AnyChart News

Improved Charting in Oracle APEX

June 24th, 2010 by Margaret Skomorokh

New version of Oracle APEX is available. A lot of new features >>

And… Improved Charting with Gantts and Maps

“The underlying charting engine has been upgraded to AnyChart 5.1 which is faster, provides better graphics, and decreases rendering time. Developers can take advantage of the many additional attributes to readily customize the appearance of their charts. Declarative support for project and resource Gantt charts together with flash Maps has also been incorporated.”

To view the new features in action, run the demonstration application.


AnyChart has discovered bug in Skype. Skype promises to fix it ASAP.

July 27th, 2009 by Margaret Skomorokh

We were getting strange bug reports during several years, and the main idea of that reports is the fact that memory in Internet Explorer 6/7 with Flash Player 9/10 leaks when user refreshes the page. We have spent a lot of time and money trying to locate it, we lost a lot of clients. It was a nightmare for everybody in our support and development teams. We have blamed Adobe and Microsoft, but we never could even think that it is not their fault. And today the miracle has happened. We have tested on two different PCs: one of of them had the memory leak, the second one did not. And the reason of the problem was… Internet Explorer Skype add-on.
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AnyGantt: Advanced Gantt Editing Capabilities Now Available at a Reasonable Price

July 23rd, 2009 by Anton Baranchuk

SEATTLE, Washington, July 22 — AnyChart has introduced the new version of its comprehensive charting solution AnyGantt, enabling creation of interactive and informative Gantt charts supporting animation. The new version delivers a host of enhancements to cut costs and maximize visualization, including the ability to edit Gantt Charts on a client-side computer.

AnyGantt now allows a user to edit tasks, change the duration, and add progress updates. Along with a GUI-based interface, the software provides advanced Java Scripting data manipulation capabilities. The users can employ this new extended functionality to build complex web based project management systems, without wasting money on expensive BI tools. Read more »


AnyChart Knowledge Base

June 30th, 2009 by Timothy Loginov

To provide AnyChart Users with even more information about our software products AnyChart launches the Knowledge Base. We will do our best to put there most relevant troubleshooting information, articles, white papers, user manuals, or answers to frequently asked questions.  Please use the following URL to access the knowledge base: https://www.anychart.com/kb/ Feel free to suggest your questions to add to our KB and thank you for using our products!


AnyGantt version 4.1 – Editable Gantt Chart

June 14th, 2009 by Timothy Loginov

On 14th of June AnyChart is proud to release version 4.1.0 of AnyGantt Flash Gantt Component with UI and JavaScript Chart Editing Features.

Now you can create full-featured interactive applications for project management applications.

Please download the latest trial version from AnyChart Download Section.

javascript anygantt ria flash

New Features

  • Editing tasks, resources or periods properties using client-side User Interface.
  • Editing tasks, resources or periods properties using JavaScript.
  • Ability to select tasks, resources or periods.
  • Editing, selection event model.
  • Summary Tasks Auto-Recalculation.
  • Retrieving chart details in XML format.
  • Retrieving chart details in JavaScript format.
  • Milestones in Resource Projects.
  • Resources Grouping Feature.

To give an idea how AnyGantt can be used and demonstrate key features we have created these online-demos:

javascript anygantt ria flash Sample presents the visualization of Activity-Based Gantt Chart.
View Editable Project Gantt Sample
javascript anygantt ria flash Sample presents visualization of Resource-Based Gantt Chart:

View Editable Resource Gantt Sample
javascript anygantt ria flash Sample presents how AnyGantt can be used to show Activity-Oriented Chart build from Microsoft Project .mpp files:

View Microsoft Project MPP File Viewer

PR: Rich Data Visualization is Now Available for Microsoft SharePoint Users

June 9th, 2009 by Anton Baranchuk

For Immediate Release

Rich Data Visualization is Now Available for Microsoft SharePoint Users

Seattle, WA June 10, 2009 – The AnyChart Company, a leading provider of data visualization solutions, has announced an OEM agreement with CorasWorks for its AnyChart for SharePoint Product. Under the terms of this agreement the existing users of CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset will soon be able to take the full advantage of the rich data visualization functionality developed by AnyChart at no extra cost.
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News from our partners – Apex Evangelists

February 27th, 2009 by Anton Baranchuk

Dimitri Gielis from Apex Evangelists has announced European APEX training days in Manchester, UK,  20th-22nd of April. Apex Evangelists is a company which specializes in working with the Oracle Application Express development Environment and also they are our partners and have extensive experience of working with the AnyChart products. Together with them we provide AnyChart APEX integration kit, see it here: http://www.anychart.apex-evangelists.com

Please read more details about upcoming training in his blog.

APEX training days

PS. “Mastering Charts and Gantts” is one of sessions of that training


AnyChart 5.1.2 – JavaScript Data Manipulation

February 13th, 2009 by Timothy Loginov

javascript anychart ria flash On 13th of February AnyChart is proud to release version 5.1.2 of AnyChart Flash Charting Component with JavaScript Data Manipulation Methods.

Please download the latest trial version from AnyChart Download Section.

AnyChart is based on XML data input, but if you’d like to create Data Streaming or fully Client Size interactive applications you can use Java Script data manipulation options. These methods allows you to add, remove or change the data points and data series in a single chart or in the chart that is a part of a dashboard. Also, you can highlight a point or a series, or select/deselect a point. Along with AJAX related functions you can create application that will give users the great option of run-time chart data editing.

Also, the special Dataplot Attributes can be used to update chart titles, footers and other texts on the chart.

Read more about JavaScript Data Manipulation in AnyChart Users Guide >>

Here is a bunch of samples that give  you an overview of new features:

anychart oracle apex

Oracle APEX Users can now use an updated AnyChart 5.1 Engine in their APEX Applications – 5.1.2 release features new integration kit. Please refer to Apex Evangelists: AnyChart 5 integration kit for APEX for more.


AnyChart 5.1.1 – CSV Data Support, Flash CS3 Charts

February 3rd, 2009 by Timothy Loginov

Just in 10 days after the previous release – new 5.1.1 version has arrived. We’re happy to introduce several new features. “We’ve added feature-rich CSV support,” said Alex Batsuev, lead developer of AnyChart product.  “This feature began as a customer request.” It allows to make data file smaller and decrease loading time.  It is possible to reuse CSV tables in different series and dashboard views. Read more about CSV Data>>

CSV Import Adobe Flash integration Drag Ability for Scrollable Charts

Other AnyChart version 5.1.1 new features

  • Adobe Flash Integration 
    New Feature – A set of samples making possible the use of AnyChart Charts, Maps and Gauges in Flash CS3.
    Read more Flash CS3 Integration >>
  • Drag Ability for Scrollable Charts
    New Feature – Drag Ability for Scrollable Charts. You can configure chart to make it draggable when the chart area is zoomed.

Read more about AnyChart version history and plans for new upcoming releases. Feel free to contact us with your comments, ideas and suggestions.