Work with Chart

Setting Chart configuration

You can change configuration of Chart on the fly with the help of the setConfig method. It takes as a parameter an object with updated chart configuration.

var config = {
    type: "radar",
    scales: {
        radial:{
            value: "month",
            maxTicks: 7
        }
    },
    series: [
        {
            id: "A",
            value: "company A",
            fill: "#000000",
            alpha: 0.3,
            color: "#000000"
        },
        {
            id: "B",
            value: "company B",
            fill: "#FFFF33",
            alpha: 0.3,
            color: "#FFFF33"
        }
    ]
}
 
chart.setConfig(config);

Adding items into Chart

The API of Data Collection allows you to perform operations with Chart data items. For example, you can add more items (points) into your Chart using the add() method, like this:

var config = {
    type:"line",
    scales: {
        "bottom" : {
            text: "text",
            showText: false
        },
        "left" : {
            maxTicks: 10,
            max: 100,
            min: 0
        }
    },
    series: [
        {
            value: "value",
            color: "#5E83BA",
            strokeWidth: 2
        }
    ]
};
 
var chart = new dhx.Chart("chart", config);
chart.data.parse([
    {
        value: Math.random() * 100,
        text: "u" + Date.now() + 1
    },
    {
        value: Math.random() * 100,
        text: "u" + Date.now() + 2
    },
    {
        value: Math.random() * 100,
        text: "u" + Date.now() + 3
    }
]);
function add() {
    chart.data.add({
        value: Math.random() * 100,
        text: "u" + Date.now()
    });
};

The method takes as a parameter an object with two properties:

value - the value of an item
text - the text of an item on the X-axis

A new data item is added relative to the X-axis. In case of adding many items, you need to increase the value of each new data item position to add it corrrectly.