Abyss, I forgot to mention, that I am using e4x. I see ted's mention of that "@" syntax not sure what that is. I'll have play around with it. Do you know where there is a good practical (cheat sheet) approach (as opposed to a comp sci approach) to using E4X? I've looked at amfphp but I dont understand any of the examples. Right now, I think xml via e4x is kind of cool. This is an internal app on 100Mb connections, and I'm creating all the xml before hand so performance is not bad. thanks for your time! brad -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abyss Knight Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:11 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Need IF Logic for Chart Data Provider
One option would be to change the chart's viewable area, as in modify the start of the axes to only show the data you want to show. This would obviously put a strain on the client if there was far too much data loaded into an ArrayCollection though. The other option is to query the XML using e4x and use the result as the data provider: http://www.onflex. <http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/12/xmle4x-vs-amf.php> org/ted/2006/12/xmle4x-vs-amf.php Hope that helps, -- William --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, "Brad Bueche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem (in short): > I need to be able to hook up my charts to dataproviders where > <month_name> equals "January". And only pull that. I dont need it to > read every month in the hierarchy. Or month_name is January and day_name > is '14'. In order to do this I need to do IF logic with the dataprovider > it seems to me. My other post occurred because in leiu of being able > to do "IF month_name='January'. I have just gone in and changed the > xml so that instead of <month> </month> [...] it now says <january> > </january><february></february> etc. That sort of defeats the data > description aspect of XML (it seems to me). > > > The background (if you are interested): > This problem has to do with me NOT wanting to write 100+ reports to > generate 100+ separate xml files to access. > > I need to track the metrics of several internal groups over the year via > charting. I want to drill down into individual months (by day) and -- > maybe, days by hour. I also want to track into the sub groups per > month and per day-in-month for each of these groups as well. > > The data is network event traffic and doing the queries live will just > not work. Users wont use the slicing and dicing visualization affords if > they have to wait every time the click an item. > > So, I know I can save myself a lot of reports by putting all the data > into about 10 - 20 reports or so by using the XML as its supposed to be > used (i.e. describing the data). I need to be able to hook the data > provider to only a sub-node in the xml hierarchy and not have it read > everything at that level. I need it to read only has long as > month_name=January or month_name=January AND day_name='15'. >
