ChartDirector 7.0 (Java Edition)

Waterfall Chart




This example demonstrates creating a multi-color waterfall chart.

This chart is created as a multi-color box-whisker layer using XYChart.addBoxWhiskerLayer2. Only the "box" part of the box-whisker layer is used.

The top-edges of the boxes are obtained by accumulating the raw data using the ArrayMath utility. The bottom-edges of the boxes are simply the top-edges of previous boxes, with the exception of the last "total" box which always starts at 0.

Source Code Listing

[JSP Version] jspdemo/waterfall.jsp
<%@page import="ChartDirector.*, java.util.*" %> <% // 4 data points to represent the cash flow for the Q1 - Q4 double[] data = {230, 140, 220, 330, 150}; // We want to plot a waterfall chart showing the 4 quarters as well as the total String[] labels = {"Product 1", "Product 2", "Product 3", "Product 4", "Product 5", "Total"}; // The top side of the bars in a waterfall chart is the accumulated data. We use the ChartDirector // ArrayMath utility to accumulate the data. The "total" is handled by inserting a zero point at the // end before accumulation (after accumulation it will become the total). double[] boxTop = new ArrayMath(data).insert2(0, 1).acc().result(); // The botom side of the bars is just the top side of the previous bar. So we shifted the top side // data to obtain the bottom side data. double[] boxBottom = new ArrayMath(boxTop).shift(1, 0).result(); // The last point (total) is different. Its bottom side is always 0. boxBottom[boxBottom.length - 1] = 0; // Create a XYChart object of size 500 x 280 pixels. Set background color to light blue (ccccff), // with 1 pixel 3D border effect. XYChart c = new XYChart(500, 290, 0xccccff, 0x000000, 1); // Add a title to the chart using 13 points Arial Bold Itatic font, with white (ffffff) text on a // deep blue (0x80) background c.addTitle("Product Revenue - Year 2004", "Arial Bold Italic", 13, 0xffffff).setBackground(0x000080) ; // Set the plotarea at (55, 50) and of size 430 x 215 pixels. Use alternative white/grey background. c.setPlotArea(55, 45, 430, 215, 0xffffff, 0xeeeeee); // Set the labels on the x axis using Arial Bold font c.xAxis().setLabels(labels).setFontStyle("Arial Bold"); // Set the x-axis ticks and grid lines to be between the bars c.xAxis().setTickOffset(0.5); // Use Arial Bold as the y axis label font c.yAxis().setLabelStyle("Arial Bold"); // Add a title to the y axis c.yAxis().setTitle("USD (in millions)"); // Add a multi-color box-whisker layer to represent the waterfall bars BoxWhiskerLayer layer = c.addBoxWhiskerLayer2(boxTop, boxBottom); // Put data labels on the bars to show the cash flow using Arial Bold font layer.setDataLabelFormat("{={top}-{bottom}}M"); layer.setDataLabelStyle("Arial Bold").setAlignment(Chart.Center); // Output the chart WebChartViewer viewer = new WebChartViewer(request, "chart1"); viewer.setChart(c, Chart.SVG); // Include tool tip for the chart viewer.setImageMap(c.getHTMLImageMap("", "", "title='{xLabel}: {={top}-{bottom}} millions'")); %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Waterfall Chart</title> <!-- Include ChartDirector Javascript Library to support chart interactions --> <script type="text/javascript" src="cdjcv.js"></script> </head> <body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px"> <div style="font:bold 18pt verdana;"> Waterfall Chart </div> <hr style="border:solid 1px #000080; background:#000080" /> <div style="font:10pt verdana; margin-bottom:1.5em"> <a href="viewsource.jsp?file=<%=request.getServletPath()%>">View Source Code</a> </div> <!-- ****** Here is the chart image ****** --> <%= viewer.renderHTML(response) %> </body> </html>