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Custom Graphs In "Contact" Tab?
May 10, 2013, 12:38:15 pm
Hi All,

I've been asked to create a new tab for "individuals" that displays their employer membership information in a visual breakdown, ie: total membership contributions by year,  all time contributions total, etc.

I've gotten as far as creating the tab and writing the code to get me the numbers I need, but I am at a loss as to leveraging civicrm's built in visualization features. I tried using google charts API, but there are JS layers involved in that page that I was not able to overcome in order to get things working.

Has anyone here had any experience with this kind of thing?

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Re: Custom Graphs In "Contact" Tab?
May 10, 2013, 05:33:10 pm
Might want to check CRM_Contribute_Form_ContributionCharts class for an example of using the OpenFlashCharts library used elsewhere in Civi. Note that there has been talk about switching to a new charts library at some point - but not on the short term road-map.

Other folks might have suggestions for a simpler / better way of course.
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Re: Custom Graphs In "Contact" Tab?
May 12, 2013, 04:22:12 am
You can also try some of Drupal's charting modules. Or Google provides a way (last I checked) to get a chart back from a simple URL.

Actually it looks like it's deprecated yet still works: https://developers.google.com/chart/image/

A wacky option would also be to load an iframe in the tab and then a fresh page, then no JS conflicts should be there.
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