Restyling

[jogoeire]

Hi Folks,

I have a couple of questions around restyling of Fusion Charts. Were going for a flatter more contemporarly look for our application and would like charts to match. Given that I have a couple of questions:

 

- Can charts be reskinned

- Is there a flat theme that can be turned on

- Do I need to restyle each chart individually

- Is there any documentation on this... is this done often or not much at all?

 

Wed prefer to be able to do a broad generic restyling (flat look) BECUASE our users will be able to create new charts through the UI... so all our charts are not static... they will come and go. A generic restlying would mean we dont have to worry about having charts with different looks.

 

Linkedin use FC and seem to have done a good job of resknning them.

http://blog.fusioncharts.com/2011/05/we-are-proud-to-be-a-part-of-linkedin/

 

Thanks for your help Community!!

[Guest Sumedh]

Hi,

 

Welcome to FusionCharts Forum!

 

 

FusionCharts XT offers 5 palettes for you to choose from. The palette theme configures colors of the following:

 

- Background and border

- Canvas border and background

- Fonts

- Div lines

- Tooltip

- Anchors

- Legend

 

For more information, please refer this link: http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/contents/AttDesc/ChartPalettes.html

 

To configure the chart more with styling, you can use FusionCharts XT Styles:

 

FusionCharts XT uses Styles to help you apply font, effects and animations to various objects of the chart.

 

For more information, please refer the this link: http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/contents/Styles/Styles.html

 

Also note, In JavaScript charts, customized animation, shadow, glow, bevel and blur style types are not available. JavaScript charts provide limited support for customized Font style.

 

If you want to customize more without using styles, then you can use various attributes to configure the chart like:

 

- plotGradientColor

- baseFont

- color

- plotBorderColor etc.

 

You can get all these attributes under the chart XML specification sheet in the documentation.

 

Suppose, you want to configure the attribute for Column2D chart, then you can refer to Column2D chart XML specification sheet.

 

Refer this link: http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/contents/ChartSS/Column2D.html

 

Hope this helps!