FusionCharts is a copy-n-paste style installation component - that is to say one does not need to install any external Active-X control or component to render charts. All you need to do is copy the ready-to-use .swf files from the download package to your web server.

You need to check for the following points in case of this problem:

• You've copied Charts folder (SampleCode > Charts) from the download package to the same path in your web server where you have placed the Code folder.
• You've Flash Player 6 (or above) required to view the charts.

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You can pull data from any database (or data storage systems) using the server side script that you're using. Make the server side script to pull the data and then render it in XML format required by FusionCharts. See the previous sections of documentation for detailed information on this.

The Flash player does not consider the ? and & as a part of querystring data and as such treats it as another name-pair value. To overcome this, you'll need to convert all ? and &s to URL Friendly characters (i.e., convert the special characters into a % followed by their 2 digit hexadecimal code).. FusionCharts will automatically correct it for you.

Example: data.asp?param1=value&param2=value2 would be converted to data%2Easp%3Fparam1%3Dvalue%26param2%3Dvalue2

Code Example:

<OBJECT ... >
<PARAM NAME='Movie' Value='FC2Column.swf'>
<PARAM NAME='FlashVars' Value='&dataURL=data%2Easp%3Fparam1%3Dvalue%26param2%3Dvalue22&columnWidth=45&isLocal=1' >
<... Other Code >
<EMBED src='FC2Column.swf' FlashVars='&dataURL=data%2Easp%3Fparam1%3Dvalue%26param2%3Dvalue2&columnWidth=45&isLocal=1' ... >
</OBJECT ... >

Yes. With FusionCharts, it's possible to change the font styling properties. The following attributes of the graph element help you change the font properties:

baseFont="FontName"
This attribute sets the base font family of the graph i.e., all the values and the names in the graph canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here.

baseFontSize="ValidFontSize"
This attribute sets the base font size of the graph i.e., all the values and the names in the graph canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.

baseFontColor="HexColorWithout#"
This attribute sets the base font color of the graph i.e., all the values and the names in the graph canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.

outCnvBaseFont="FontName"
This attribute sets the outside canvas base font family of the graph i.e., all the values and the names outside the graph canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here.

outCnvBaseFontSize="ValidFontSize"
This attribute sets the outside canvas base font size of the graph i.e., all the values and the names outside the graph canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.

outCnvBaseFontColor="HexColorWithout#"
This attribute sets the outside canvas base font color of the graph i.e., all the values and the names outside the graph canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.

Example: <graph basefont='Verdana' bastfontsize='10' basefontcolor='0372AB' outCnvbasefont='Arial' outCnvbastfontsize='11' outCnvbasefontcolor='FF0000'...>

<graph ... showhovercap="1" ...>

Moreover, you can customize the looks of the hover caption box using the following attributes:

Hover caption box's background color
hoverCapBgColor="HexCode"

Hover caption box's border color
hoverCapBorderColor="HexCode"

Example: <graph showHoverCap="1" hoverCapBgColor="FFFFDD" hoverCapBorderColor="FF0000">

You'll need to convert all &s to %26.

Example: <set ... link='data.asp?id=1&subId=2' > would be converted to <set ... link='data.asp?id=1%26subId=2' >

Yes. To print a chart displayed in browser window, just right click on it and select Print or still better, use the browser's print button.

No. FusionCharts renders the chart at the client side and as such it is not possible to save the chart output as an image (unless the end user does it himself using some screen capture utility).

Yes. But for this, you need to have the source FLA file, which is available in the Developer/Enterprise Edition.

To change the data Loading messages, you'll have to modify the objects in the .fla files present in the Loading Scene.

Since Flash doesn't allow loading of XML documents/data from other domains, it is not directly possible to load data from other domains. However, a proxy page can do the trick.

For example, use the following:
<PARAM NAME='Movie' Value='FCColumn.swf?dataURL=Relayer.aspx'>
Now, Relayer.aspx is the page on your server which connects to the remote (other domain) data and finally relays it in XML format (required by FusionCharts).

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