Flash Based Charting - Using Web Viewers for charts
Web Viewers can be extremely powerful tools when used for features other than pointing to simple web pages. Always keep this in mind when considering Web Viewers - anything you've ever seen on a web page is now something you can show within a FileMaker database.
One great example is Flash-based charts. There are more than a few places where you can find vendors providing flash based charting files. What you need to know is how to embed these within a web viewer and how to make them work. Fortunately, this video will walk you through the step-by-step process of integrating this powerful technology.
If you've been looking for super-cool, awesome charting within FileMaker then watch this video and you'll be charting within the hour!
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FusionCharts for FileMaker
Absolutely right. Using Web Viewers users can incorporate so many things into their FM solutions. FusionCharts Free for FileMaker is a free flash charting tool for FileMaker and it uses Web Viewer to generate charts inside FM solutions. The online documentation of the product explains well how to embed the charts in Web Viewer. It is a great resource indeed.