Question

I’ve got a basic pie chart with values like this

    <cfchartdata item="January" value="503100">
    <cfchartdata item="February" value="720310">
    <cfchartdata item="March" value="688700">

I’d like to link each piece of the pie to a specific URL – I don’t need to post any variables to the URL.

I tried something like this;

<cfchartdata item="January" value="503100" url="januarydata.cfm">

but URL is not a valid attribute for ‘cfchartdata’

Answer 1

The url attribute belongs to the CFChart tag, not the CFChartData tag

URL:

URL to open if the user clicks item in a data series; the onClick
destination page.

You can specify variables within the URL string; ColdFusion passes
current values of the variables.

• $VALUE$: the value of the selected row. If none, the value is an empty
  string.

• $ITEMLABEL$: the label of the selected item. If none, the
  value is an empty string.

• $SERIESLABEL$: the label of the selected
  series.

• If none, the value is an empty string, for example:
  “somepage.cfm?item=$ITEMLABEL$&series=$SERIESLABEL$&value=$VALUE$

• “javascript:…”: executes a client-side script.

if you want to do a dynamic search you can use the dynamic values above mixed in with static and other CF values. for example:

<cfchart url="someSearchPage.cfm?param1=Static Text&param2=#form.ColdFusionFormVariable#&param3=$ITEMLABEL$" ...>

In this example the $ITEMLABEL$ is converted to the label automatically.

Disclaimer

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Before answering your actual question, I should point out that this isn’t a good practice and defeats the entire purpose of a dynamic website. You should consider a single page that accepts a parameter and pulls the data from a database depending on that parameter. For example monthlyData.cfm?month=january

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The simplest way would be to put the item label in the file name as you confirmed worked in the comments.

<cfchart url = "$itemLabel$data.cfm" ...>

If you needed to do a little more testing before sending the user along, you could send them to a single ColdFusion page and use CFSWITCH / CFCASE or good old CFIF / CFELSE if there aren’t that many combinations.

-or-

you could use the javaScript: option and run a function that uses window.location depending on the series clicked.

javaScript:goto($itemSeries$,$seriesLabel$)

The js function may look like:

function goto(item,label){
  if(item == "..." && label== "..."){
   document.location = "..."; 
  }else{
   etc...;
  }
}