vChart - Frequently Asked Questions

At present, you can make types of Charts.

• Line Chart
• Area Chart
• Stepped Area Chart
• Timeline Chart
• Column Chart
• Combo Chart
• Annotation Chart
• Geo Chart
• Maps
• Candlestick Chart
• Table Chart
• Scatter Chart
• Gauge Chart
• Bubble Chart
• Bar Chart
• Pie Chart

Yes, along with Joomla users, Menus, Categories, Articles, Tags etc., you can also use all available 3rd Party Extensions you can think of e.g. Virtuemart, K2, Joomshopping, Jomsocial, EasySocial, EasyBlog, SobiPro, ZOO, Kunena, JEvents, Event Booking, OS Property, Community Builder, mosetsTree etc.

Yes, displaying a chart in your Joomla articles is extremely easy. vChart allows you to embed Charts anywhere in Articles, K2 Items and other Content Items using simple short code or Keyword {vchartmodule ChartId}. For example, if you wish to include a Colum chart into an article, you will surround the ‘Chart id’ in tags with vchartmodule such as {vchartmodule 76} where 76 is the chart ID from vChart.

vChart gives you the ability to acquire chart data from different resources. Various methods to input chart Data are listed below.

• Manually: You can enter the chart data manually in the “Axes Parameters” section and can manually set the values of the field “Series Name”, can manually set the color for the series, can set the horizontal values for the chart and can enter their values according to your need.
• CSV: The CSV import is a powerful feature of vChart which allows you to import chart data from an external CSV file. The Import from CSV feature only supports files which have UTF-8 encoding. You can also get the Chart data from the CSV file which stored on remote server.
• Database (existing or local): vChart allows you to select any existing database table where you can select any column for creating different Charts. In addition, you can write your custom MySQL queries to fetch data in order to generate charts.
• Remote Database: vChart allows you to connect any external database or remote database and there you can select any column for different Charts parameters from that table.

It should be mainly mysql, mysqli or whatever driver is there on your server.

Yes, vChart gives you the ability to connect any “External Database” or “Remote Database” on “Remote Server” and fetch your desired data to generate charts in a simple and intuitive way.

Yes, vChart allow you to plot a real-time or Live Chart from the Database. The chart automatically gets data from the database and plots a new points on the chart on a given set time interval.