A column chart with an export menu: the icon at the top right saves the chart as an image or a PDF, saves its data as a spreadsheet, or prints it. Change the chart with the controls first, and the export shows it as changed.
People copy charts into reports, slides and emails, and a screenshot loses quality and the data behind it. An export menu gives them a sharp image or PDF of exactly what they see, and the numbers as CSV or Excel, without a trip back to whoever made the chart.
Built with amCharts 5, a JavaScript library. The code includes your theme and renderer (canvas or SVG), but not the changes you make with the controls.
npm install @amcharts/amcharts5. See Getting started.
The same chart as a JSON config. Chart Maker reads and writes this format, the library's JSON parser turns it into a chart, and the <am5-chart> element puts it on a page with no code."type" is the class to create and "settings" what you would pass to its new() in code; "properties" fill in its parts, lists such as series and axes or templates such as columns.template; "refs" holds objects used in more than one place ("#series-0" stands for the one named series-0); a string starting with "@" takes a value from another object, such as "@series.get('fill')".
A complete page. Save it as an .html file and open it in a browser.
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// Create root element
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/getting-started/#Root_element
var root = am5.Root.new("chartdiv");
// Set themes
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/concepts/themes/
root.setThemes([
am5themes_Animated.new(root),
am5themes_Responsive.new(root)
]);
// Create chart
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/xy-chart/
var chart = root.container.children.push(am5xy.XYChart.new(root, {
panX: false, // no dragging the plot
panY: false,
wheelX: "panX", // a horizontal wheel or trackpad swipe pans...
wheelY: "zoomX", // ...and the vertical wheel zooms in on the countries
layout: root.verticalLayout
}));
// each column takes the next palette color, through columnSettings and the templateField below
var data = [{
country: "USA",
visits: 4025,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "China",
visits: 1882,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Japan",
visits: 1809,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Germany",
visits: 1322,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "UK",
visits: 1122,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "France",
visits: 1114,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "India",
visits: 984,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Spain",
visits: 711,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Netherlands",
visits: 665,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Korea",
visits: 443,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Canada",
visits: 441,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Brazil",
visits: 395,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Italy",
visits: 386,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Australia",
visits: 384,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Taiwan",
visits: 338,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}, {
country: "Poland",
visits: 328,
columnSettings: {
fill: chart.get("colors").next()
}
}]
// Create axes
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/xy-chart/axes/
var xRenderer = am5xy.AxisRendererX.new(root, {
// columns use the middle 80% of their category's width, leaving gaps between them
cellStartLocation: 0.1,
cellEndLocation: 0.9,
// turned labels need little room, so every country gets one
minGridDistance: 20
});
var xAxis = chart.xAxes.push(am5xy.CategoryAxis.new(root, {
categoryField: "country",
renderer: xRenderer,
tooltip: am5.Tooltip.new(root, {}) // shows the hovered country on the axis
}));
xRenderer.grid.template.setAll({
location: 1 // grid lines at the end of each country's cell, between the columns
});
// Labels turned at an angle, so long names like Netherlands don't run into their neighbors
xRenderer.labels.template.setAll({
multiLocation: 0.5, // a label covering several countries sits in the middle of them
rotation: -45, // 45 degrees, reading upward
centerX: am5.p100, // each name ends under its column...
centerY: am5.p50, // ...centered on that point...
paddingRight: 10 // ...with a 10px gap
});
xAxis.data.setAll(data);
var yAxis = chart.yAxes.push(am5xy.ValueAxis.new(root, {
renderer: am5xy.AxisRendererY.new(root, {
strokeOpacity: 0.1 // a faint line along the value axis
})
}));
// Add series
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/xy-chart/series/
var series = chart.series.push(am5xy.ColumnSeries.new(root, {
xAxis: xAxis,
yAxis: yAxis,
valueYField: "visits",
categoryXField: "country"
}));
series.columns.template.setAll({
tooltipText: "{categoryX}: {valueY}", // as "USA: 4025"
width: am5.percent(90), // 90% of the cell space set on the renderer
// the tooltip points at the top of the column
tooltipY: 0,
strokeOpacity: 0, // no outline
templateField: "columnSettings"
});
series.data.setAll(data);
// Add export menu: the icon in the top right corner saves the chart as an
// image or PDF, the data as JSON, CSV, Excel, PDF or HTML, or prints it
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/concepts/exporting/
var exporting = am5plugins_exporting.Exporting.new(root, {
menu: am5plugins_exporting.ExportingMenu.new(root, {}),
// The data part of the menu exports these two fields, with these column names
dataSource: data,
dataFields: {
country: "Country",
visits: "Visits"
}
});
// Make stuff animate on load
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/concepts/animations/
series.appear();
chart.appear(1000, 100);