Pie Chart / Stats functionality - Any plugins

[James Buckingham-2]

Hiya,

Subject line says it all really but I was wondering if anyone knew of
any plugins or rules available for FarCry which allow a user to build
custom pie charts or charts in general?

Thought I'd ask before we look into making our own.

Cheers,
James
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[Marco van den Oever]

What a creative idea :) I don't think there is such plugin...

On Jun 24, 3:42 pm, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> Subject line says it all really but I was wondering if anyone knew of
> any plugins or rules available for FarCry which allow a user to build
> custom pie charts or charts in general?
>
> Thought I'd ask before we look into making our own.
>
> Cheers,
> James

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[Chris Kent-2]

James,

I have a requirement to add this to a existing V4 site. Will hopefully
be working on this over the next couple of weeks.

Will let you know how it goes.

Chris.

On Jun 24, 2:42 pm, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> Subject line says it all really but I was wondering if anyone knew of
> any plugins or rules available for FarCry which allow a user to build
> custom pie charts or charts in general?
>
> Thought I'd ask before we look into making our own.
>
> Cheers,
> James

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[James Buckingham-2]

Fantastic Chris, please do :-).

Short term suggestion I'm going to give them is to create static
imagery of the charts (from Excel) and upload them that way. A more
dynamic approach would be brilliant though as we'll definately need
this in the future.

Cheers,
James
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[modius]

On Jun 25, 4:26 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:
> Fantastic Chris, please do :-).
>
> Short term suggestion I'm going to give them is to create static
> imagery of the charts (from Excel) and upload them that way. A more
> dynamic approach would be brilliant though as we'll definately need
> this in the future.

How do you imagine the data being fed into the chart?

FarCry + ColdFusion is a pretty easy combination for charts of all
descriptions.  But building a generic plugin to suit a the enormous
spectrum of requirements would be a big investment -- especially since
its so easy to build very specific solutions in the environment as
needed.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
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[James Buckingham-2]

Hi Geoff,

I've got a meeting with the department requesting this feature
tomorrow so I'll have a better idea of the requirements then.

Off the top of my head I would see it being a single form plugin /
rule. Choose the title, graph type, data values.

As you say there is probably more to it than that but I guess a good
starting point would be modelled it around the way CFCHART works + any
business requirements

I don't see this being a completely flexible solution from the outset.
If it ticks the boxes for their requirements and something else comes
along down the line we at least have something to build up from.
Opening it up for the community as well may give it the push it needs
to turn into a big idea :-).

Cheers,
James
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[Chris Kent-2]

James,

This sounds similar to how I see it working, keeping it simple.

A new content type
 - chart title
 - display method, used to determine the chart type, pie/bar/line etc.
 - textarea to allow pasting in CSV data to drive the chart

This content type can then be added into the related media content
types for html/news etc.

Chris.

On Jun 25, 10:10 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> I've got a meeting with the department requesting this feature
> tomorrow so I'll have a better idea of the requirements then.
>
> Off the top of my head I would see it being a single form plugin /
> rule. Choose the title, graph type, data values.
>
> As you say there is probably more to it than that but I guess a good
> starting point would be modelled it around the way CFCHART works + any
> business requirements
>
> I don't see this being a completely flexible solution from the outset.
> If it ticks the boxes for their requirements and something else comes
> along down the line we at least have something to build up from.
> Opening it up for the community as well may give it the push it needs
> to turn into a big idea :-).
>
> Cheers,
> James

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[James Buckingham-2]

Is a CSV the best option? What if it's not structured correctly (wrong
heading, missing values etc.)?

Maybe a set of form fields would be the better way to force the user
to give the correct input.

Perhaps I'm just not trusting our users enough to give them that kind
of flexibility :-). I don't know but thought I'd throw the question
in.

Cheers,
James

On Jun 25, 11:18 am, Chris Kent <mxdes...@...> wrote:

> James,
>
> This sounds similar to how I see it working, keeping it simple.
>
> A new content type
>  - chart title
>  - display method, used to determine the chart type, pie/bar/line etc.
>  - textarea to allow pasting in CSV data to drive the chart
>
> This content type can then be added into the related media content
> types for html/news etc.
>
> Chris.
>
> On Jun 25, 10:10 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi Geoff,
>
> > I've got a meeting with the department requesting this feature
> > tomorrow so I'll have a better idea of the requirements then.
>
> > Off the top of my head I would see it being a single form plugin /
> > rule. Choose the title, graph type, data values.
>
> > As you say there is probably more to it than that but I guess a good
> > starting point would be modelled it around the way CFCHART works + any
> > business requirements
>
> > I don't see this being a completely flexible solution from the outset.
> > If it ticks the boxes for their requirements and something else comes
> > along down the line we at least have something to build up from.
> > Opening it up for the community as well may give it the push it needs
> > to turn into a big idea :-).
>
> > Cheers,
> > James

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[Chris Kent-2]

CSV for me, as client creates the data in excel, this also makes it
easier to update.

Updates will not happen often, and only entered by one person. Add
some validation in the display method, so it handles bad CSV data.

Also, as one of the uses for this charting/data is country specific, i
will set it up so they can paste all countries data into one content
item and then select which country(s) data to chart when attaching
chart to html content item. This will allow a single cut and paste to
update all country data instead of having to update 200 items.

Chris.


On Jun 25, 11:27 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:

> Is a CSV the best option? What if it's not structured correctly (wrong
> heading, missing values etc.)?
>
> Maybe a set of form fields would be the better way to force the user
> to give the correct input.
>
> Perhaps I'm just not trusting our users enough to give them that kind
> of flexibility :-). I don't know but thought I'd throw the question
> in.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> On Jun 25, 11:18 am, Chris Kent <mxdes...@...> wrote:
>
> > James,
>
> > This sounds similar to how I see it working, keeping it simple.
>
> > A new content type
> >  - chart title
> >  - display method, used to determine the chart type, pie/bar/line etc.
> >  - textarea to allow pasting in CSV data to drive the chart
>
> > This content type can then be added into the related media content
> > types for html/news etc.
>
> > Chris.
>
> > On Jun 25, 10:10 am, James Buckingham <Clarke...@...> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Geoff,
>
> > > I've got a meeting with the department requesting this feature
> > > tomorrow so I'll have a better idea of the requirements then.
>
> > > Off the top of my head I would see it being a single form plugin /
> > > rule. Choose the title, graph type, data values.
>
> > > As you say there is probably more to it than that but I guess a good
> > > starting point would be modelled it around the way CFCHART works + any
> > > business requirements
>
> > > I don't see this being a completely flexible solution from the outset.
> > > If it ticks the boxes for their requirements and something else comes
> > > along down the line we at least have something to build up from.
> > > Opening it up for the community as well may give it the push it needs
> > > to turn into a big idea :-).
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > James

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