Welcome to the 2014 Fall Edition of the Chartline Newsletter!

Have you finished your dashboard project that allows you to track the metrics going into the last quarter of the year? Why wait? Take a test drive today with any of our products to see which one that works best for you!

Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We’re always happy to hear from you and help you get the most out of the NetCharts solutions. We value your business and hope to hear from you soon!

– The Visual Mining Team

In this issue:

1. Chart Spotlight

Have you ever needed to display a chart thumbnail in line with text but didn’t know how to build one or what tool to use?

The thumbnail sized chart is also called Sparkline which is a small minimal chart without the usual axes, tic lines or grids. This chart type is intended to show a trend in a clear and simple way in the text it’s part of.

For example:

Using NetCharts Designer you can easily build a Sparkline template as shown in the image above.

See our blog post where we guide you through 6 simple steps of how to build a Sparkline using NetCharts Designer.

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2. Developers Corner

Visual Mining product’s core rendering engines share the same Chart Definition Language (CDL) language. While CDL is a text based language, NetCharts Designer offers a user interface with wizards and menus to design and style the charts, removing the need to learn CDL. The benefits include reduced development time, ease of development vs. manually defining templates, and the ability to access some of the unique and innovative features only available with the NetCharts rendering engines.

You’ll find a great example in our blog post of how to use NetCharts Designer to build a template featuring multiple axes to present complementary data within the same chart.

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3. Did You Know?

The first version of NetCharts Designer was named ChartBlaster and released in 1996. Since the first release it got renamed into ChartExpress and later Chartworks Designer before becoming NetCharts Designer as it’s known as today.

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4. Product Updates

Visual Mining has released an updated version of the signed NetCharts Pro 7.1 core JAR file. This updated ncp-core.jar file has been signed with an extended certificate and is used when presenting NetCharts Pro charts in applets mode. We recommend all NetCharts Pro applets users review the KB article and update their deployed JAR file.

Using this updated JAR file it is possible to limit the warnings to a single dialog when the first NetCharts Pro is presented. For more information, see our KB solution 517 which describes the issue in greater detail and includes the signed NetCharts Pro 7.1 ncp-core.jar with instructions. This KB solution is available via our Customer Support Portal for users with a current License Support & Maintenance agreement.

Contact our technical support team for more information, to verify the status of your License Support and Maintenance agreement or to ask how you can obtain a License Support and Maintenance agreement. We always recommend that users with valid License Support and Maintenance agreements log into the Customer Support Portal and review the available solutions for any questions you may have.

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5. Our Products

If you are using an older version of our products we invite you to explore the product sections below to read about all the new features waiting for users with current License Support and Maintenance Agreements. We recommend upgrading to our most current version to take advantage of all the new features.

Remember that you are welcome to download your own free fully functional evaluation copy of any of our products below. Simply click the green Download Now button located on the product pages.

• NetCharts Performance Dashboards 2.5 (NCPD) is a web-based business intelligence and performance dashboard solution that allows you to easily transform your data into actionable information with no programming or coding required.

• NetCharts Server 7.0 is an enterprise-ready hosting platform that helps development professionals deliver a comprehensive, effective, and intuitive visual presentation layer designed using NetCharts Designer, whether standalone or integrated with other application servers.

• NetCharts Designer 7.0 is a comprehensive development and design studio for creating and implementing reports, dashboards, charts, and graphs that can be used in web-based applications such as those hosted in NetCharts Server.

• NetCharts Pro 7.1 provides a comprehensive chart library to create and deploy interactive charting within Java based applications, web-browsers, and internet-enabled devices.

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