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javascript charts server side exportYou may have often wanted to export charts as images from the backend and email them to users, especially to senior management, who love getting insightful charts & dashboards delivered straight to their inbox. Or maybe you’ve wanted to automate these reports for convenience. While we have your back covered with our server-side Export Handlers for various technologies, we realize that these still require client-side rendering using a browser, which can sometimes be a hassle. Also, recently we’ve been getting requests for a way to export charts without having to render them at client-side. This got us thinking about how to do this in a way that is simple, and yet, works across all server-side scripting languages. Read the rest of this entry »

FusionCharts helps you make kick-ass dashboards that can be viewed on a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or a majority of mobile devices. To view these dashboards, you open your favorite browser, go to the URL of the dashboard either by typing in or clicking through, the browser loads the content and FusionCharts, and you finally get to see your interactive dashboards. It all works fine! But, what if your management asks you to deliver the dashboard through email at the end of each day, so that they do not have to remember to visit the dashboard?
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How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms) – Part 3

October 10, 2009 Tutorials
How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms) – Part 3

It’s been some time since we last talked about using FusionCharts in your .NET applications. Hopefully now you know how to generate charts from data entered in forms, and how to get back the data from the chart in CSV format. In this post, we’ll see how to generate a chart using data from a remote XML file and save…

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How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms) – Part 2

September 23, 2009 Tutorials
How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms) – Part 2

How did it feel to use FusionCharts in your .NET application? Cool huh? We thought so too. In case you are wandering what we are talking about, please check out our earlier post on how to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET applications.

Like we promised, we’re back with a lot more that you can do with FusionCharts in your…

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How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms)

September 15, 2009 Tutorials
How to use FusionCharts in Windows .NET Applications (WinForms)

Here at FusionCharts, we are always trying to make life as simple as possible for you. Just the other day,  a user wanted to embed FusionCharts in a payroll application he was developing – a Windows .NET desktop application. Having helped him with that, we realized that you might need the same for your application. So in this post, we will outline the basic steps needed to embed FusionCharts in…

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Chart data is not just one-way traffic

July 6, 2009 Tutorials
Chart data is not just one-way traffic

Picture this: You are making a sales dashboard to be presented to the upper management of the company. During the presentation, your CFO asks you to pick out the raw data from a particular chart. At that moment, you cannot go back to the underlying database and give him the exact figures, can you? Nor can you afford to waste screen estate on dashboards by displaying tables right below the…

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Export your charts as images or PDFs

May 7, 2009 Tutorials
Export your charts as images or PDFs

How often does this happen to you – you create a stunning information-intensive chart after a lot of hard work for your web page and then intend to embed the same in your annual report? Or mail it to one of your colleagues? But since you have no easy way to export the chart from the web page, you have to create the chart all over again.

What if…

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FusionCharts, FusionWidgets and PowerCharts v3.1 Released

March 6, 2009 News & Announcements
FusionCharts, FusionWidgets and PowerCharts v3.1 Released

FusionCharts, FusionWidgets and PowerCharts are now more powerful than ever before! v3.1 is here for all of them and it continues our unending endeavor to make numbers more glamorous and exciting.

In this post, we will take a run-through view of the new features that have been incorporated in v3.1. In later posts, we intend to detail each of these features in greater detail, so that you can reap their…

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