List of Chart Objects

Object Name Description STYLES supported Animation Parameters
BACKGROUND Background refers to the background for entire chart.
  • Animation
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y
  • _xScale
  • _yScale
GAUGE The color range (qualitative range) for the chart.
  • Animation
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y
  • _xScale
  • _yScale
LED Led blocks indicating the value using fill.
  • Animation
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
VALUE Value textfield for the chart (if visible).
  • Animation
  • Font
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y
TICKMARKS Tick marks on the gauge scale.
  • Animation
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y
TICKVALUES Value for tick marks.
  • Animation
  • Font
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y
LIMITVALUES Textfield representing chart lower and upper limit.
  • Animation
  • Font
  • Shadow
  • Glow
  • Bevel
  • Blur
  • _alpha
  • _x
  • _y

<chart> element

Attribute Name Type / Range Description
Functional Attributes
animation Boolean (0/1) This attribute lets you set the configuration whether the chart should appear in an animated fashion. If you do not want to animate any part of the chart, set this as 0.
defaultAnimation Boolean (0/1) By default, each chart animates some of its elements. If you wish to switch off the default animation patterns, you can set this attribute to 0. It can be particularly useful when you want to define your own animation patterns using STYLE feature.
clickURL URL in FusionCharts format The entire chart can now act as a hotspot. Use this URL to define the hotspot link for the chart. The link can be specified in FusionCharts Link Format.
palette Number (1-5) Each chart has 5 pre-defined color palettes which you can choose from. Each palette renders the chart in a different color theme. Valid values are 1-5.
paletteThemeColor Color Code If you want your own palette derived from a particular hex color, you an specify the same here. All other colors on the chart would automatically derive from that palette.
annRenderDelay Number (seconds) If you've defined any annotation groups over chart, using this attribute you can set the duration after which they'll render on the chart. The timer starts from the time the chart has initialized.
autoScale Boolean (0/1) If you've defined the chart parameters (like gauge origin, co-ordinates etc.) using a different chart size and now want to scale the chart to a different size, you need to specify the original width and height and then set this attribute to 1.
origW Number (Pixels) If you've opted to auto-scale the chart, you need to convey the original width of chart using this attribute. During auto-scaling, this attribute is mandatory to specify.
origH Number (Pixels) If you've opted to auto-scale the chart, you need to convey the original height of chart using this attribute. During auto-scaling, this attribute is mandatory to specify.
showValue Boolean (0/1) Whether to show chart's value?
showShadow Boolean (0/1) Whether to show shadow for the chart?
showPrintMenuItem Boolean (0/1) Whether to show "Print Chart" item in the context menu of the chart? Even if you opt to hide the item in context menu, you can still opt to invoke print() JavaScript method of the chart to print the same.
showAboutMenuItem Boolean (0/1) Setting this to 1 shows up a custom context menu in the chart, which can be customized to show your text and can be linked to your URL. For e.g., you can set the context menu of the chart to include "About your company name" and then link to your company home page. By default, the chart shows "About FusionCharts" when right clicked.
aboutMenuItemLabel String The menu item label for the custom context menu item.
aboutMenuItemLink String Link for the custom context menu item. You can specify the link in FusionCharts link format to be able to open the same in new window, pop-ups, frames or as JavaScript links.
 
Axis properties
setAdaptiveMin Boolean (0/1) This attribute lets you set whether the lower limit would be 0 (in case of all positive values on chart) or should the lower limit adapt itself to a different figure based on values provided to the chart.
upperLimit Number This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts based on the data provided by you.
lowerLimit Number This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts based on the data provided by you.
upperLimitDisplay String

This attribute allows you to display a label instead of the lower limit. For example, in a chart displaying Literacy Rate on a scale of 0-100%, you may need to show the label Low at the starting point of the chart. Upon using this attribute to specify the label, the value 0 would be replaced by Low.

Default value: If you do not specify the lowerLimitDisplay attribute, the lower limit value would be shown.

lowerLimitDisplay String

This attribute allows you to display a label instead of the upper limit. Upon using this attribute, the upper limit of the chart gets replaced by the label specified.

Default value: If you do not specify the upperLimitDisplay attribute, the upper limit value would be shown.

 
Real-time properties
dataStreamURL URL This parameter sets the path of the page which is supposed to relay real-time data to the chart. If you've special characters as a part of your data stream URL, like ? or &, you'll need to URL Encode the entire dataStreamURL

This page needs to be on the same sub-domain on which the chart is hosted and invoked from. Otherwise, the Flash sandbox security would restrict it from accessing the data and hence the real-time feature won't work.
Example: dataStreamURL='liveQuote.aspx?name=xyz'
refreshInterval Number For this parameter, you can specify the number of seconds after which the chart will look for new data. This process will happen continuously - i.e., if you specify 5 seconds here, the chart will look for new data every 5 seconds.
dataStamp String Constantly changing data stamp that can be added to real time data URL, so as to maintain a state. Please see the section "Real time capabilities > Adding data-stamp"
showRTMenuItem Boolean (0/1) Whether to show the real-time update related menu items (like Start/Stop Update) in chart's context menu?
 
Gauge Scale (Color Range) Properties
gaugeFillColor Color Code Background fill color for gauge
showGaugeBorder Boolean (0/1) Whether to show a border around gauge scale?
gaugeBorderColor Color Code Color of gauge scale border.
gaugeBorderThickness Number (Pixels) Thickness of gauge scale border.
gaugeBorderAlpha Number (0-100) Alpha of gauge scale border.
 
LED properties
ledSize Number (Pixels) This sets the size of each LED bar.
ledGap Number (Pixels) This sets the distance or the gap between two LED bars.
useSameFillColor Boolean (0/1) If you've defined color range for the chart, the LED bars take their fill color based on color range. But, if you want all the LED bars to use the color of the last color range (which matches current value), set this attribute to 1.
useSameFillBgColor Boolean (0/1) If you want all the background (non-activated) LED blocks to use the color of the last color range (which matches current value), set this attribute to 1.
 
Tick Marks & Values
showTickMarks Boolean (0/1) Whether to show tick marks?
showTickValues Boolean (0/1) Whether to show tick values?
showLimits Boolean (0/1) Whether to show the first and last tick value (i.e., chart lower and upper limit)?
adjustTM Boolean (0/1) Whether to adjust major tick mark number so as to best distribute the specified chart scale.
ticksBelowGauge Boolean (0/1) Whether to show ticks below the gauge scale or above?
placeTicksInside Boolean (0/1) Whether to place ticks inside the gauge or outside?
placeValuesInside Boolean (0/1) Whether to place tick values inside the gauge?
majorTMNumber Number Number of major tick marks.
majorTMColor Color Code Major tick marks color.
majorTMAlpha Number (0-100) Major tick marks alpha.
majorTMHeight Number (Pixels) Height of major tick marks.
majorTMThickness Number (Pixels) Thickness of major tick mark line.
minorTMNumber Number Number of minor tick marks.
minorTMColor Color Code Color of minor tick marks.
minorTMAlpha Number (0-100) Alpha of minor tick marks.
minorTMHeight Number (Pixels) Height of minor tick marks.
minorTMThickness Number (Pixels) Thickness of minor tick marks.
tickMarkDistance Number (Pixels) Distance between the gauge scale and tick marks.
tickValueDistance Number (Pixels) Distance between tick values and tick marks.
tickValueStep Number If you need to show every n-th tick value only, you can specify that value here.
tickValueDecimals Number Number of decimals to which tick values would be rounded to.
forceTickValueDecimals Boolean (0/1) Whether to force number of decimals on tick values?
 
Message Logger
useMessageLog Boolean (0/1) Whether to use message logger for the chart?
messageLogWPercent Number (percent) This attribute lets you set the width percent of the message logger window w.r.t entire chart width. So, if you set it as 80, the message logger window will take up 80% of chart width.
messageLogHPercent Number (percent) This attribute lets you set the height percent of the message logger window w.r.t entire chart height.
messageLogShowTitle Boolean (0/1) Whether to show the title for message logger?
messageLogTitle String If you've opted to show the title for message logger, you can define your custom title here. Examples are "Error log", "Server History" etc. The title displays at the top left corner of chart.
messageLogColor Color Code You can customize the color of the entire message log window by setting a hex value for this attribute.
messageGoesToLog Boolean (0/1) The messages streamed to the chart can either be displayed in the message log window or can be passed to JavaScript (which we'll see next). This attribute lets you control whether the messages should be logged in the in-built log window.
messageGoesToJS Boolean (0/1) This attribute lets you configure whether each message streamed from the server should be passed to a local JavaScript function.
messageJSHandler String If you've opted to pass each message to JavaScript function, this attribute lets you define the name of the function. This helps you create your custom functions to react to messages streamed from server.
messagePassAllToJS Boolean (0/1) Whether all parameters passed as part of message envelope be passed to the custom JavaScript function.
 
Number Formatting Properties
formatNumber Boolean (0/1) This configuration determines whether the numbers displayed on the chart will be formatted using commas, e.g., 40,000 if formatNumber='1' and 40000 if formatNumber='0 '
numberPrefix String Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all dollars figure on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' $' to show like $40000, $50000. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
numberSuffix String Using this attribute, you could add suffix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all figure quantified as per annum on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' /a' to show like 40000/a, 50000/a. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
decimals Number Number of decimal places to which all numbers on the chart would be rounded to.
forceDecimals Boolean (0/1) Whether to add 0 padding at the end of decimal numbers? For example, if you set decimals as 2 and a number is 23.4. If forceDecimals is set to 1, FusionCharts will convert the number to 23.40 (note the extra 0 at the end)
formatNumberScale Boolean (0/1) Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number after truncating and rounding it - e.g., if formatNumberScale is set to 1, 1043 would become 1.04K (with decimals set to 2 places). Same with numbers in millions - a M will added at the end. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
defaultNumberScale String The default unit of the numbers that you're providing to the chart. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
numberScaleUnit String Unit of each block of the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
numberScaleValue String Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
scaleRecursively Boolean (0/1) Whether to scale the number recursively? For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
maxScaleRecursion Number How many recursions to complete during recursive scaling? -1 completes the entire set of recursion.
scaleSeparator String What character to use to separte the scales that generated after recursion?
decimalSeparator String This option helps you specify the character to be used as the decimal separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
thousandSeparator String This option helps you specify the character to be used as the thousands separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
inDecimalSeparator String In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give a error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can covert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the decimal separator. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
inThousandSeparator String In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give a error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can covert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Number Formatting section.
 
Background Cosmetics
bgColor Color Code This attribute sets the background color for the chart. You can set any hex color code as the value of this attribute. To specify a gradient as background color, separate the hex color codes of each color in the gradient using comma. Example: FF5904,FFFFFF. Remember to remove # and any spaces in between. See the gradient specification page for more details.
bgAlpha Number (0-100) Sets the alpha (transparency) for the background. If you've opted for gradient background, you need to set a list of alpha(s) separated by comma. See the gradient specification page for more details.
bgRatio Numbers separated by comma If you've opted for a gradient background, this attribute lets you set the ratio of each color constituent. See the gradient specification page for more details.
bgAngle Number (0-360) Angle of the background color, in case of a gradient. See the gradient specification page for more details.
showBorder Boolean (0/1) Whether to show a border around the chart or not?
borderColor Color Code Border color of the chart.
borderThickness Number (Pixels) Border thickness of the chart.
borderAlpha Number (0-100) Border alpha of the chart.
bgSWF URL of SWF To place any Flash movie as background of the chart, enter the (path and) name of the background SWF. It should be in the same domain as the chart.
bgSWFAlpha Number (0-100) Helps you specify alpha for the loaded background SWF.
logoURL String You can load an external logo (JPEG/PNG/SWF) on the chart once it has rendered. This attribute lets you specify the URL of the same. Owing to Flash Player security settings, you can only specify logo that are on the sub-domain as the SWF file of the chart.
logoPosition String ( TL, TR, BL, BR, CC )

Where to position the logo on the chart:

  • TL - Top-left
  • TR - Top-right
  • BR - Bottom right
  • BL - Bottom left
  • CC - Center of screen
logoAlpha Number (0-100) Once the logo has loaded on the chart, you can configure its opacity using this atribute.
logoScale Number (0-100) You can also change the scale of externally loaded logo at run-time by specifying a value for this parameter.
logoLink String If you want to link the logo to an external URL, specify the link in this attribute. The link can be in FusionCharts link format, allowing you to link to new windows, pop-ups, frames etc.
 
Font Properties
baseFont Font Name This attribute lets you set the font face (family) of all the text (data labels, values etc.) on chart. If you specify outCnvBaseFont attribute also, then this attribute controls only the font face of text within the chart canvas bounds.
baseFontSize Number This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.
baseFontColor Color Code This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.
 
Tool tip properties
showToolTip Boolean (0/1) Whether to show tool tip for the annotations?
toolTipBgColor Color Code Background color for the tool tip
toolTipBorderColor Color Code Border Color for the tool tip.
showToolTipShadow Boolean (0/1) Whether to show shadow for tool-tips on the chart.
 
Chart Paddings & Margins
chartLeftMargin Number (Pixels) Amount of empty space that you want to put on the left side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartRightMargin Number (Pixels) Amount of empty space that you want to put on the right side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartTopMargin Number (Pixels) Amount of empty space that you want to put on the top of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartBottomMargin Number (Pixels) Amount of empty space that you want to put on the bottom of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
valuePadding Number (Pixels) Distance between the value and gauge.

<colorRange> --> <color> element

Attribute Name Type / Range Description
minValue Number Indicates the starting value of that color range. The minValue of the first color range should be equal to the chart's lowerLimit, and the minValue of the succeeding <color> element should be equal to the current <color> element's maxValue.
maxValue Number Indicates the end value of that color range. The maxValue of the last color range should be equal to the chart's upperLimit.
code Color Code Actual color (hex color) of the color range using which it will be filled.
alpha Number (0-100) Sets the transparency of each range in the color range.
borderColor Color Code Border color of that particular color in the range. If you want to specify a different border for each range in the color range, you can use this attribute.
borderAlpha Number (0-100) Border alpha for the color range.


The chart also accepts the following XML elements, which have not been discussed here:

  • <annotations> - Discussed in the section Annotations
  • <styles> - Discussed in the section STYLEs
  • <alerts> - Discussed in the section Alert Manager