Chapter 7. SPJS Charts for SharePoint
This solution is a bridge between Google’s Visualization API
and SharePoint. This enables you to get data from any
SharePoint list or library within the site collection, and create dynamic
charts with Google Visualization API.
The solution is used to get the data from the lists and present them
to the Google Visualization API in the correct format. The charts are
created with the Google Visualization API and therefore all chart-related
issues must be checked with the documentation here: http://code.google.com/intl/en-EN/apis/chart/.
You will find a link to the relevant configuration options for the selected
chart from within the Edit Chart GUI.
This chapter will walk you through the setup of the solution and
explain the various settings available in the Edit Chart GUI. It will not go
into details about how you can create different charts. You will, however,
find chart examples in my private blog, http://sharepointjavascript.wordpress.com.
The solution works in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010.
The technique presented here is entirely client-side and all
code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data is sent
to any server.
The end user does not need to have more than design rights to the
site to set it up for the first time. Creating charts after the initial
setup can be done with contribute rights.
I have wrapped all code in one file to ease the setup process for the end user. The script-generated HTML ...
