Multi-series Column 3D Chart Specification Sheet
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Chart Image Chart Objects Functional Attributes Titles and Axis Names Chart Cosmetics Divisional Lines/Grids Legend Tool-tip Paddings and Margins | Sample XML Data <categories> element <category> element <dataset> element <set> element Plot Cosmetics | Number Formatting Font Properties Vertical Lines Trend Lines

Multi-series Column 3D chart looks as under:

Sample XML for Multi-series Column 3D chart:

<chart caption='Business Results 2005 v 2006' xAxisName='Month' yAxisName='Revenue' showValues='0' numberPrefix='$'> <categories> <category label='Jan' /> <category label='Feb' /> <category label='Mar' /> <category label='Apr' /> <category label='May' /> <category label='Jun' /> <category label='Jul' /> <category label='Aug' /> <category label='Sep' /> <category label='Oct' /> <category label='Nov' /> <category label='Dec' /> </categories> <dataset seriesName='2006'> <set value='27400' /> <set value='29800'/> <set value='25800' /> <set value='26800' /> <set value='29600' /> <set value='32600' /> <set value='31800' /> <set value='36700' /> <set value='29700' /> <set value='31900' /> <set value='34800' /> <set value='24800' /> </dataset> <dataset seriesName='2005'> <set value='10000'/> <set value='11500'/> <set value='12500'/> <set value='15000'/> <set value='11000' /> <set value='9800' /> <set value='11800' /> <set value='19700' /> <set value='21700' /> <set value='21900' /> <set value='22900' /> <set value='20800' /> </dataset> <trendlines> <line startValue='26000' color='91C728' displayValue='Target' showOnTop='1'/> </trendlines> </chart>

Chart Objects

Object Name | Description | Features Supported | Animation Parameters Supported
BACKGROUND | BACKGROUND refers to the entire background of the chart. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
CANVAS | In 2D Charts, CANVAS refers to the area in which the actual chart is plotted. It is represented by a bounded rectangle. In 3D charts, it refers to the 3D base on which the columns are built. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha
CAPTION | CAPTION refers to the heading of the chart. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
DATALABELS | DATALABELS refer to the x-axis labels of the data. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
DATAPLOT | DATAPLOT refers to the actual plot of the chart. For example, in Column 2D chart, columns are referred to as DATAPLOT. In Pie chart, it's the pies. In Bubble chart, it's the bubbles and so on. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _yScale
DATAVALUES | DATAVALUES refer to the plot values i.e., value of each data (line, column, bar, pie etc.), which is displayed beside the data plot. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
DIVLINES | DIVLINES are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifes a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _y _xScale
LEGEND | LEGEND is the object in which the series names of all data-sets show up. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha
SUBCAPTION | SUBCAPTION refers to the sub-heading of the chart. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
TOOLTIP | TOOLTIP refers to the tool tip shown when mouse is hovered over the data plots. | Font |
TRENDLINES | TRENDLINES refer to horizontal/vertical lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _y _xScale _yScale
TRENDVALUES | TRENDVALUES refer to the display values of trend-lines (if any). | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
VLINES | VLINES are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. In case of bar charts, they are horizontal and run through the width of chart. | Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y _yScale
XAXISNAME | XAXISNAME refers to the x-axis title of the chart. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
YAXISNAME | YAXISNAME refers to the y-axis title of the chart. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y
YAXISVALUES | YAXISVALUES refers to the limit values or divisional line values, which are displayed along the y-axis of the chart. | Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur | _alpha _x _y

<chart> element Attributes

Functional Attributes
These attributes let you control a variety of functional elements on the chart. For example, you can opt to show/hide data labels, data values, y-axis values. You can also set chart limits and extended properties.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
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.
palette | Number | 1-5 | FusionCharts v3 introduces the concept of Color Palettes. 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.
showLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | It sets the configuration whether the x-axis labels will be displayed or not.
labelDisplay | String | WRAP, STAGGER, ROTATE or NONE | Using this attribute, you can control how your data labels (x-axis labels) would appear on the chart. There are 4 options: WRAP, STAGGER, ROTATE or NONE. WRAP wraps the label text if it's longer than the allotted area. ROTATE rotates the label in vertical or slanted position. STAGGER divides the labels into multiple lines.
rotateLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute lets you set whether the data labels would show up as rotated labels on the chart.
slantLabels | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show rotated labels on chart, this attribute lets you set the configuration whether the labels would show as slanted labels or fully vertical ones.
labelStep | Number | 1 or above | By default, all the labels are displayed on the chart. However, if you've a set of streaming data (like name of months or days of week), you can opt to hide every n-th label for better clarity. This attributes just lets you do so. It allows to skip every n(th) X-axis label.
staggerLines | Number | 2 or above | If you've opted for STAGGER mode as labelDisplay, using this attribute you can control how many lines to stagger the label to. By default, all labels are displayed in a single line.
showValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Sets the configuration whether data values would be displayed along with the data plot on chart.
rotateValues | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show data values, you can rotate them using this attribute.
placeValuesInside | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show data values, you can show them inside the columns using this attribute. By default, the data values show outside the column.
showYAxisValues | Boolean | 0/1 | FusionCharts y-axis is divided into vertical sections using div (divisional) lines. Each div line assumes a value based on its position. Using this attribute you can set whether to show those div line (y-axis) values or not.
showLimits | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show chart limit values? showYAxisValues is the single new attribute in v3 which over-rides this value.
showDivLineValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show div line values? showYAxisValues is the single new attribute in v3 which over-rides this value.
yAxisValuesStep | Number | 1 or above | By default, all div lines show their values. However, you can opt to skip every x(th) div line value using this attribute.
showShadow | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show shadows for data plot?
adjustDiv | Boolean | 0/1 | FusionCharts automatically tries to adjust divisional lines and limit values based on the data provided. However, if you want to set your explicit lower and upper limit values and number of divisional lines, first set this attribute to false. That would disable automatic adjustment of divisional lines.
rotateYAxisName | Boolean | 0/1 | If you do not wish to rotate y-axis name, set this as 0. It specifically comes to use when you've special characters (UTF8) in your y-axis name that do not show up in rotated mode.
yAxisNameWidth | Number | (In Pixels) | If you opt to not rotate y-axis name, you can choose a maximum width that will be applied to y-axis name.
clickURL | String |  | 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.
maxColWidth | Number | In Pixels | Maximum allowed column width
use3DLighting | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to use advanced gradients and shadow effects to create better looking 3D charts?
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.
yAxisMinValue | 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.
yAxisMaxValue | 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.
setAdaptiveYMin | Boolean | 0/1 | This attribute lets you set whether the y-axis lower limit would be 0 (in case of all positive values on chart) or should the y-axis lower limit adapt itself to a different figure based on values provided to the chart.

Chart Titles and Axis Names
Using these attributes, you can set the various headings and titles of chart like caption, sub-caption, x-axis and y-axis names etc.

Attribute Name | Type | Description
caption | String | Caption of the chart.
subCaption | String | Sub-caption of the chart.
xAxisName | String | X-Axis Title of the Chart.
yAxisName | String | Y-Axis Title of the chart.

Chart Cosmetics
The following attributes let you configure chart cosmetics like background color, background alpha, canvas color & alpha etc.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
showBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show a border around the chart or not?
borderColor | Color |  | Border color of the chart.
borderThickness | Number | In Pixels | Border thickness of the chart.
borderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Border alpha of the chart.
bgColor | Color |  | 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 | Number | 0-100 | 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.
bgSWF | String |  | 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.
canvasBgColor | Color |  | Sets Canvas background color.
canvasBgAlpha | Number |  | Sets alpha for Canvas Background.
canvasBaseColor | Color |  | Helps you specify the color for canvas base.
showCanvasBg | Boolean |  | Whether to show canvas background?
showCanvasBase | Boolean |  | Whether to show canvas base?
canvasBaseDepth | Number | In Pixels | Height of canvas base (in pixels)
canvasBgDepth | Number | In Pixels | Depth of Canvas Background

Data Plot Cosmetics
These attributes let you configure how your plot (colums, lines, area, pie or any data that you're plotting) would appear on the chart. If the plots can show borders, you can control the border properties using the attributes listed below. Or, if they support gradient fills, you can again configure various properties of the gradient using these attributes. Various other controls over plot cosmetics can be attained using this set of attributes.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
showPlotBorder | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the column, area, pie etc. border would show up.
plotBorderColor | Color |  | Color for column, area, pie border
plotBorderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha for column, area, pie border
plotFillAlpha | Number | 0-100 | If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill alpha for gradient.
overlapColumns | Boolean |  | Whether to overlap columns over each other to give a richer 3D look? If there are too many columns on the chart, it will automatically overlap.

Divisional Lines & Grids
Using this set of attributes, you can control the properties of divisional lines, zero plane and alternate color bands. Divisional Lines are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifes a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart. The zero plane is a 2D/3D plane that signifies the 0 position on the chart. If there are no negative numbers on the chart, you won't see a visible zero plane. Alternate color bands are colored blocks between two successive divisional lines.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
numDivLines | Number | Numeric value > 0 | Number of horizontal axis division lines that you want on the chart.
divLineColor | Color |  | Color for divisional lines
divLineThickness | Number | 1-5 | Thickness of divisional lines
divLineAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of divisional lines.
divLineIsDashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the divisional lines should display as dash?
divLineDashLen | Number | In Pixels | If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.
divLineDashGap | Number | In Pixels | If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between dash.
zeroPlaneColor | Color |  | Color for the Zero Plane. Zero Plane is the line/plane that appears at 0 y-position on canvas, when negative data is being shown on the chart.
zeroPlaneAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of zero plane.
zeroPlaneShowBorder | Boolean |  | Whether to show border of zero plane?
zeroPlaneBorderColor | Color |  | Sets the border color of zero plane.

Legend Properties
In multi-series / combination charts, the series name of each data-set shows up in the legend of the chart. If you do not need the legend, you can opt to hide the same. Also, the legend can be placed at the bottom of the chart or to the right of the chart. Using the attributes below, you can configure the functional and cosmetic properties of the legend.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
showLegend | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show legend for the chart (only multi-series and combination charts)?
legendPosition | String | BOTTOM or RIGHT | The legend can be plotted at two positions on the chart - below the chart (BOTTOM) and on the RIGHT side of the chart.
legendBgColor | Color | Hex Code | Background color for the legend.
legendBgAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Background alpha for the legend.
legendBorderColor | Color | Hex Code | Border Color for the legend.
legendBorderThickness | Number | In Pixels | Border thickness for the legend.
legendBorderAlpha | Number | 0-100 | Border alpha for the legend.
legendShadow | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show a shadow for legend?
legendAllowDrag | Boolean | 0/1 | The legend can be made drag-able by setting this attribute to 1. End viewers of the chart can drag the legend around on the chart.
legendScrollBgColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the background color of the scroll bar.
legendScrollBarColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the bar color of the scroll bar.
legendScrollBtnColor | Color | Hex Code | If you've too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the color of buttons of the scroll bar.

Number Formatting
FusionCharts v3 offers you a lot of options to format your numbers on the chart. Using the attributes below, you can control a myriad of options like: Formatting of commas and decimals Number prefixes and suffixes Decimal places to which the numbers would round to Scaling of numbers based on a user defined scale Custom number input formats

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
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 '
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.
numberPrefix | String | Character | 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 | Character | 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.
decimalSeparator | String | Character | 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 | Character | 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 | Character | 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 | Character | 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.
decimals | Number | 0-10 | 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)
yAxisValueDecimals | Number | 0-10 | If you've opted to not adjust div lines, you can specify the div line values decimal precision using this attribute.

Font Properties
Using the attributes below, you can define the generic font properties for all the text on the chart. These attributes allow you a high level control over font properties. If you intend to specify font properties for individual chart elements (like Caption, sub-caption etc.), you'll need to use the STYLES feature of FusionCharts v3. Using STYLES, you can also specify advanced font properties like Bold, Italics, HTML Mode etc.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
baseFont | String | 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 | 0-72 | 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 |  | 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.
outCnvBaseFont | String | Font Name | This attribute sets the base font family of the chart font which lies outside the canvas i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here.
outCnvBaseFontSize | Number | 0-72 | This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.
outCnvBaseFontColor | Color |  | This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.

Tool-tip
These attributes let you control the tool tip. You can set the background color, border color, separator character and few other details.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
showToolTip | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show tool tip on chart?
toolTipBgColor | Color |  | Background Color for tool tip.
toolTipBorderColor | Color |  | Border Color for tool tip.
toolTipSepChar | String |  | The character specified as the value of this attribute separates the name and value displayed in tool tip.
seriesNameInToolTip | Boolean | 0/1 | For multi-series and combination charts, FusionCharts shows the following information in tool tip (unless tool text is explicitly defined): "Series Name, Category Name, Data Value". This attribute lets you control whether series name would show up in tool tip or not?

Chart Padding & Margins
The following attributes help you control chart margins and paddings. FusionCharts v3 allows you manually customize the padding of various elements on the chart to allow advanced manipulation and control over chart visualization. Padding in FusionCharts is always defined in pixels, unless the attribute itself suggests some other scale (like plotSpacePercent). You can also define the chart margins. Chart Margins refer to the empty space left on the top, bottom, left and right of the chart. That means, FusionCharts wouldn't plot anything in that space. It's not necessary for you to specify any padding/margin values. FusionCharts automatically assumes the best values for the same, if you do not specify the same.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
captionPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute lets you control the space (in pixels) between the sub-caption and top of the chart canvas. If the sub-caption is not defined, it controls the space between caption and top of chart canvas. If neither caption, nor sub-caption is defined, this padding does not come into play.
xAxisNamePadding | Number | In Pixels | Using this, you can set the distance between the top end of x-axis title and the bottom end of data labels (or canvas, if data labels are not to be shown).
yAxisNamePadding | Number | In Pixels | Using this, you can set the distance between the right end of y-axis title and the start of y-axis values (or canvas, if the y-axis values are not to be shown).
yAxisValuesPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute helps you set the horizontal space between the canvas left edge and the y-axis values or trend line values (on left/right side). This is particularly useful, when you want more space between your canvas and y-axis values.
labelPadding | Number | In Pixels | This attribute sets the vertical space between the labels and canvas bottom edge. If you want more space between the canvas and the x-axis labels, you can use this attribute to control it.
valuePadding | Number | In Pixels | It sets the vertical space between the end of columns and start of value textboxes. This basically helps you control the space you want between your columns/anchors and the value textboxes.
plotSpacePercent | Number | 0-80 (In Percent) | On a column chart, there is spacing defined between two columns. By default, the spacing is set to 20% of canvas width. If you intend to increase or decrease the spacing between columns, you can do so using this attribute. For example, if you wanted all columns to stick to each other without any space in between, you can set plotSpacePercent to 0. Similarly, if you want very thin columns, you can set plotSpacePercent to its max value of 80.
chartLeftMargin | Number | In 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 | In 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 | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the top of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartBottomMargin | Number | In Pixels | Amount of empty space that you want to put on the bottom of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
canvasPadding | Number | In Pixels | Allows you to set empty space on the left and right side of columns on the chart canvas
legendPadding | Number | In Pixels | Padding of legend from right/bottom side of canvas

<categories> element
The <categories> element lets you bunch together x-axis labels of the chart. For a multi-series/combination chart, it's necessary to provide data labels using <category> elements under <categories> element. The following properties of <categories> element help you control the font properties of data labels. Additionally, in case of scatter (XY Plot)/Bubble chart, the attributes of <categories> element can be used to define the cosmetics of vertical chart lines.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
font | String | Valid font face | Lets you specify font face for the x-axis data labels.
fontSize | Number |  | Lets you specify font size for the x-axis data labels.
fontColor | Color | Hex Code | Lets you specify font color for the x-axis data labels.

<category> element
Each <category> element represents an x-axis data label. In multi-series/combination charts, it's necessary to provide an equal number of <category> elements and data items (<set> elements within each <dataset>). FusionCharts plots only those data items for which it could find a respective <category> element. You can specify the following attributes for <category> element:

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
label | String |  | This attribute determines the label for the data item. The label appears on the x-axis of chart.
showLabel | Boolean | 0/1 | You can individually opt to show/hide labels of individual data items using this attribute.
toolText | String |  | The label of each category shows up on the x-axis. However, there might be cases where you want to display short label (or abbreviated label) on the axis and show the full label as tool tip. This attribute lets you specify the tool tip text for the label.

Vertical data separator lines
vLines are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. In case of bar charts, they are horizontal and run through the width of chart. For example, if you're plotting a chart showing monthly sales from October 2005-Mar 2006, you might want to plot a vertical separator line between Dec 2005 and January 2006 to indicate end of year. In single series charts, the vertical lines are used as under: <set label='Oct 2005' value='35456' /> <set label='Nov 2005' value='28556' /> <set label='Dec 2005' value='36556' /> <vLine color='FF5904' thickness='2' /> <set label='Jan 2006' value='45456' /> <set label='Feb 2006' value='35456' /> In multi-series charts, it is used between <category> elements as under: <categories> <category label='Oct 2005' /> <category label='Nov 2005' /> <category label='Dec 2005' /> <vLine color='FF5904' thickness='2' /> <category label='Jan 2006' /> <category label='Feb 2006' /> </categories> You can configure the cosmetics of vertical separator lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
color | Color | Hex Color | This attribute defines the color of vertical separator line.
thickness | Number | In Pixels | Thickness in pixels of the vertical separator line.
alpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of the vertical separator line.
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the vertical separator line should appear as dashed?
dashLen | Number | In Pixels | If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash.
dashGap | Number | In Pixels | If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash gap.

<dataset> element
Each <dataset> element contains a series of data. For example, if we're plotting a monthly sales comparison chart for 2 successive years, the first data-set would contain the data for first year and the next one for the second year. You can provide data-set level cosmetics so that all data within that data-set will be plotted in the same color/alpha/etc. Also, each data-set can be named using the seriesName attribute of <dataset> element. The series name appears in the legend of the chart. In our previous example, the series name could have well been 2005 and 2006 for first and second data-set respectively. Depending on the chart type, there are a number of properties which you can define for each <dataset> element.

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
seriesName | String |  | Lets you specify the series name for a particular data-set. For example, if you're plotting a chart to indicate monthly sales analysis for 2005 and 2006, the seriesName for the first dataset would be 2005 and that of the second would be 2006. The seriesName of a data-set is shown in legend.
color | Color | Hex Code (Or Comma separated list) | This attribute sets the color using which columns, lines, area of that data-set would be drawn.
alpha | String | 0-100 or Comma Separated List | This attribute sets the alpha (transparency) of the entire data-set.
showValues | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show the values for this data-set?
includeInLegend | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to include the seriesName of this data-set in legend? This can be particularly useful when you're using combination charts and you've used the area/line chart to plot a trend, and you do not want the seriesName of that trend to appear in legend.

<set> element
Each <set> element (child of <chart> or <dataset> element) represents a set of data which is to be plotted on the graph and determines a set of data which would appear on the chart. For a single series chart, a typical <set> element would look like: <set label='January' value='17400' /> For a multi-series chart, it could look like: <dataset seriesName='2006'> <set value='35445' /> <set value='35675' /> .... and so on .... </dataset> In multi-series/combination charts, you should again note that the number of <category> elements should be equal to the number of data points in each data sets, i.e., if you mention twelve categories (twelve months), the data for both years (2005 & 2006) should also contain twelve <set> elements (twelve rows of data).

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
value | Number |  | Numerical value for the data item. This value would be plotted on the chart.
color | Color | Hex Code | For multi-series and combination charts, you can define the color of data-sets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify it's color at "set" level using this attribute. This attribute accepts hex color codes without #.
link | String |  | You can define links for individual data items. That enables the end user to click on data items (columns, lines, bars etc.) and drill down to other pages. To define the link for data items, use the link attribute. You can define links that open in same window, new window, pop-up window or frames. Please see "Advanced Charting > Drill Down Charts" for more information. Also, you'll need to URL Encode all the special characters (like ? and &) present in the link.
toolText | String |  | By default, FusionCharts shows the series Name, Category Name and value as tool tip text for that data item. But, if you want to display more information for the data item as tool tip, you can use this attribute to specify the same.
showValue | Boolean | 0/1 | You can individually opt to show/hide values of individual data items using this attribute. This value over-rides the data-set level value.
alpha | Number | 0-100 | For multi-series and combination charts, you can define the alpha of data-sets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify it's alpha at "set" level using this attribute.

Trend-lines
Using the <trendLines> element (and children <line> elements), you can define trend lines on the chart. Trend lines are horizontal/vertical lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. For example, if you are plotting sales data of current year, you might want to add previous year's average monthly sales as trend indicator for ease of comparison. For each trend line on the chart, you need to define a <line> element under <trendLines> element as under: <trendLines> <line startValue='895' color='FF0000' displayvalue='Average' /> </trendLines> You can control the cosmetic and functional properties of trend-lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name | Type | Range | Description
startValue | Number | Numeric Value | The starting value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the startValue would be 102.
endValue | Number | Numeric Value | The ending y-axis value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the endValue would be 109. If you do not specify a value for endValue, it would automatically assume the same value as startValue.
displayValue | String |  | If you want to display a string caption for the trend line by its side, you can use this attribute. Example: displayValue='Last Month High'. When you don't supply this attribute, it automatically takes the value of startValue.
color | String | Hex Code | Color of the trend line and its associated text.
isTrendZone | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the trend would display a line, or a zone (filled colored rectangle).
showOnTop | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether the trend line/zone would be displayed over data plots or under them?
thickness | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define the thickness of trend line.
alpha | Number | 0-100 | Alpha of the trend line.
dashed | Boolean | 0/1 | If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define whether the trend line would appear as dashed?
dashLen | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.
dashGap | Number | In Pixels | If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash gap.
valueOnRight | Boolean | 0/1 | Whether to show the trend line value on left side or right side of chart? This is particularly useful when the trend line display values on the chart are colliding with divisional lines values on the chart.