Flex 3: Building charting and dashboard applications (2 days)
This course provides developers with the knowledge they need to use Flex 3 charts to create highly interactive dashboards for data visualization. To gain the most from this class, you should have:
- Attended or have equivalent knowledge of the topics covered in the Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications course
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- Introducing Flex 3 charts
- Introducing Flex 3 charts
- Loading external data for charts and dashboard applications
- Understanding the elements of a chart tag
- Understanding and using the column & bar charts
- Understanding and using the line & area charts
- Understanding and using the pie chart
- Understanding and using the plot chart
- Understanding and using the bubble chart
- Using the Candlestick & HighLowOpenClose charts
- Formatting charts
- Understanding the axis controls
- Using the CategoryAxis
- Using Chart DataTips
- Formatting chart types
- Working with legend controls
- Applying the Concepts
- Creating multi-series and ActionScript charts
- Understanding multiple data series
- Adding multiple series of data
- Using multiple chart axes
- Mixing chart series types
- Mixing multiple series types
- Creating charts with ActionScript
- Understanding advanced charting techniques
- Animating charts and chart series
- Handling user interaction
- Dynamically controlling chart series
- Changing dataProvider fields
- Dynamically controlling the series
- Using custom graphical renderers
- Styling charts
- Styling charts
- Applying CSS to chart components
- Styling shart series
- Styling chart grid lines