FusionCharts for Dreamweaver Documentation

FusionCharts for Dreamweaver helps Web programmers to create animated Flash charts from an easy to use Dreamweaver interface. FusionCharts for Dreamweaver comes with 36 Web ready chart types including line, area, bar, column, doughnut, combination, scroll charts and more.

All the charts are animated & interactive, which makes it a delightful experience for the end user. The interactivity options include tooltips, rotation, switching from 3D to 2D and then back again, and even slicing the wedges in a pie chart.

Let's see how easy it is to create a chart in FusionCharts for Dreamweaver. You would first need to complete the basic setup, as discussed in the installation section.

To insert a chart, follow these simple steps:

1. Open the page where you want to insert your chart. The page must be part of a site defined in Dreamweaver.

2. Travel to the location in the page where you want to insert the page, and open up the interface. To learn more about the interface visit the interface section.

   

   A sample page in a dreamweaver site

3. The interface contains a default set of data. So, we do not need to worry about providing data. The default data for the chart is,

   

   The default data

4. Just press the 'OK' button and the code for the chart will be embedded within the page. In the design view, it looks like,

   

   The embedded chart in design view

   And in the code view, it looks like,

   

   The embedded chart in code view

5. The actual chart within the web page looks as follows: