What you're suggesting isn't supported yet, but we hear you...
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:02 PM, NA <nabeel.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but I knew that :) I wanted to see if there's a way to avoid
> doing this. ... I realize that sounds lazy, but it's really not ;)
>
> I think this is something that the charts should be able to do on
> their own, without my having to modify the underlying data table. They
> should be able to detect that the x axis values are date or datetime
> objects, and ultimately I should be able to suggest something like
> {xTicksEvery:'day'} to get the axis to automatically add in the
> missing days (or hours, or minutes, or whatever).
>
> The problem with adding a date for my missing values is that I now am
> altering the underlying data set. What may have been a sparse table
> is now filled in with nulls. Any logic that was based on the number
> of rows being equal to the number of observations needs to be
> rewritten. Related to this, any aggregations that used *.count now
> need to use a custom aggregation function that ignores null entries.
>
> It's not the end of the world, but I do believe that the charts should
> be able to do this themselves, without my having to add the missing
> date values. It would make things a lot cleaner.
>
> Looks like I'll need to put in an enhancement request.
>
> And thanks for the suggestion, though; I do appreciate the tips you've
> given me and others on here.
>
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