September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
20h 21m
English
The most common way to provide the actual data to a <cfchartseries> tag is to specify a QUERY attribute, then tell ColdFusion which columns of the query to look in by specifying itemcolumn and valuecolumn attributes. All of the examples you’ve seen so far in this chapter have supplied their data in this way.
It’s also possible to omit the query, itemcolumn, and valuecolumn attributes and instead plot the data points individually using the <cfchartdata> tag, nested within your <cfchartseries>. The <cfchartdata> approach can come in handy if you want to permanently hard-code certain data points onto your charts, if you need to format your data in a special way, or if you come across a situation where ...
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