setChartData

A logic command that creates a variable holding a Chart data value, which may be given to certain content commands to draw a chart. Certain features of the chart are defined through this command itself, but the majority of the data is defined through various child commands. Notably, either an addSeries or a deriveSeries child command is required to add at least one data series to the chart.

Child commands

• addSeries and deriveSeries
  Required. Either of these two commands are used to add data series for the chart. A chart requires at least one data series, therefore at least one of these child commands is required.

• defineAxis
  Optional. Defines an axis for the chart. Up to four of these child commands may be added, one for each of the four sides of the chart.

Attributes

Examples

If you have a Collection of data you'd like to get onto a chart, doing so can be fairly simple. Here's the most minimalistic approach using deriveSeries to create the data series:

<setChartData var="chart" type="line">
  <deriveSeries value="${quarterlySales}" label="Sales by Quarter" valueExpr="${item.value}" labelExpr="${item.quarter}">

Here's the same done with addSeries. This approach requires more commands, but allows use of logic control commands to direct the creation of data points:

<setChartData var="chart" type="line">
  <addSeries label="Sales by Quarter" >
    <forEach value="${quarterlySales}" var="item">
      <addDataPoint value="${item.value}" label="${item.quarter}">

If creating a chart of a type with axes, the defineAxis command can be used to specify some details of them, such as the value range of the value-displaying axis:

<setChartData var="chart" type="line">
  <deriveSeries value="${quarterlySales}" label="Sales by Quarter" valueExpr="${item.value}" labelExpr="${item.quarter}">
  <defineAxis type="linear" position="left" min="${0}" max="${10000000}">

Use of defineAxis is not absolutely necessary, as the chart-drawing commands will use default axes in case axis definitions are not present.