Hello folks - with sincerest of apologies, I'm a ground zero noob with Fabrik (downloaded it yesterday), trying to build what in concept at least should be a very simple application. Users fill in data on a form, and I generate a chart to compare their data with the aggregated data of all other users.
I've nutted out the data input and storage side of my equation, and am turning my attention to analysis and charting.
No matter what I try, I seem to be unable to make the chart visualisation do anything at all useful. The Google API is the only chart option I've been able to make produce anything at all graphical (all others seems only to generate error messages), but the Google option seems to lack even the most fundamental pieces of a charting puzzle.
I can define the data source(s) to plot on the Y axis of the chart, but where do I define what to plot on the X axis? How do I sort or filter the records to plot? How do I define if I want to plot the raw data, or plot a count of how many records match a datapoint, or anything else?
I enter formatting and axis label information under the "Options" tab, but the rendered graph seems to ignore most of what I have set, and produces a seemingly random set of alternatives.
Clearly there are some fundamental concepts that are escaping me, and regrettably the only information I've been able to find in the wiki states what I had assumed in the first place, but which doesn't seem to work.
Is there a secondary source of information I can immerse myself in to try to grasp the concepts that are clearly beyond my comprehension at this point?
Thanks in anticipation
I've nutted out the data input and storage side of my equation, and am turning my attention to analysis and charting.
No matter what I try, I seem to be unable to make the chart visualisation do anything at all useful. The Google API is the only chart option I've been able to make produce anything at all graphical (all others seems only to generate error messages), but the Google option seems to lack even the most fundamental pieces of a charting puzzle.
I can define the data source(s) to plot on the Y axis of the chart, but where do I define what to plot on the X axis? How do I sort or filter the records to plot? How do I define if I want to plot the raw data, or plot a count of how many records match a datapoint, or anything else?
I enter formatting and axis label information under the "Options" tab, but the rendered graph seems to ignore most of what I have set, and produces a seemingly random set of alternatives.
Clearly there are some fundamental concepts that are escaping me, and regrettably the only information I've been able to find in the wiki states what I had assumed in the first place, but which doesn't seem to work.
Is there a secondary source of information I can immerse myself in to try to grasp the concepts that are clearly beyond my comprehension at this point?
Thanks in anticipation