Patapage

A new button in Patapage: “chart”, which let’s you define data series and add them on any page of your site, in different styles.

You create your Patapage button as usual, get a small JavaScript to paste, and then you’ll have on the site a button, we chose a docked button for the example:

http://patapage.com/demo/chart.jsp

And then by clicking and doing log in, you will be able to insert and edit chart data:

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Picking “edit data” you get and editable list of data, editable in-place in the browser:

and you can add series on the fly, change data etc. Picking “edit configuration” a host of options for your graph layout appear:

and you can play and get your desired graph.

Notice that the chart preview changes on the fly while you do your tests.

Also Patapage will keep a (deletable) history of changes you (or others) did on the chart and data, so that it is possible to recover a previous version and see the history of changes. In fact, you may even ask site visitors to contribute data.

Isn’t this a quick and effective way to enrich your web site?

In this blog post, JavaScript charting tools: an overview, Roberto talks about the  jqPlot library we used and why it was selected.