Create the Management Charts

Figure 1. A screenshot of the Kendo UI Music Store management charts

kendo-manage-charts-screenshot

When logged in the Music Store as an administrator, an additional button titled Manage Store is available in the upper-right corner. This opens the management graphs which can be used to monitor the sales status of the store. This page uses Kendo UI widgets rendering data visualization to display the graphs.

This code is located in Scripts/App/storemanager-graphs.js.

Log in the Music Store as an administrator by using the Owner username and the p@ssword123 password.

HTML Setup

The page contains a date range selector that can be used to choose whether to view a day, week, month, or year of data. This selector is represented by a Kendo UI ListView widget. The main graph is represented by a Kendo UI Chart widget.

The following example demonstrates the HTML that is used.

<ul id="date-range" class="selector" ></ul>
<h3>Overall Sales</h3>
<div id="revenue-chart"></div>

Start by setting up the DataSource for the Revenue/Orders chart.

var revenueChartDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
    transport: {
        read: {
            url: store.config.salesAndRevenueUrl,
            dataType: "json"
        }
    },
    sort: {
        field: "Day",
        dir: "asc"
    }
});

The data represented by these charts is generated randomly on the server. It was unreasonable to backfill a year's worth of orders into the SQL Local DB on startup.

The grid is now initialized with this data.

var createOrderRevenueChart = function () {
    $("#revenue-chart").kendoChart({
        theme: $(document).data("kendoSkin") || "default",
        dataSource: revenueChartDataSource,
        legend: {
            position: "top"
        },
        series: [
            ...
        ],
        valueAxis: [
            ...
        ],
        categoryAxis: {
            ...
        },
        tooltip: {
            visible: true
        }
    });
};

Specify the Series

The chart contains two series. One is the total revenue per day. The other is the number of orders per day. They are defined in the series: [] array property.

series: [
      {
          type: "column",
          name: "Revenue",
          field: "Revenue",
          color: "#cc6e38",
          tooltip: {
              visible: true,
              format: "{0:c}"
          }
      },
      {
          type: "line",
          name: "Orders",
          field: "Orders",
          color: "#5a5959",
          axis: "orders",
          tooltip: {
              visible: true,
              format: "{0} Orders"
          }
      }
  ]

Each series is defined by an object that contains the properties listed below:

The type property is the type or style of chart to render. A column chart for the revenue and a line chart for the orders are used here. This demonstrates that it is possible to mix chart types on a single chart.
The name property is the display name that will be shown in the legend of the chart, if the legend is displayed.
The field property is the name of the property on the data that contains the values you want to render on the chart.
The color property is the color used representing the series on the chart and in the legend.
The tooltip property defines what will be displayed if the user hovers over a data point or column. The format string follows the parameters for the kendo.format function.

Define the Axis

The valueAxis property is set to an array of objects that represent the vertical axis on the chart. The number of items in the series and valueAxis arrays should be the same.

    valueAxis: [
        {
            title: { text: "Revenue" },
            labels: {
                format: "c"
            }
        },
        {
            name: "orders",
            title: { text: "Number of Orders" },
            color: "#ec5e0a"
        }
    ]

The name property is the display value that will be placed alongside the vertical axis.

The categoryAxis property is set to a single item that represents the horizontal axis.

    categoryAxis: {
        field: "Day",
        format: "d",
        type: "date",
        baseUnit: selectedDateRange.unit,
        labels: {
            rotation: 60
        },
        axisCrossingValue: [0, 1000]
    }

The field property is the name of the property on the data objects that will be used to get the value to display.

The format and type properties are used to specify the axis consists of dates and to format them as dates.

The axisCrossingValue is an array that specified where each of the vertical axis defined in the valueAxis array should be rendered. Each value in the array corresponds to the valueAxis with the same array index. For the first value a 0 is specified for the first value to place the Revenue vertical axis on the left. To place the Orders vertical axis on the right side of the graph, a number has to be chosen that is bigger than the number of items in the categoryAxis. The biggest collection here will be when you display data for the Month time range, where the last 30 days will be shown, so any number higher than that could have been chosen.

Date Range Updates

To facilitate selecting a date range to display on the chart, the examples use a Kendo UI ListView widget to display the available date ranges. First, define an array of the date ranges, using date.js to get ranges appropriate date ranges. The default selected item is also saved to a separate variable.

var dateRanges = [{
    name: "Day",
    start: Date.today().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    end: Date.today().add(1).days().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    unit: "days"
},
{
    name: "Week",
    start: Date.today().add(-7).days().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    end: Date.today().add(1).days().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    unit: "days"
},
{
    name: "Month",
    start: Date.today().add(-1).months().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    end: Date.today().add(1).days().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    unit: "days"
},
{
    name: "Year",
    start: Date.today().add(-1).years().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    end: Date.today().add(1).days().toString("M/d/yyyy"),
    unit: "months"
}];

var selectedDateRange = dateRanges[1];

When you query the server for data, add the start and end date of the selected date range as query string parameters. To do this, override the transport.parameterMap on the DataSource, referencing the selectedDateRange in a closure.

var revenueChartDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
    transport: {
        ...

        parameterMap: function (options, type) {
            return {
                start: selectedDateRange.start,
                end: selectedDateRange.end
            };
        }

        ...

In the parameterMap function, we return an object that has start and end properties, which will be added to the request to the server.

The HTML element to hold the date range selector also needs to be set to a ListView widget, and the currently selected value set to the default date range.

var dateRangeSelector = $("#date-range");
dateRangeSelector.kendoListView({
    dataSource: dateRanges,
    template: "<li>#= name #</li>",
    selectable: "single",
    change: dateRangeChanged
});
dateRangeSelector.data("kendoListView").select(dateRangeSelector.children()[1]);

The ListView has selectable: "single" defined in its configuration, which puts the ListView into a selection mode where one item can be selected at a time. On selection change, the change event is triggered. This calls the dateRangeChanged function.

var dateRangeChanged = function (e) {
    var data = this.dataSource.view();
    selectedDateRange = data[$(this.select()[0]).index()];
    $("#revenue-chart").data("kendoChart").options.categoryAxis.baseUnit = selectedDateRange.unit;
    revenueChartDataSource.read();
    genreChartDataSource.read();
};

In this function, take the selected date range item and update the selectedDateRange variable. Then the chart data is redrawn by updating its underlying data source, by calling its .read() method. The baseUnit for the chart is also changed based on the date range. For Day, Week and Month, the scale is set to a single day. For Year, the scale is set to one month. This is done by setting the options.categoryAxis.baseUnit property on the chart before it is redrawn.

Create the Management Charts

HTML Setup

Widget Initialization

Specify the Series

Define the Axis

Date Range Updates

See Also

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