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FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite

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FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite

Overview of this book

User experience can make or break any app these days, no matter whether it's a commercial product or an internal solution. While most web applications out there are boring and outdated when it comes to their charting, you can make yours both stunning and powerful using FusionCharts Suite. Once you have mastered it, you can give your users a delightful reporting experience in no time at all. FusionCharts Beginner's Guide is a practical, step-by-step guide to using FusionCharts Suite for creating delightful web reports and dashboards. Getting you started quickly, you will learn advanced reporting capabilities like drill-down and JavaScript integration, and charting best practices to make the most out of it. Filled with examples, real-life tips and challenges, this book is the firstofitstype in the visualization industry. The book teaches you to create delightful reports and dashboards for your web applications assuming no previous knowledge of FusionCharts Suite. It gets your first chart up in 15 minutes after which you can play around with different chart types and customize them. You will also learn how to create a powerful reporting experience using drill-down and advanced JavaScript capabilities. You will also connect your charts to server-side scripts pulling data from databases. Finally you round up the experience learning reporting best practices including right chart type selection and practical usability tips. By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation in FusionCharts Suite and data visualization itself. You will be able to give your users a delightful reporting experience, from developers to management alike.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
FusionCharts
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Configuring the legend in multi-series charts


When you created your first multi-series chart, you must have seen that the legend at the bottom of the chart helps identify the series name. The legend comes up in all multi-series and combination charts by default.

The user can click on the icon for a data series to hide it and focus on the other series. To bring it back, the user just needs to click on the icon again. The interactivity comes in really handy when you have a number of series plotted on the chart, and the user just wants to focus on a particular series.

Similar to the other chart elements, even the legend is highly customizable, both aesthetically and functionally. By default, the legend is shown at the bottom of the chart. However, if you prefer it on the right, you need to set<chart legendPosition='RIGHT'...>. To learn more about how to customize the legend aesthetically, please check out www.fusioncharts.com/docs | Quick Chart Configuration | Legend.

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