The Google Chart Tools team has pushed a new release candidate: December 19, 2013

[Mitchell Foley]

We have pushed a new release candidate (RC).

This RC introduces some small features and bug fixes.

Candidate release date: December 19, 2013

Anticipated production release date: January 22, 2013

New features and bug fixes:

• Bug fixes and optimizations

In previous RC:

• Added Sankey and Calendar visualizations (documentation forthcoming)

• Corecharts and geochart can be exported as a PNG image

• Helps users print their charts by exporting them as a "data:" url.

• Crosshairs for data points (Scatter, Line, Combo Chart types)

• Column/BarChart Annotation Improvements

• addOneTimeListener (automatically removes itself after first usage)
  

• Annotation boxStyle option, for stroke color and size, rounded corners, and gradients.

• String to Number conversion in DataTable

• String will now be explicitly converted to Number when the column is specified as numeric. Additionally, setCell() on a cell that should be numeric will convert the String to Number.

• Numerous bug fixes

• Timeline

• Display bug when bar was too small for even the ellipsis

• "showBarLabels" option

• added enableInteractivity support

• fix "granularity" bug that caused crashes with particular data sets

• Some issues when dygraphs changed under us

• brush.gradient went @private breaking Tooltips

• Category Focus Tooltip positioning closer to data

• Hovering over data with duplicate values

Documentation for these features is forthcoming.

If your system uses the Visualization API for commercial and / or important production purposes we recommend you test the RC and use the opportunity to provide feedback to us prior to the production release.

If there are any issues, these can be communicated back to our team by replying to this message.

Enjoy,

The Google Chart Tools team

[Romain Vialard]

Great! Can we have an example of the Calendar visualization ?

[Jon Orwant]

Hi Romain,

I'll be writing documentation for the calendar visualization soon.  I do this by experimenting with the same bleeding-edge release candidate that the public is seeing right now, which is why it's not yet ready.  Early January, I think.

Jon

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Romain Vialard <romain....@gmail.com> wrote:

Great! Can we have an example of the Calendar visualization ?

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[Romain Vialard]

Thanks Jon.

In the meantime, would it be possible to have at least a screenshot of this Calendar visualization ? :)

(I want to see if it would be wise to wait for this new visualization for a project)

[Jon Orwant]

Hi Romain,

I've attached a screenshot.

Jon

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[Romain Vialard]

Thank you Jon!

[domini...@googlemail.com]

Hi guys. Are you accepting feedback/ bug reports for the new Calendar Chart Beta? It seems to be skewing all data points one month ahead. The code contains the correct month numeral but the calendar displays it incorrectly. Here's an example:

http://dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/2014/graph/test4c.php

[Jon Orwant]

Hi Dominic,

The months are zero-based (January = 0, February = 1, etc.) which probably explains what you're seeing.

Jon

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:11 PM, <domini...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi guys. Are you accepting feedback/ bug reports for the new Calendar Chart Beta? It seems to be skewing all data points one month ahead. The code contains the correct month numeral but the calendar displays it incorrectly. Here's an example:

http://dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/2014/graph/test4c.php

[domini...@googlemail.com]

Ah, great - thanks Jon! Not sure how intuitive that is, but fantastic product otherwise - well done.

[asgallant]

To clarify: the zero-indexed month thing is not a feature of the Visualization API, it is how javascript handles dates.

[domini...@googlemail.com]

I see - thanks. I wonder what percentage of your potential audience for this product knows that though? I can't see any clues in the documentation. Most users will have their dates stored in conventional format and will need to decrement the month for use in this application somehow. If this is aimed purely at developers then fine, but others might struggle needlessly I suggest.

One additional feature I would love to see in Calendar Chart is the ability to customise the numerical scale somehow, so that freakishly high values don't automatically turn the vast majority of lower values uniformly white.

[RR RRR]

Hi there,


how can the two  line into google script language :

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">  

or how connect these html statements into googles script so, that i can use google vizualisation application  in google script?

[Romain Vialard]

The Visualization API can't be used (yet) in Google Apps Script for now on (due to caja sanitization in the HTML Service).

You can use the Charts Service in Apps Script but it let us use only a small subset of the viz API.

[RR RRR]

What a pitty.  Ok.

I tried to insert the code from the Google Code Playground  into the html  field of    a Google sites Webpage. . Does it works?  It seems not.

This was the answer from there:

HTML-Inhalt wird geändert.

WARNUNG: Ihr HTML-Code enthält unzulässige Tags. Diese wurden aus Ihren Änderungen entfernt.

Regards RR RRR.

[Romain Vialard]

No it doesn't work. The HTML field of a Google Sites page has more restrictions than the HTML Service in Apps Script.
If you want to use the viz API in Sites, you must build a Google Gadget (like those you see when you click on the menu Insert > "More gadgets" in Sites)

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[asgallant]

If I had a nickle for every time someone asked a question whose answer turned out to involve the zero-based indexing of months in javascript, I would have several hundred dollars in nickles.

[Chendan Yan]

Hi, is there a way to print png of the Sankey diagram created in Google chart?

[Daniel LaLiberte]

Sorry, we don't yet support creating an image for anything other than the corecharts.

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