Welcome to Davisor Chart Users' Guide. This interactive guide teaches you how to best deploy and use the Davisor Chart data visualization tool. Besides mere descriptions and documentation, this guide offers plenty of interactive examples, too. These examples let you to try and experience Davisor Chart functions in practice while you read and learn the content of this guide.
This guide contains full documentation of Davisor Chart including Chart extensions. Extensions are not part of the core product and they must be downloaded/purchased separately. Extension documentation and features are marked with light orange background color. Chapters valid only for extensions are marked with asterisk (*) in the left side navigation bar.
Along the pages of this guide, next to every example, there are buttons you may press at any time to invoke the following interactive functions:
A typical example of this functionality would be an image of a pie chart, with launch buttons to corresponding configuration data and interactive demo. If you are currently reading this guide for the first time, go right ahead and try the buttons now.
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Please note carefully that none of the grey buttons require any services from an active local web server, but only a Javascript enabled browser, and a live connection to the Internet. This means that for example if you have just downloaded Davisor Chart to you own local host, unzipped the package and the web archive (a war -file) within, and you are now browsing this guide locally, all the grey example buttons will work immediately, even without the benefit of any active web application container.
In order to eventually publish your own data visualizations with Davisor Chart, you do however need to setup a local web application container. Once you have done that, you have also enabled a class of other kind of examples: the red buttons.
Besides the other buttons, there are also some buttons with red text in this guide. These buttons invoke operations that rely on services provided by a local web application container, running in the same host you are just now reading this text from. In particular, none of the red buttons will work until you or someone else explicitly sets up a local web application container (like Apache Tomcat). Once that is done, you may use the red buttons to test the local server, and maybe investigate in more detail what exactly the red buttons do internally.
If you experience any problems with the interactive buttons, maybe your local host is not connected to the Internet, or maybe your browser does not support Javascript functions. If either case, you may still continue to read this document normally, but without the benefit of the interactive examples. We do however recommend that you always try to make the buttons work because the interactive examples are such a valuable part in learning Davisor Chart.
This guide is divided into the following main chapters which may be read in any order you find interesting:
All the main chapters are further organized to appropriate sub-chapters so that you can later use this guide as reference documentation, too. For more detailed reference information, there are also a number of separate reference documents you will most probably want to browse when you really start working with Davisor Charts. These reference documents are:
If you have any questions for which you do not find answers for from this guide or the reference documents, you may always contact our Technical Support that is always ready to give you assistance. We also always welcome any other feedback, comments, and suggestions you might have about Davisor Chart.
You are also always welcome to visit our home Web site at www.davisor.com for the latest news, updates, products, references, and contact information. Finally, our Sales Department is always ready to help you with any questions concerning our product prices and license agreement details. We'll be looking forward to be contacted by you.