cfchart question

Show your query result data dump (samples) and your cfchart statements that you have so far.

Thanks for the reply Zvonko - here is what the data looks like
05/04/2009      Ed      1754.25
05/04/2009      James      2019.00
05/04/2009      Jeanette       871.75
12/04/2009      Ed                 1212.50
12/04/2009      James      2263.25
12/04/2009      Jeanette      924.50
19/04/2009      Ed      1654.25
19/04/2009      James      2259.00
19/04/2009      Jeanette      919.75

and here is the cfchart code

<cfchart format = "flash" chartHeight = "200" chartWidth = "800" showXGridlines = "yes" showYGridlines = "yes"
   xAxisTitle = "Week Ended" yAxisTitle = "Hours">
<cfchartseries
  type="line"
  query="QoQWeeklyHours"
  itemColumn="Executive"
  valueColumn="TotQty"
  seriesLabel="Executive">
</cfchartseries>
</cfchart>

What I want is separate lines on the graph for each executive with the week ended dates along the bottom, and the number of hours on the Y axis.  With the code above I get several graphs showing meaningless data.  I also tried using labelFormat="date" but that either crashes the charting engine or goes off into the wide blue forever.  I really don't know what I am doing, so I really need the help.

Thanks Zvonko - sorry for the delay in replying.  A couple of issues.  
1.  The dates, although the query is sorted by WEnded appear in random order in the graph
2.  How do I tell which graph line refers to which Executive so I can have a legend.

OK - I have figured out the legend, so that is working, but the dates are still random.

Any ideas on the sorting problem?

Cannot sort dates into correct order despite query sorted on date

Did you ever find a solution to the dates appearing in random order?  I am having the same problem..

I do not see what you mean by "random order".
Can you dump your Query and tell me what rows are not in sequence in that chart?

You can open a new question and put here the reference to it.

No, I still have the problem.  Here is the code, and I am attaching a screenshot of the graph.

<CFQUERY NAME="QoQExecutives" DBTYPE="Query">
  SELECT Executive FROM WklyHoursQuery
  GROUP BY Executive
  ORDER BY Executive
</CFQUERY>

<cfchart format = "flash" chartHeight = "600" chartWidth = "800" showXGridlines = "yes" showYGridlines = "yes" showLegend="yes"
   xAxisTitle = "Week Ended" yAxisTitle = "Hours">
  <cfloop query="QoQExecutives" >
    <CFQUERY NAME="QoQ_Qty" DBTYPE="Query">
      SELECT WEnded, Executive, Sum(Qty) AS TotQty FROM WklyHoursQuery
      GROUP BY WEnded, Executive
      HAVING Executive='#QoQExecutives.Executive#'      
      ORDER BY WEnded, Executive
    </CFQUERY>    
   <cfchartseries query="QoQ_Qty"
      type="line" itemColumn="WEnded" valueColumn="TotQty"
      seriesLabel="#QoQExecutives.Executive#">
   </cfchartseries>
  </cfloop>
</cfchart>
Graph.jpg

You closed this question with a grading B and want now additional support???
Open a new question and perhaps somebody will look into it ;-)

It was driving me crazy.   I found this parameter on cfchart...

                   sortXAxis="Yes"

That should put the x axis in order.

To format the date correctly, I was using the dateFormat() function but I was using cfchartitem as in...

 <cfchartdata item="#dateFormat(getValues.theDate,'yyyy/mm')#" value="#theValue#">


Since you are not using cfchartItem, you can probably format the date using your database's date functions such as convert( ) if SQL Server or TO_CHAR() if oracle.   So the query will return a date well formatted such as mm/dd/yyyy.

Zonko, jd was just answering my question, I was seeking a solution.  But since I found it, I thought it best to post here for future seekers.

No problem ;-)

sortXAxis has fixed the sorting problem - thanks gdemaria!