You may have the requirement to display the labels in the chart in a certain language. This is actually possible to do. Here’s a quick tip with a couple simple steps of how to display the text in another language.

One great feature that isn’t very obvious is the capability of using translucent colors. Using transparent colors in certain ways can easily improve the styling of your chart. You could use this feature on not only the colors of the bars, pie slices or lines, but also on fonts, fill colors and much more.

This month we will take a closer look at how the “Labor Market in Balance” XY chart was put together.

Sometimes we get asked for the Java code to create a simple chart. Once you’ve done it a few times, you forget it can be useful to have this code the first time. So here’s a step-through for building a basic chart that can be included in a servlet, for instance, and returned to a JSP.

You may have an older DialChart template that uses a premade background image that looks something similar to the image below. This old workaround is now unnecessary because the built in border is currently a default feature in DialCharts.

In this article, I’ll go over the steps of how to update a PieChart and a ComboChart. The quickest way to update an older chart template into the new default styling and look of version 7.0 is to use our NetCharts Designer tool.

Taco Bell has a great commercial running, promoting the new “burrito bowl.” The chef/actress says something to the tune of, “If Taco Bell wants to show people how they are changing things, they really need to show people.” And that’s the purpose of this post — showing you how Visual Mining is changing things.

Many NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD) users have downloaded NCPD v2.5 to take advantage of its new features. Among them is intelligent caching. NCPD now has the ability to store and re-use database queries to improve dashboard performance for viewers, similar to the way that a website’s content is cached by your browser the first time you visit it.