Business Graphics from Table and Series UI Element

Question

Hallo experts,
i try to provide a business graph, but have some problems with functionality of Series UI Element  as i suppose.
At design Time i don't know how many series i have, it's depend on data wich i get from table. So as i found for this i can use Series UI Element instead of SimpleSeries.
So i in Layout i have following structure:
Categorie
Series(List)->SeriesPoint->Numeric Value
In Context:
MainNode with following children:
                 Date attribute (String)
                 SeriesNode with following children:
                                    Name(String)
                                    PoinNode with attribute:
                                         (Integer) Summe
I set singelton of PointNode and SeriesNode to false;
Date Attribute is mapped to Catergorie
(Integer)Summe to Point Value
SeriesNode to to Series(List)
Here is part of code how i generate elements of some Node:
for(int m=0;m<allCodelineNames.size();m++){
String name=(String)allCodelineNames.get(m)
IPublicChangeList.ISeriesElement elem=
(IPublicChangeList.ISeriesElement)
wdThis.wdGetChangeListController().wdGetContext().nodeSeries().createSeriesElement();
IPublicChangeList.ISeriesPointElement elem2=
(IPublicChangeList.ISeriesPointElement)
wdThis.wdGetChangeListController().wdGetContext().nodeSeriesPoint().createSeriesPointElement();
LinkedHashMap result=(LinkedHashMap)codelineMap.get(name);
elem.setCodelineName(name);
int changeLists=Integer.parseInt((String)result.get(date));
elem2.setChangelistSum(changeLists);
wdThis.wdGetChangeListController().wdGetContext().nodeSeriesPoint().addElement(elem2);
wdThis.wdGetChangeListController().wdGetContext().nodeSeries().addElement(elem);
The problem is so that i still don't see different series i see only the first one.
Also it's not clear how the mainNode knew which nodeSeries elemnts it had
i also tried to implement this way;
statElem.node().getChildNode("Series",i).addElement(elem);
where statElem is element of mainNode, but it makes no difference
Have you have any ideas, could it be that i make something generell wrong with this UI Element?
Thank you in advance!!
Best Regards,
Daria
Edited by: Daria Sosunova on May 30, 2008 8:56 AM

Answer 1

Hi Daria
Good news so far: layout structure is correct
>
Daria Sosunova wrote:
>  So i in Layout i have following structure:
> Categorie
> Series(List)->SeriesPoint->Numeric Value
However the context structure should be a little bit different (if I understand your structure correctly)
>
Daria Sosunova wrote:
> In Context:
> MainNode with following children:
> Date attribute (String)
> SeriesNode with following children:
> Name(String)
> PoinNode with attribute:
> (Integer) Summe
This is how it should be:
<ul>
<li>MainNode (for categories, singleton=true)</li>
  <ul><li>Date attr (String)</li></ul>
<li>SeriesNode (for series, singleton=true)</li>
  <ul>
  <li>Name attr (String)</li>
  <li>PointNode(for points, singleton=false)</li>
  <ul><li>Summe attr (Integer)</li></ul>
  </ul>
</ul>
Mapping should be done like this:
<ul>
<li>Date attr to Category->Description</li>
<li>SeriesNode to BusinessGraphic->seriesSource</li>
<li>PointNode to SeriesList->PointSource</li>
<li>PointNode to SeriesPoint->ValueSource</li>
<li>Summe attr to Values->Value</li>
</ul>
That's it for design time. As for code it should generate series like this:
        ISeriesNode nodeSeries = wdContext.nodeSeries();
     for(int j =0; j<seriesAmount; j++){
          ISeriesElement seriesElement = nodeSeries.createSeriesElement();
          nodeSeries.addElement(seriesElement);
          seriesElement.setName("Test "+j);
          IPoint2Node nodePoint2 = seriesElement.nodePoint2();
          for(int k=0; k<pointsAmount; k++){
               IPoint2Element point2Element = nodePoint2.createPoint2Element();
               nodePoint2.addElement(point2Element);
               if(k==4 && j==0)continue; // skip fifth element
               point2Element.setValue(""+(1+j*10 + k));
Set seriesAmount=allCodelineNames.size() and pointsAmount=amountOfCategories to get what you want.
I know that it's not very easy to understand but it works
Regards
Ivan Dulko