Quick question, I was looking at the properties dialog on the Highcharts Cloud Alpha site and was wondering if there are any plans to make this available to be used as part of the Highcharts js libraries? It would be amazing to be able to embed it in my application to allow end users control over the presentation of their charts.
I've written a similar but far simpler UI to allow them limited control over the chart presentation. If the answer is no is it possible to copy down the CSS/JS/Html from Highcharts Cloud?
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keithnolan
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Gert Vaartjes
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Re: Plans to make Highcharts Cloud Properties Window Availab
Hi,
Thanks for trying Highcharts Cloud! To answer your question, we're not planning releasing the settings dialog as a part of standard Highcharts. Highcharts Cloud is intended for people without programming skills, or perhaps as prototyping tool for developers. If you would like such functionality, you could consider publishing charts on Highcharts Cloud, visitors could edit the chart and have full access to the editor. The export button is expanded with options, like 'edit this chart'
What's your opinion about Highcharts Cloud so far?
best regards,
Gert
Thanks for trying Highcharts Cloud! To answer your question, we're not planning releasing the settings dialog as a part of standard Highcharts. Highcharts Cloud is intended for people without programming skills, or perhaps as prototyping tool for developers. If you would like such functionality, you could consider publishing charts on Highcharts Cloud, visitors could edit the chart and have full access to the editor. The export button is expanded with options, like 'edit this chart'
What's your opinion about Highcharts Cloud so far?
best regards,
Gert
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keithnolan
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Re: Plans to make Highcharts Cloud Properties Window Availab
It looks really impressive. I'm a developer though so may not be your target audience. Our product embeds Highcharts along with other functionality so directing users to the cloud isn't really an option. We develop a BI tool so our users so need some control over the charts, hence my question on the properties dialog.
One suggestion, it would be great to be able to connect to a json/xml/rss type feeds, with so many bodies (especially governement bodies) publishing data under Open Data initiatives there would be a huge opportunity to use HighCharts cloud. (similar to the way you see Tableau used a lot).
One suggestion, it would be great to be able to connect to a json/xml/rss type feeds, with so many bodies (especially governement bodies) publishing data under Open Data initiatives there would be a huge opportunity to use HighCharts cloud. (similar to the way you see Tableau used a lot).
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Gert Vaartjes
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Re: Plans to make Highcharts Cloud Properties Window Availab
Thanks for the input! We'll considering doing that
Gert
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Re: Plans to make Highcharts Cloud Properties Window Availab
Highcharts Cloud is really impressive!!
Back in the days (late 2012 - early 2013), we needed something like a GUI for Highcharts to use in our (Flemish Government) Drupal-sites (to make it possible for non-programmers to embed Highcharts-charts on a webpage). At that time there was no Highcharts cloud nor another visual editor for Highcharts nor a descent Drupal-module for Highcharts. So I started reading the Highcharts-documentation and stumbled upon http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/option/dump.json. (Back then there even was a little type in a return-type, "Colo" instead of "Color"
). Based on this json-dump I created a very very basic interface as Proof Of Concept. In the mean time you guys came up with HC Cloud, which obviously is much better than what we've made, that's for sure! 
However in the Drupal-community, a few people liked the visual editor we made so we decided to take it to the next level:
A couple of weeks ago we released Easychart, a visual editor for the world's best web charting tool: Highcharts!
Check it out: http://www.easychart.org
(All our editor does is generating the json-configuration-object that Highcharts needs.)
Some features:
* our editor is built on top of the Highcharts-Configuration-Options (http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/option/dump.json
* support for Highcharts 4.1.7 (what happened to api/js/highcharts.json in Highcharts 4.1.8?
will it come back??)
* a brand spanking new UI, customizable through JSON-object. Absolutely awesome!
* in-page help through tooltips for every option in the configuration form
* available chart-types: line, spline, column, area, areaspline, arearange, areasplinerange, pie, boxplot, bubble, columnrange, errorbar, funnel, scatter
* copy-paste data from libreoffice/numbers/excel/csv-file and manage in easy-to-use table
With Easychart we hope to make the beauty of Highcharts accessible to almost everyone.
The people at Highsoft really are our heroes and we really hope they'll like what we've built. The code still is (a little) crappy but we're working hard on a new release in Vanilla... Please let us know what you guys think about it.
We'd love to receive some feedback from the Highcharts-creators and -users!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,
Thomas
more info: http://www.easychart.org
https://github.com/bestuurszaken/easychart
https://www.drupal.org/project/easychart
Back in the days (late 2012 - early 2013), we needed something like a GUI for Highcharts to use in our (Flemish Government) Drupal-sites (to make it possible for non-programmers to embed Highcharts-charts on a webpage). At that time there was no Highcharts cloud nor another visual editor for Highcharts nor a descent Drupal-module for Highcharts. So I started reading the Highcharts-documentation and stumbled upon http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/option/dump.json. (Back then there even was a little type in a return-type, "Colo" instead of "Color"
). Based on this json-dump I created a very very basic interface as Proof Of Concept. In the mean time you guys came up with HC Cloud, which obviously is much better than what we've made, that's for sure! However in the Drupal-community, a few people liked the visual editor we made so we decided to take it to the next level:
A couple of weeks ago we released Easychart, a visual editor for the world's best web charting tool: Highcharts!
Check it out: http://www.easychart.org
(All our editor does is generating the json-configuration-object that Highcharts needs.)
Some features:
* our editor is built on top of the Highcharts-Configuration-Options (http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/option/dump.json
* support for Highcharts 4.1.7 (what happened to api/js/highcharts.json in Highcharts 4.1.8?
will it come back??) * a brand spanking new UI, customizable through JSON-object. Absolutely awesome!
* in-page help through tooltips for every option in the configuration form
* available chart-types: line, spline, column, area, areaspline, arearange, areasplinerange, pie, boxplot, bubble, columnrange, errorbar, funnel, scatter
* copy-paste data from libreoffice/numbers/excel/csv-file and manage in easy-to-use table
With Easychart we hope to make the beauty of Highcharts accessible to almost everyone.
The people at Highsoft really are our heroes and we really hope they'll like what we've built. The code still is (a little) crappy but we're working hard on a new release in Vanilla... Please let us know what you guys think about it.
We'd love to receive some feedback from the Highcharts-creators and -users!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,
Thomas
more info: http://www.easychart.org
https://github.com/bestuurszaken/easychart
https://www.drupal.org/project/easychart