Title: Error "There was an error loading the data: csv"
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error "There was an error loading the data: csv"

 *  Resolved [Bimalkumar Rekhadiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bimaljr/)
 * (@bimaljr)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/)
 * Hello,
 * I am using first sample code from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ipu-chart/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ipu-chart/)
 * But I am getting error:
    `There was an error loading the data: csv`
 * Also I am getting error in Console:
    `There was an error loading the data: [object
   XMLHttpRequest]`
 * I am not sure how to solve this. I tried other examples but still getting same
   error.

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 *  Plugin Author [thmufl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thmufl/)
 * (@thmufl)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/#post-3722466)
 * Hi,
 * Looks like the plugin tries to load a remote csv file. Did you enter a # before
   the id in the csv attribute of the chart?
 * I can verify this if you set the debug attribute of the chart to ‘true’ and post
   the console log.
 *  Thread Starter [Bimalkumar Rekhadiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bimaljr/)
 * (@bimaljr)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/#post-3722472)
 * Thanks for quick reply.
 * I enabled debug and now I am getting these details in Console:
 *     ```
       CLIENT:
       	user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (x11; linux i686) applewebkit/537.31 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/26.0.1410.63 safari/537.31
       	touch device: false
       	SVG support: true
       	screen width/height: 1600px/900px
       ```
   
 *     ```
       PLUGIN:
       	IPU-Chart, Version 0.4
       ```
   
 *     ```
       CALL RENDER CHART:
       	id: chart907205
       	csv: csv
       	type: bar
       	category: name
       	value: value
       	format: %s,%f
       	color: auto
       	style: width:100%;height:300px;
       	title: Set a title
       	description: Set a description
       	sort: none
       	interpolate: linear
       	animate: none
       	img:
       	debug: true
       ```
   
 *     ```
       There was an error loading the data: [object XMLHttpRequest]
       ```
   
 * **Here is the code I pasted on the page:**
 *     ```
       [csv id="data"]
       Country,Population
       China,1343.24
       India,1205.07
       USA,313.85
       Indonesia,248.22
       Brazil,205.72
       [/csv]
   
       [chart csv="#data"
              type="bar"
              category="Country"
              value="Population"
              format="string,float"
              color="auto"
              title="Top five most populous countries of the world..."
              description="The top five most populous countries of the world..."
              sort="Population"
              animate="medium"
              img="https://www.ipublia.com/wp-content/uploads/chart-x1.png"
              debug="true"]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Bimalkumar Rekhadiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bimaljr/)
 * (@bimaljr)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/#post-3722476)
 * I got it working.
    the chart shortcode content should be in one line. So I write
   this code in page content area:
 *     ```
       [csv id="data1"]
       Country,Population
       China,1343.24
       India,1205.07
       USA,313.85
       Indonesia,248.22
       Brazil,205.72
       [/csv]
       ```
   
 *     ```
       [chart csv="#data1" type="bar" category="Country" value="Population" format="string,float" color="auto" title="Top five most populous countries of the world..." description="The top five most populous countries of the world..." sort="Population" animate="medium" img="https://www.ipublia.com/wp-content/uploads/chart-x1.png" debug="true"]
       ```
   
 * And the chart is working.
 * I think you need to update your example shortcode.
 *  Plugin Author [thmufl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thmufl/)
 * (@thmufl)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/#post-3722477)
 * Thanks!
 * The linefeeds in the documentation are for legibility. Please enter the data 
   like this:
 *     ```
       [csv id='data']Country,Population
       China,1343.24
       India,1205.07
       USA,313.85
       Indonesia,248.22
       Brazil,205.72[/csv]
       ```
   
 * And remove the linefeeds between the attributes like:
 *     ```
       [chart csv="#data" type="bar" category="Country" ...]
       ```
   
 * Don’t forget the **#** to reference the csv data (from the log it seems that 
   it is missing). It indicates that the data is local (vs remote by url).
 *  Plugin Author [thmufl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thmufl/)
 * (@thmufl)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-there-was-an-error-loading-the-data-csv/#post-3722478)
 * Yes, I’ll clarify this. I voted for legibility of the code… but it’s confusing.
 * Thanks for the helpful feedback! Hope you enjoy the plugin.

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