ChartLine™ August 2004

Welcome!

In this issue of ChartLine, the information e-newsletter from Visual Mining, we have new updates for NetCharts Designer and NetCharts Server, a great technical tip for using NetCharts Designer to quickly build chart templates for NetCharts and NetCharts Pro, and a couple of press releases showcasing how customers have used NetCharts products to build their business or increase company productivity.

ChartLine is designed to share knowledge for working with Visual Mining's NetCharts products, help you get things done faster, and guide you through new application ideas. We will publish one of these every so often to keep you up to date.

We invite you to tell us what you'd like to see in upcoming issues and we'll try to cover it for you - email chartline@visualmining.com . And if there's something we covered before, but you don't have that issue available, back issues of ChartLine are archived on the website.

Sincerely,
Lezlie Ramsey, Editor,
& The Visual Mining Team

Announcements

Are You Current?

Here are the latest product release versions: NetCharts® Server and NetCharts® Designer v4.5.3 now available! See details in Article 2.

NetCharts® Server v4.5.3
NetCharts® Designer v4.5.3
NetCharts® Pro v4.5
NetCharts® v4.5

Please note that the following products are no longer being offered for sale; however, we will still support them:

NetCharts® EJB - Check out the documentation for Building EJBs with NetCharts® Pro.
ChartWorks® Designer - Check out NetCharts Designer for easy, powerful template creation.

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Forum -

Please note that the Visual Mining Community Forum is available for browsing archived items only - posting has been closed while we get the new Knowledgebase prepared. We'll keep you updated as to when it will be open! In the meantime, if you do need Technical Support, you can file a case online, via email at support@visualmining.com, or by phone 1+301-795-2200 Option 4, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Eastern.

NetCharts® Server and NetCharts® Designer v4.5.3 now available - see what's new!

You - our valued customers and users - give us great feedback and we have incorporated a number of suggestions and enhancement requests in the v4.5.3 releases. A partial list of what's new in this version is below.

Dial Chart Features

Addition of DialSize parameter for dial charts. This can be used to explicitly set the size of the dial area.
Adjustments to Dialchart hand positioning and sector positioning if those hands/sectors are outside the range of the dial's scale.

NetCharts Designer v4.5.3 enhancements

Includes new 1.3.1 Java Virtual Machine.
Added GUI support for DB2 Data Source.
Added process module GUI features accessible from the data functions page.
Increased the number of viewable rows and columns in the data.
Page backgrounds can be specified via the Page attributes in the PGL editor.
Drag and drop a "raw" data retrieval link to any given page.
Users can disable drilldown processing on any added chart.

NetCharts Server v4.5.3 enhancements

PDF reports can now be specified as a Task output and can be automatically mailed to recipients at regular intervals.
Embedded versions of NetCharts Server will access JNDI data sources.
ASP toolkit will now serve PDF reports.
Toolkits will communicate with NetCharts Server via SSL.
CDX variable values can be empty spaces.
Easily add new JARs into the Server application via the Administration Console.

Contact your account executive at sales@visualmining.com for additional information on v4.5.3 enhancements and to get your update today or to request an online demo and see how quickly you can have your interactive graphical reporting solution up and running.

Visual Mining's NetCharts® helps Health First to more effectively report time-sensitive clinical data to physicians

Rockville, Maryland - July 28, 2004 - Visual Mining, Inc., a leading developer of reporting and data visualization solutions, today announced that Health First has selected NetCharts® to generate dynamic interactive charts over their secure physician's portal.

"We are collecting data from multiple systems and, with the use of XML and XSL, rendering clinical data graphs dynamically using NetCharts in a physicians' portal accessed by over 700 physicians," said Dallas Twiford, Developer. "We selected NetCharts primarily for the date/time line object controls built into the graph applets, specifically the combo chart. This was a huge time-saver to deploy time-sensitive data to our physicians in a graphical format. Another factor was the portability of java applets to any server environment."

Technical Tip: Using NetCharts® Designer to build NetCharts® applications

While NetCharts® Designer 4.5 was created primarily to support NetCharts® Server, it can also be used to simplify the creation of chart templates for use with NetCharts® or NetCharts® Pro.

NetCharts Desiger can produce and export RCDL files. RCDL stands for "resolved CDL". RCDL files contain chart templates that have no dependency on NetCharts Server. RCDL files can be used directly by NetCharts and NetCharts Pro.

The following steps demonstrate how to use NetCharts Designer to create and test a NetCharts applet.

Get the tutorial.

empuron selects NetCharts® to graph technical data for electrical energy applications

Rockville, Maryland - August 24, 2004 - Visual Mining, Inc., a leading developer of reporting and data visualization solutions, today announced that empuron Software Systems selected NetCharts to generate interactive graphs over their secure portal for electrical energy providers.

"We decided NetCharts was the right visual reporting software product to integrate into our data collection applications due to it's rich feature set and platform independence that will facilitate the expectations of our customers," said Hubert Medl, CEO of empuron Software Systems. "NetCharts helped us complete our applications more quickly, and deliver more informative and concise ways for our clients to understand the technical data."

Happy charting!

Visual Mining's
News & Tips Letter
AUGUST 2004

IN THIS ISSUE:

Announcements
NetCharts Server and NetCharts Designer v4.5.3 now available - see what's new!
Visual Mining's NetCharts helps Health First to more effectively report time-sensitive clinical data to physicians
Technical Tip: Using NetCharts Designer to build NetCharts applications
empuron selects Visual Mining's NetCharts to graph technical data for electrical energy applications

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