Let’s chart!
Charting is in!
Virtually since our first public release we have constantly heard users complaining about not being able to plot charts and graphs on EditGrid. This has turned a few users away.
We do recognise this is a very important feature — indeed, many spreadsheet users make spreadsheets solely for plotting a chart. Unlike our competitors we opt not to release this early, for good reason: without a solid infrastructure for the basic functionalities, such as real-time update, the “power features” as we call them would only make things worse.
So here we present EditGrid’s charting functionalities — the most complete in the market, we believe, with more than 30 types of charts for you to choose. We understand that it is not perfect, yet — there are still a few bugs in our mind when we release it — but we believe that it is complete enough for most users to create a decent chart.
And our users are already starting to take advantage of this new feature. Take a look at the following chart by our user graphoilogy from the GraphOilogy blog:
The best thing among all is that EditGrid’s charts incorporate EditGrid’s collaboration features that make EditGrid unique. Changes are RTU’d, so your colleague’s edit on the source data would be automatically reflected in the chart on your screen. Each chart comes with its unique permalink, so you may post a chart separately on your blog.
As a side note: let’s congratulate all contributors to the German translation spreadsheet whose efforts have directly led to the roll-out of EditGrid’s German version. EditGrid is now available in seven languages thanks to all contributors under the ELP.
Once again: charting is in!
September 10th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
You have taken a giant leap away from competitors with this beautiful initiative, thanks for a great application.
The only thing I’m missing is the ability to see numbers on the charts some times. But that’s minor thing.
September 10th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Doesn’t work for me. How about some help, or do we have to guess how to use it?
September 10th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Hi, Pollack,
To create graph, you need to select a region of data, click the graph button on the menu bar, select a chart type, click ok. If the system do not generate the chart you want, it means that it failed to get the meaning of data in the selected range right. Then you need to right-click the graph and edit the properties.
A help system in in our future plan. We will keep improving it. Thanks for using EditGrid.
David
EditGrid Team
September 11th, 2006 at 1:10 am
“To create graph, you need to select a region of data, click the graph button on the menu bar, select a chart type, click ok. If the system do not generate the chart you want, it means that it failed to get the meaning of data in the selected range right. Then you need to right-click the graph and edit the properties.”
Thats what I have been doing, but no chart appeared with an existing data set imported from excel. it works with some newly created data.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:32 am
There’s a funny bug in the current implementation: a chart won’t be created if the sheet name contains a space character or certain other non-alphabets. I’m not sure if yours falls into this case, but if so, rest assured that we’ll have this particular bug patched soon. In the meantime, renaming your sheet to remove the unrecognised characters before re-creating a chart should work.
If this doesn’t work for you, please drop me an email at pkchan -at- tnc (dot) hk so that we may take a closer look at the problem.
September 12th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
We have just fixed the bug where charts fail to be created or edited on a sheet whose name contains a space character. Do check it out and see if this has solved the problem you have reported earlier!