[London75]

It's quite manual as I'm trying to track down a specific trend in data so changing parameters quite randomly, I'd imagine you could automate very easily with VBA though or if not keen on VBA, record a macro!

[Spacecadet]

That'd do for me. Automating it - how's that done? Or is yours manual process each time?

so was the HTML requirement a bit of a red herring then?

[DimPrawn]

Some free Java applet charts

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/


Or this free ASP.NET charting library

http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/WebChart/Default.aspx

[Bob Dalek]

Does it have to be HTML?

Excel does a very good job with it's data backed pivot chart, all wizrd driven and can work offline (diconnected from database) too.

Being a pivot based on a cube, you can twist the display of stats any way you wish and it's very dynamic.

I thought I'd post because I'm right in the middle of using excel to generate graphs from a 97 million record dataset and it's doing splendidly.

That'd do for me. Automating it - how's that done? Or is yours manual process each time?