Tooltip displays when series alpha 0

[MartinS]

I am trying to create a 'floating' stacked column chart, and to do this, have created a series which I set as not visible by setting the border and fill to alpha=0.  Now, the problem is that the default tooltip text still displays when you hover over the empty space where the 'hidden' series is - why does this happen?  Does the tooltip not take it's properties from the series, and therefore should be invisible too?  Have tried setting the tooltext attribute to '' but still no joy.

The xml for the dataset tag is set to:

alpha='01' includeInLegend='0' anchorAlpha='01' anchorBgAlpha='01'

Any ideas or suggestions as to how to fix this?

Thanks

Martin

Edited May 13, 2010 by Guest

[Guest Rajroop]

Hey Martin,

 

 

 

I'm afraid this is not possible, as of now. The 'tooltip' attribute may be disabled. However, it's has a global application(in the <chart> element) and not local i.e. at the <set> element level.

[MartinS]

Rajroop (5/13/2010)

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Hey Martin,

 

I'm afraid this is not possible, as of now. The 'tooltip' attribute may be disabled. However, it's has a global application(in the <chart> element) and not local i.e. at the <set> element level.

Hi

That's really disappointing

Is there any other way to produce a 'floating' column chart?  I have used a stacked column, and set the visibility of the first few series to achieve a 'floating' column.

Thanks

Martin

[Guest Rajroop]

Hey Martin,

 

 

 

I'm afraid to ask, but, would this help?

 

 

 

Looking forward to your post on this.

[MartinS]

Thanks - I wasn't sure at first, but it does look like we can use that to achieve what we need - we have purchased the PowerCharts package as well, so that works out well.

I'll come back and ask a specific question about this chart type if I need more help.

Martin

[Guest Rajroop]

Hey Martin,

 

 

 

Always a pleasure to be of any help. Glad to know that this solution will serve your purpose.

 

 

 

You are always more than welcome to post your queries here.

 

 

 

Till the next time, Happy FusionCharting.

[MartinS]

Hi

One quick question on this - the waterfall chart is no good for one particular chart required as it's a stacked chart that I am trying to display, so I have to continue to use the stacked column and display the tooltext even when the series is not visible. 

As a work around, I tried setting the tooltext attribute for each datapoint to be string.empty, but that gets overridden with the default tooltext - surely if you set the tooltext attribute to anything (even an empty string) it should take that as the text to display?  The only way it does seem to work is to set the text to ' ' (i.e. a single space), but when you hover, you get a small block where the empty space is displaying in the tooltext pop-up.

Can you confirm this is another limitation of the Fusion charts please.

Thanks

Martin

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Hi

 

One quick question on this - the waterfall chart is no good for one particular chart required as it's a stacked chart that I am trying to display, so I have to continue to use the stacked column and display the tooltext even when the series is not visible.

 

As a work around, I tried setting the tooltext attribute for each datapoint to be string.empty, but that gets overridden with the default tooltext - surely if you set the tooltext attribute to anything (even an empty string) it should take that as the text to display? The only way it does seem to work is to set the text to ' ' (i.e. a single space), but when you hover, you get a small block where the empty space is displaying in the tooltext pop-up.

 

Can you confirm this is another limitation of the Fusion charts please.

 

Thanks

 

Martin

 

I got the same problem with the Stacked Chart. Any solution to hide the tooltip yet?

 

[Guest Sumedh]

Hey,

 

Can you please elaborate more on your issue?

 

It would be helpful, if you can provide chart XML also.

 

 

 

[hunghq]

I only modified the data source of the Stacked Column chart sample bundled with FusionCharts 3.2.2. The file is StCol2D1.js

var dataString ='<chart caption="Product Comparison" showLabels="1" showvalues="0" numberPrefix="$" showSum="1" decimals="0" useRoundEdges="1" legendBorderAlpha="0">\n\

<categories>\n\

<category label="Product A" />\n\

<category label="Product B" />\n\

<category label="Product C" />\n\

<category label="Product D" />\n\

<category label="Product E" />\n\

</categories>\n\

<dataset seriesName="2004" color="AFD8F8" showValues="0">\n\

<set value="256.34" />\n\

<set value="201.82" />\n\

<set value="173.76" />\n\

<set value="354.15" />\n\

<set value="381.68" />\n\

</dataset>\n\

<dataset seriesName="2005" color="F6BD0F" showValues="0">\n\

<set value="200" showValues="0"/>\n\

<set value="0" toolText="" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

<set value="0"/>\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

</dataset>\n\

<dataset seriesName="2006" color="8BBA00" showValues="0">\n\

<set value="450.65" />\n\

<set value="448.76" />\n\

<set value="187.18" />\n\

<set value="775.31" />\n\

<set value="926.68" />\n\

</dataset>\n\

</chart>';

 

 

So, if <set value="0" toolText="" alpha="0.1"/>, the empty bar won't be displayed, but the tooltip is still there.

Hey,

 

Can you please elaborate more on your issue?

 

It would be helpful, if you can provide chart XML also.

 

 

 

[Guest Bindhu]

Hi,

 

I am unable to replicate the issue with the latest version of FusionCharts XT(v3.2.2 SR4).

 

I am unable to see any tool tip.

 

Hope this helps!

[hunghq]

My version is FusionCharts XT (v3.2.2) Service Release 3 (Released on 12th March, 2012). Where can I see the release notes of these Service Releases?

 

Can you double check the sample? Of course, the tooltip only shows up when you hover the mouse on it.

 

Regards,

Hung

 

<dataset seriesName="2005" color="F6BD0F" showValues="0">\n\

<set value="200" showValues="0"/>\n\

<set value="0" toolText="" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

<set value="0"/>\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1"/>\n\

</dataset>\n\

Hi,

 

I am unable to replicate the issue with the latest version of FusionCharts XT(v3.2.2 SR4).

 

I am unable to see any tool tip.

 

Hope this helps!

[Guest Bindhu]

Hi,

 

I double checked it with SR4 and I am still unable to replicate the issue.

 

However, with SR3, I am able to replicate the issue.

 

For more details on 'FusionCharts XT Version History', please refer to the link below,

http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/contents/?Introduction/WhatsNew32.html

 

Hope this helps!

[hunghq]

Thank you, bindhu.

 

I have downloaded SR4. There's definitely some changes to the tooltip of Stacked Chart; however, in some cases, the tooltip still shows up.

 

Please try this sample data with the Stacked Chart example, and take a look at my screenshot:

 

 

<dataset seriesName="2005" color="F6BD0F" showValues="0">\n\

<set value="0" tooltext="" alpha="0.1" />\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1" />\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1" />\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1" />\n\

<set value="0" alpha="0.1" />\n\

</dataset>\n\

 

Again, let me rephrase the root cause, for a <set value="0" />, there should be no line to represent it (no tooltip, but the series still should be in the legend box).

The reason why I set the alpha="0.1" instead of "0" is that if all 5 sets in the series has alpha="0", the series name disappears from the legend box automatically. It'd better to have keep the series in the legend box intact no matter what.