Configuring Data for your Dynamic Charts

The developer version of FusionCharts for DW allows you to use a database as a content source for your dynamic charts.

There are a few things you have to do before you get started, in order to use FusionCharts with dynamic data:

1. Choose an appropriate document type (the document types supported by FusionCharts for DW are ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and JSP) for the page containing the chart.
2. Set up the site’s testing server using a server model compatible with the selected document type.
3. Configure a database connection.

The database data can be inserted in your chart by using one of the two alternative methods:

• Using previously-defined recordsets
• Using database tables

The recordset-method implies that you have already created the recordsets which store the data retrieved from the database as the result of a database query.

In the table-method, the SQL queries are generated automatically based on a few options selected from the interface.