Welcome to the 2014 Summer Edition of the Chartline Newsletter!

Summer has arrived in the US in full force and we find everyone caught up with World Cup fever! This is the perfect time to evaluate if you have enough insight into your data. Are you tracking the metrics you need to understand? Is there a dashboard or visualization project you’ve put off? This is the time to stay cool with information and visualizations (we can’t help it, we like dashboards!).

We’re always happy to hear from you. Just let us know how we can help you get the most out of the NetCharts solutions. We value your business and hope to hear from you soon!

– The Visual Mining Team

In this issue:

1. Chart Spotlight

Did you know that it’s possible to show a large dynamic text value in place of a chart in an NCPD KPI?

For example:

Using NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD), this can easily be done by configuring a KPI to disable and remove the chart portions of the visualization as shown in the image above.

See our blog post where we guide you through each step of how to build a Text KPI in NCPD.

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2. Developers Corner

You may have a requirement where you need to show the individual values of each segment in a stacked bar instead of the totals.

The CDL parameter StackLabel offers control over the display of the segment bar values and the value in the active label hover popups for stacked bar charts. Options allow for either the aggregate value of the stack or the individual stack segment value to be presented in the label.

See our blog post where we guide you through each step of how to add the StackLabel parameter to your chart templates in NetCharts Designer, NetCharts Pro and NetCharts Performance Dashboards.

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3. Did You Know?

Back in 1996, Visual Mining’s original name was “NetFactory” and in that same year released the first version of NetCharts 1.0.

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4. Product Updates

Visual Mining has released two updates related to recent browsers and the location of active label hover popups. The Knowledge Base solutions 512 and 513 includes patches and instructions which are available via our Customer Support Portal for users with a current License Support & Maintenance agreement.

Contact our technical support team for more information, to verify the status of your License Support and Maintenance agreement or to ask how you can obtain a License Support and Maintenance agreement. We always recommend that users with valid License Support and Maintenance agreements log into the Customer Support Portal and review the available solutions for any questions you may have.

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5. Our Products

If you are using an older version of our products we invite you to explore the product sections below to read about all the new features waiting for users with current License Support and Maintenance Agreements. We recommend upgrading to our most current version to take advantage of all the new features.

Remember that you are welcome to download your own free fully functional evaluation copy of any of our products below. Simply click the green Download Now button located on the product pages.

• NetCharts Performance Dashboards 2.5 (NCPD) is a web-based business intelligence and performance dashboard solution that allows you to easily transform your data into actionable information with no programming or coding required.

• NetCharts Server 7.0 is an enterprise-ready hosting platform that helps development professionals deliver a comprehensive, effective, and intuitive visual presentation layer designed using NetCharts Designer, whether standalone or integrated with other application servers.

• NetCharts Designer 7.0 is a comprehensive development and design studio for creating and implementing reports, dashboards, charts, and graphs that can be used in web-based applications such as those hosted in NetCharts Server.

• NetCharts Pro 7.1 provides a comprehensive chart library to create and deploy interactive charting within Java based applications, web-browsers, and internet-enabled devices.

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