I specified the following configuration in CDE for an openflash chart:
the name, html object, title, chart type, datasource (which uses a jdbc connection) and set 3D to true
When I click preview, all other CCC charts appear and the space reserved for the openflash chart is blank
Does the openflash chart component work?
Is there anything else I was supposed to configure that I am missing out on?
Rumbi
I can't really answer your question without some more details (like bi-server version), but it's probably a moot point.
We haven't yet removed OpenFlashCharts from CDE because some older dashboards depend on it, but that component is very much EOL. The only "advantage" you get from it relative to CCC is that you get 3d charts (which we didn't implement in CCC because, frankly, they only make it harder to interpret the chart data). If CCC doesn't work for you (e.g. because you really really want 3d charts), I suggest you try the Fusion Charts plugin provided by ExpandIT, I believe they wrapped Fusion Charts into a CDE component.
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Here is my scenario...
Using Orchard CMS 1.7.1 I have created a custom Content Type named 'VistaImage' using the Orchard UI. This Content Type defines one field based on a Media Library Picker Field, this field is also named 'VistaImage'.
A Projection of groups of Vista Images are placed in the 'Featured' Zone as a Widget reference and works well.
Using the Shape Tracer on the resulting page(s), the shape hierarchy looks as follows:
Zone [Featured]
Widget
List
Content Alt: Content-VistaImage
Fields_MediaLibraryPicker Alt: Fields.MediaLibraryPicker-VistaImage
Media
Parts_Image_Summary
What I want to do is to provide alternative shapes from the Content shape downwards. This is easy enough for Content itself and for Fields_MediaLibraryPicker (as the Shape Tracer automatically provides applicable alternatives (as indicated above)).
My problem comes in providing alternatives for the Media and Parts_Image_Summary parts.
Looking at the documentation for Alternates on the Orchard web site, I thought that if I created a new shape in my Theme at at /Views/Parts/Image.Summary-VistaImage.cshtml this would get referenced, but it does not (though if I remove the '-VistaImage' the shape does get used, but this would, I believe change this shape for every Content Type, which is not what I want to do).
Any advice/direction on how I should approach this requirement would be apprciated.
Thanks.
From personal experience, when you get that low level in the shapes, alternatives don't work very well, if at all. The only way I best deal with those scenarios is to choose the next applicable shape above it, and do an if statement to determine if its the content you want, in which case to remove the default shape display and implement your own hard-coded layout.
eg if the shape simplay says #display(Model.whatever) and you know that displays is garbage for you, look into the model.
For example, I had trouble creating a 4 leveled menu for bootstrap as it only typically deals with 2 levels, so i manipulated the lowest level shape. I.e:
if{Model.Items.Any()}{
//code to generate another submenu for that menuItem
}
This may not even be the most correct way to address this, just the solution I found has worked.
So in your case I'd use VS debug and breakpoint where the mediafield picker is rendered, and find out if the model holds any information letting you know it's your VistaImage content.
I have built a dashboard that displays many bar and pie charts. It also has the ability to filter. Some filters cause there to be no data for the pie charts, and this causes my app to break.
It has to do with d3.svg.arc. The error I get is 'problem parsing d="MNaN, NaN...". I found this answer by Mike Bostock, and I think it's related.
Should I
Figure out how to handle the case where the data is 0, or
Use .exit? (My attempts here have given me problems on the initial draw, which sometimes also won't have data).
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I've spent hours scouring the net for anything to do with VBA calling data from the web in excel and nothing provides a tutorial on how to do so, only complicated examples un-related to what I want to do.
I want to pull data from either a .html or .xml site, doesn't matter, via Excel and find specific points in that data. I can find specific points but don't know how to get the data or scroll through multiple lines. I've done this exact sort of thing in mIRC (sort of C code).
http://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=438
http://api.eve-central.com/api/quicklook?typeid=438
Those are two examples, using roughly the same data I'd like to retrieve. It'd be FAR more specific with at most 100 or so different values.
I'd like to be TAUGHT how to do it, not given the code to do it, or if you must explain each part with comments in-depth please.
Edit: I'm just saying here that I don't want you to link me some random code that does something similar and expect me to modify it without an explanation. Not wanting someone to just write up a full guide of internet capability for Excel.
Thanks
Nick
Edit: I'll try explaining it again in a different sense. I play a game called EVE Online, and there's a lot of "market" databases online that allow access in this form for programs to extract data of certain items' prices. Pretty much I want to do that in an Excel document and then obviously list them in a hidden sheet or something. I don't want to have to use a secondary program, I know it's entirely possible within just Excel.
Have a look here - How can I send an HTTP POST request to a server from Excel using VBA? and getHTTP with (excel) VBA?
That deals with the code part. A note regarding the links provided, refer to the MSDN documentation regarding the WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP to gain better clarity regarding what the these libraries are used for. I also suggested reading up a bit about using COM objects in VBA
I'd like to be TAUGHT how to do it,
not given the code to do it, or if you
must explain each part with comments
in-depth please.
Not to be rude, but this sounds to me like you want someone to teach you how to code. I dont think one can simply teach code.
Edit:
I misunderstood your question, correct me if I wrong, but the crux of your question revolves around I can find specific points but don't know how to get the data or scroll through multiple lines.
Using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163921(office.10).aspx, you would probably need to get all your result nodes into an XML object. You could then need to loop through the result set ( which I think is what you meant by scroll).
Related question: How to parse XML using vba
This is a quick and rough answer, becuase what your doing sounds a little bit dodgy(see comment), but from my understanding of Excel, I think your best bet is to use the ODBC driver and connect directly with MS Access (then export into excel) to the same database that the website is using to to receive all the data.
Which will mean that you will need:
1. both the username and password to the database.
2. the associated sql queries that the website is using to retrieve the data. (which may include joins, functions etc.)
Otherwise, you will have to get it through the "front", and you will need to write your own html parser for the section of each page to generate an xml file so that excel can read the final contents table data cleanly. (for excel 2007 and up.)
Doing so will also allow you be able to infer a column's 'data type' such as int, char, bigint etc. in the xml schema. But yeah, this might only need to be done probably in something like console C#/C++/java whatever, not in excel itself because I'm pretty sure excel doesn't have a feature that lets you write your own 'HTML to XML' parser for a website it knows nothing about.
hope this helps..
1) Copy a link to the price data you want. ie
http://api.eve-central.com/api/marketstat?typeid=34&typeid=35®ionlimit=10000002
2) In excel select the location you want the data to be imported to. Preferably a blank sheet.
3) Data -> Import External Data -> New Web Query.
4) Paste the link into the address bar. You can edit the link later on to add or subtract typeids.
5) Press the Go button.
6) Select one of the yellow arrow boxes. I chose the box directly above the line evec_api version.
7) Press the Ok button to import the data to the sheet you selected in step 2.
Now you can right click on the data to "Refresh Data".
Use whatever look up formulas to read the prices from this data to the rest of your sheet.
You can change the address of the Web Query by right clicking on any part of the data and selecting "Edit Query..."
Hope this gets you going in the right direction. This will work with Excel version 2002(XP) and 2003. Excel 2007 is more friendly to XML queries.
Upgrading from 8.2 to 8.3 and testing out the new No Data Content functionality. Report looks in order if results are returned. The No Data message does not appear. However if we test the report (pass in parameters expecting no results), we are returned a blank page (pdf, html, excel output). Not even the header or footer appear on the page. And the No Data Content message does not appear as well.
We have very complex reports using Oracle SQL and in most cases the Header content is linked to a SQL statement to render output from the database as well as list the parameters passed in. The issue seems to be related to embedded data objects, i.e. we have a list object embedded within a table object. I've tried stripping out the extra layers with no success thus far.
In 8.2 we used style variables, i.e. RowNumber()=0 or RowNumber() is null to conditionally hide data objects in the body of the report. We've never used any conditions to hide or display the header or the footer and in 8.3 now this seems to be an issue.
This seemed like such a useful enhancement in 8.3 but we haven't gotten it working yet. Any thoughts or suggestions to try?
Thanks for reading this. I appreciate any advice.
Joe
We ran into this same problem when upgrading reports from 8.2 => 8.4. We reported it to Cognos as a bug -- Not sure if they've assigned a bug tracker id to it, but we got the impression it wasn't going to be fixed soon. (Obviously, if it exists in 8.3 and it has been carried forward to the next version, it's not a high priority.)
I'm sorry I don't have an answer at the moment on how to fix it, but I was planning to look into work arounds next week. I'll edit this post with any ideas I come up with.
UPDATE:
Not sure if this is an available feature of 8.3, but in 8.4 there is a new "No Data Contents" property for data containers (lists, blocks, etc.). Setting this value to yes creates two tabs at the top of the page, one for a page to be displayed if data is returned, and another for instances when no records are found. You can customize a message to be displayed using that second page. Pretty cool, actually, but buried in the documentation.
Hope that helps. If you still have problems, check out the Index topic "no data > specify what appears for a data container."
yea it appears that a blank pdf is returned... but in fact the cognos viewer bugs out at the second prompt page if there is no data. Headers and footers and items in which didnt need data to render ... as not showing up as well.
This existed in 8.2 and we were always able to do some sort of work around to get it to atleast show. Seems much more prevalent in 8.3 now.
Id like a solution on this as well! halp! >_<
Edit: seems a slight work around is to create a new report in 8.3 and copy each component starting with queries... then variables.. then objects on the page.. followed by page sets and master detail relationships. in that order for simplicity. Essentially recreating the report from scratch in 8.3 seems to fix the problem.
This works for about 90% of our reports.
I want to create visuals along the lines of CNN's "red-state, blue-state" shadings of the states in the U.S. for my project. I'm planning to do something fancier than just shading the state's shape in a color. Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons (or - if not open source - others) that I can import into Word, Excel, etc. that I can use to show complicated graphs based on states?
I have Map Point, but haven't been able to figure out how to shade the states in a complex way.
you could try google charts, it looks like http://www.woot.com is doing something similar to what you need
Here is a good example using google maps... I've used code like that before.. perhaps from this exact example.
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_states2.htm
EDIT: you might want to consider converting the states.xml into JSON... it'll be smaller (136k of XML right now!) and should load faster in most browsers.
There might be a couple parts to the question you are asking, but to address the first part "Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons...", here's a resource to check out:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States
It's a list of various SVG(scalable vector graphics) files which can be imported into a number of applications. Basically a giant xml representation of lines and endpoints. This can be directly converted to XAML, if you're into a more programmatic way of charting(ie, C# w/ Silverlight).
However, to address the second part regarding MS Office, Visio can import SVG files for manipulation as well. I'm unsure what type of graphs you were looking for, but I hope this can assist in some small way on your path to awesomeness ;)