Paul van Zyl

Hey there,

all datasets should be seperated by the next keyword, as the bar chart can have multiple items of data (a dataset) per “label”, if you only have one you should be seperating each with the next keyword.

ie :datasaets=”50 next 20 next 10″ or datasets=”20,10,50 next 30,30,10 next 50,40,20″

alternatively it sounds like your data would be better displayed using a PIE chart or line. Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards

Paul

Hi George,

Currently this is not possible with this charting plugin, though it may be in the future if enough people request it, though this will entirely depend on the charts.js author, as the plugin I’ve built is really the beginnings of an interface for the script making it accessible and soon, easy to use in WordPress.

Thanks for the kind words.

Warmest Regards

Paul

I’m going to assume this resolved your issue, please contact me directly should you require further assistance.

Warmest Regards

Paul

Hey,

anything further on this? if you can show me your code I’lll do my best to help, alternatively I’d like to close this thread before the end of the month.

Thanks, and regards

Paul

Hi Mike,

I’d need to see how you’re using the shortcode as the line chart should be smooth.

Unfortunately its not possible to do the hover over or chart interaction as you describe, as wp charts creates an html5 canvas render of the data. If you’d like something interactive you probably need to look at something that outputs SVG or possibly a google chart.

While charts.js is probably one of the best looking chart libraries, it does fall short at times in my mind because of this feature.

Hope that helps. drop a copy of your shortcode so I can have a look.

Paul

Hi Jann

Sure, you wouldn’t be able to do this from the admin section BUT it wouldn’t be too hard to do in your template files.

The first step would just be getting your external data, such as from a google spreadsheet, or parsing a file, and depending on where its coming from clearly you could either work with the API to do so, or use php or javascript (all depending) to get and output your data in the template file the way you want.

Secondly you’d want to format the output as strings, (with the formatting you would use for the shortcode, ) and then ouput them in the shortcode, using the WP do_shortcode() ; method.

Good luck 🙂

Hi Raphael

Not currently using the post editor and shortcode as most users would, but if you’re just a little comfortable getting your hands dirty you could echo out meta values / values from the database / or anything you wanted and pass it to the shortcode using the wordpress do_shortcode() method.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode