I've been hounding the folks at wpDataTables to crib me through the process of customizing HighCharts visualizations. Now that I've gotten things to a notch point, I thought I'd share much of what I learned along the way. Hopefully it will help other folks to bootstrap their own approach to customization process.
The transition that I needed to make was transliterating the examples I saw in the HighCharts API into a structure that could be parsed in the callback. There was quite a bit of experimentation to find things like assigning colors to a doughnut chart series - that required a "setOptions" declaration at the object level - not the chart level.
I tripped over a dozen or more of those kinds of "small" issues until I started to get a sense of how requests should be structured. And I'm still wrestling with a few things here and there - but the bulk of what I wanted it in place.
So special kudos go to the team at wpDataTables, not only for making a stellar product, but also for "suffering the slings and arrows" of outrageous customers (like me). :)
Thank you very much for the kind words and thank you for sharing all you have learned with other people so they can easily find how to customize HighCharts with wpDataCharts callback. We're happy that you're satisfied with the product and with our service!
wpDataTables jQuery callback (and CSS) customizations for my portfolio
I've been hounding the folks at wpDataTables to crib me through the process of customizing HighCharts visualizations. Now that I've gotten things to a notch point, I thought I'd share much of what I learned along the way. Hopefully it will help other folks to bootstrap their own approach to customization process.
The transition that I needed to make was transliterating the examples I saw in the HighCharts API into a structure that could be parsed in the callback. There was quite a bit of experimentation to find things like assigning colors to a doughnut chart series - that required a "setOptions" declaration at the object level - not the chart level.
I tripped over a dozen or more of those kinds of "small" issues until I started to get a sense of how requests should be structured. And I'm still wrestling with a few things here and there - but the bulk of what I wanted it in place.
So special kudos go to the team at wpDataTables, not only for making a stellar product, but also for "suffering the slings and arrows" of outrageous customers (like me). :)
Hi Houston,
Thank you very much for the kind words and thank you for sharing all you have learned with other people so they can easily find how to customize HighCharts with wpDataCharts callback. We're happy that you're satisfied with the product and with our service!