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Did you try out the actual drill down and drill up functionality? 
Was the documentation sufficient?
Do you have any suggestions on improving this plug-in?

Of course I've tried the drill down, its cool!
The documentation is enough.
Suggestion: When you drill down instead of making an ajax call allow to instantiate the plugin with all the data.

{
"COLUMNS":["X_BAR_LABEL","X_BAR_VALUE","X_BAR_COLOR", "TOOL_TIP_TITLE"],
"DATA":[
    ["Tom",1238,"#AA0000","Tom ^ ", {
            "COLUMNS":["X_BAR_LABEL","X_BAR_VALUE","X_BAR_COLOR", "TOOL_TIP_TITLE"],
            "DATA":[
                ["Jan",1238,"#AA0000","Jan ^ "],
                ["Feb",1069,"#AA0000","Feb ^ "],
                ["Mar",1214,"#AA0000","Mar ^ "],
                ["Apr",1262,"#AA0000","Apr ^ "],
                ["May",1975,"#AA0000","May ^ "],
                ["Jun",1076,"#AA0000","Jun ^ "]
                  ]
            }]},
    ["Dick",1069,"#AA0000","Dick ^ "],
    ["Harry",1214,"#AA0000","Harry ^ "],
    ["Mary",1262,"#AA0000","Mary ^ "],
    ["Louise",1975,"#AA0000","Louise ^ "],
    ["Sue",1076,"#AA0000","Sue ^ "]
]
}

See what I mean, all the data is there from the begining.
Suggestion #2: make the pluggin self contained, init it and nothing else no:
In the Drill down example there a lot of code outside the plugin and it confuses me, I don't know if all the code is necessary for the plugin to work or with

$("#chart_div").ddBarChart({ .......
will be enough

 If I have more ideas I'll will post them here :)
HTH

Very valid point.  I originally left those functions up to the developer for maximum flexibility, but in the end it just makes things more complex.  I shouldn't make the system only do preloaded drills since some people, myself included, have enough data to overwhelm the browser, but what I can do is give the developer a choice of predrilled data, a JSON link to more data or just a link to something else.  Of course I will have to gain far more jQuery plug-in knowledge to pull this off.  For example, I will have to figure out how to store historical data in an array on the jQuery object, so I can reference it later as the object is manipulated.  this will be a good deal harder, but will make the plug-in a lot cleaner.

Thanks, I will let you know when I get it figured out.

OK, so I tirelessly altered the code to work completely from the ddBarChart call.  It will now automatically assemble drillup breadcrumbs and will accept two new columns of data.  DRILL_DATA is the column used for predefined drilldown data like you asked for, and DRILL_LINK is a link to the JSON data that is loaded via AJAX automatically.  I also added some callbacks for displaying any custom "Loading" messages.  It was a complicated rewrite for sure, but it is much cleaner now.  At some point I'm going to have to get in there and standardize the naming of my CSS classes.  I'm also going to have to overhaul the ColdFusion code to work using this method, however, I did code the changes to work with the old way of doing things, so all the old ColdFusion code works without changing it.

Final version released.  jQuery Plugin Page

Drill down charts are simply the best that too without flash wow gr8... I was trying to work almost on same stuff for one of my assignment but in my case i need to do this using only DIV/CSS/JQuery.. that means the drill down should come one by one in DIV format..

For eg: If I click on first level bar chart (DIV based) it should open me second level bar chart (DIV based) and after that third level bar chart (DIV based)...


For easy understanding:  On click on first DIV it should open me second DIV then on click of second DIV it should open third DIV.... but the animation effects should come in same way as it is coming now in your "drill down charts" For Eg: DIV should get open from inside bar chart and while closing it should go back from where it gets opened...

If i plan to use your "Data Grid chart" then for me it would be very difficult to get dynamic values since i need to use .aspx side by side for this...

I hope u got my idea .... Can you help me on this or do you have any reference site for this that works mostly on DIV based using less java-script code.

Regards,
Vivek

Drill down charts are simply the best that too without flash wow gr8... I was trying to work almost on same stuff for one of my assignment but in my case i need to do this using only DIV/CSS/JQuery.. that means the drill down should come one by one in DIV format..

For eg: If I click on first level bar chart (DIV based) it should open me second level bar chart (DIV based) and after that third level bar chart (DIV based)...


For easy understanding:  On click on first DIV it should open me second DIV then on click of second DIV it should open third DIV.... but the animation effects should come in same way as it is coming now in your "drill down charts" For Eg: DIV should get open from inside bar chart and while closing it should go back from where it gets opened...

If i plan to use your "Data Grid chart" then for me it would be very difficult to get dynamic values since i need to use .aspx side by side for this...

I hope u got my idea .... Can you help me on this or do you have any reference site for this that works mostly on DIV based using less java-script code.

Regards,
Vivek

I don't quite follow what you are saying.  My system does nothing but DIVS, CSS, and jQuery.  Also you can load all the data static or dynamically.  It doesn't really care how you do it.  I have a JSON structure outlined for use with this system just like many other systems out there.  You can return JSON formatting using ASP.net, PHP, Coldfusion or anything else.  It's just text.  My plugin doesn't care if your data page ends in .aspx.  It only cares if the data is in the specified format.

Hi Kierasher,

hi,
Would you please tell me how to link the Sql data to this.

Hi guies,

@kierasher  very nice chart option and I was able to use it on your site. After I download it did not work on my local pc. Any idea?