Adding charts and maps to a WIX website

Type tutorial

Intro & Prerequisites This tutorial is aimed to walk you through some easy steps to add charts and maps to your WIX.com website. We assume that you already have fundamentals for amCharts products and are able to build a chart or map, either by coding it directly or using one of our online editing tools. […]

Transferring demos from amcharts.com, CodePen or jsFiddle into WordPress

Type tutorial

Most of the amCharts demos you find will be shown on either amcharts.com demo section, CodePen or jsFiddle websites. This tutorial focuses on how to easily transfer them into your WordPress website. Prerequisites This tutorial relies on amCharts WordPress plugin. If you haven’t done so already, we strongly advise you to check this introductory tutorial, […]

Using amCharts WordPress plugin

Type tutorial

WordPress being the single most used web publishing platform, is perfect for when you want your website up and running in minutes. However, when it comes to dynamic content, such as JavaScript, you’ll find that there’s practically no options in the plain vanilla WP install. This is precisely the reason why we went ahead and […]

Using object-based chart setup

Type tutorial

As you may know each amCharts chart can be created using two approaches: Object-based; JSON-based. For JSON-based setup refer to these introductory articles: Your first chart with amCharts Creating charts using JSON This article focuses on building the charts using object based setup. Object-based approach, while not as straightforward as JSON, has its advantages, like […]

Exporting charts and maps: PDF with multiple charts and related info

Type tutorial

Intro If you are looking on how to automatically generate PDF reports, you should probably explore some server-side options, like PhantomJS. We have a handy tutorial ready about the latter here. However, sometimes, you just need to export a chart or two, along with some additional info on-demand, triggered by the user. In those cases […]

Adding event listeners within chart config

Type tutorial

If you are creating chart using AmCharts.makeChart(divId, config) method, instead of using chart.addListener method, a much better approach would be adding listeners directly to chart config. This is done using listeners property of a AmChart or ChartScrollbar or ChartCursor (any object which has events). listeners property accepts array of objects each of them must have […]

Use amCharts to visualize Google Analytics data

Type tutorial

Intro Google exposes data from its Analytics service using a number of various APIs. CORE REPORTING API (Create custom reports by querying for dimensions and metrics) MULTI-CHANNEL FUNNELS REPORTING API (Access attribution and conversion path data for your users) REAL TIME REPORTING API (Access activity occurring on your property right now) EMBED API (Embed dashboards […]

Adding charts and maps to a Weebly website

Type tutorial

This short step-by-step tutorial will show how you can easily add charts and maps to your Weebly website. Step 1: add an EMBED CODE block Step 2: Edit the block Click on the block you just added to edit it. Step 3: Creating the chart code If you already have your chart created somewhere, you’re […]

Automate report generation using PhantomJS

Type tutorial

Intro You are already using amCharts libraries to visualize your data to your users on your website, intranet, CMS, even mobile applications. But what about the situations when you want to generate the reports to your users. Automatically. On server-side. Without any human interaction whatsoever? That’s where server-side browsers come in. Introducing PhantomJS – the […]