At the Meet the Developers session someone asked why there isn’t charting tools “free” in the Notes client. There actually is, as I have demonstrated integration with Notes views and Symphony in the past (video 1, video 2, video 3), however, there have recently been a lot of up-take using XPages and Dojo charting. Check out the two postings by Thomas Adrian:
Mix a Lotus Notes view and an xPage Chart in a Composite Application
Dojo Charts in xPages in a Composite Application
Paul Withers also posted a series of articles that you can check out to learn how to use Dojox:
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part One: Background and Generic Code
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Two: Creating Series and Generating the Pie Chart
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Three: Column and Bar Charts
Dojox Charting Tutorial – Part Four: Line Chart Via Javascript
A third option, because Lotus Notes is Eclipse based, you can also use BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool).
In short, it looks like you have a few options to get free charting in Lotus Notes. If you do not want to use Symphony, then XPages, Composite Applications, Dojo, or BIRT are alternatives.
Here is another simple sample showing how to use Dojo charting in XPages: http://www.openntf.org/catalogs/a2cat.nsf/topicThread.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=6F3B1069384731948525768500274C36
Why doesnt someone create a single downloadable file, with proper credits, that shows all the options. That would be the best way to evangelize what can be done
I also have a number of examples from Lotusphere sessions I’ve done on this very subject for the past three years: http://www.nsftools.com/presentations
Another excellent resource is the NotesReconn app on OpenNTF: http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Notes%20Reconn
Thanks Bob,
Here is another way using excel
http://www.notessidan.se/blogg.nsf/xstart.xsp?post=E931339F1080E054C12572D60029C754
and here is a demo of the Dojo chart, (not for you IE guys)
http://notessidan.se/thomas/bc.nsf
Best Regards
Thomas