Again using that great original bar chart code with a little modification, we can render a true stacked bar chart. We will use a different color for each stack and each stack will have its own tool tip too ! Just pass an array with your colors, one for each bar. The colors are specified by name, each color name has a corresponding spacer, a gif image file that is dynamically plugged into the IMG tag SRC attribute via our asp code. Make sure to place these files in your /images folder. For expanded tool tip information, pass an array with the additional text. Our example chart display five sensors (columns) with four states of alarm. (stacks). The right-hand column (bar) will represent the totals. The tool tip will first display the quantity followed by a description of what this stack on the bar represents. Note: You can embed the VbTab character to separate tool tip text into columns.

Ok so now you probably know how to get data from databases, text files, forms etc. But when it comes to displaying that data people mostly use tables or listings. The fact is that pure text is bit boring and often you'll get your points across allot better with a simple graph than with a whole page of text. There are several ways to do this, and if you can afford it server components is probably the best way to do it. This is because such components can generate images serverside, giving you both a high grade of browser compatibility (no need for Java or plugins) as well as high grade of design freedom. But what if you can't pay up several hundred or thousands of dollars to buy such a component? There are alternatives. Our first approach is using images that we resize with ASP to display bar graphs. Our second approach is a Java applet that can display a more advanced graph, but depends on a Java capable browser.

This article with the attached files demonstrates building a stack bar chart using ASP without components.

In this first part, we take a step-by-step approach to automatically generate a bar (or pie) chart from data stored in a database. In the second part, we dynamically add hot spots to the bars/slices in our chart and link them to other pages. This may seem like a tall order, but it can be relatively easily accomplished with the right tools and approach.

Charts are very useful for internet applications. Imagine an online stock brokerage, or perhaps you have a scientific site that tracks population patterns. You can use charts virtually anywhere. The problem is that most people believe to create a chart, you must use a separate program and create a GIF or JPG to insert into your web page, not to mention the fact that there are not many resources out there to show you how. Here, we'll show you how to do it dynamically and through ASP, so no more chart GIFs This article will assume you have basic knowledge of chart types and terminology.

Utilizing some simple html and the output from an access db effective graphs can be produced without the need for third party components. The example data base contains the weekly highs (high), the week ending date (weekof) and stock split (split) info for Yahoo. The height of an image file (blue.jpg) is adjusted to the week ending high (high) and the alt for that image is set to the week ending date (weekof) and the value (high).

Charting is most common task you will need in data presentation. This article shows simple method to create charts without external client or server objects, without .gif, jpg or png - the chart is created as HTML, directly in page. The simpliest task is to create bar charts. HTML gives you many formatting possibilities to show bars in graph.

One thing you're most likely to implement more than once in your career as a web page programmer is guest books. When your career already spans some years, then you might have implemented guest books using Perl or even CGI, or with Internet Information Server (IIS) using the Internet Database Connector, IDC. With IIS 3.0 the new Active Server Pages (ASP) were added and enabled almost everyone to start programming cool, customized and data-driven web pages in next to no time. This article deals with the latter - getting database data live on the Web and also gathering data on a web page that is then inserted into a database.

This basic tutorial will show you how to display a picture from an .asp file. A banner rotator script is used as an example.

This script will generate a Column Graph. You may set up dimensions of the graph and the script will automatically calculate the maximun values for X (length of the serie) and Y (maximum value from the serie of numbers).