Thanks for your response...

That's a good question.  I've verified that the template is in the charting directory and that style is set to "default_not_interpolated" (same name as the .xml file in the charging directory).  Is there another way to verify if it is being applied?

Thanks again...

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the filename needs to be in the value of the Style attribute for the cfchart right?  If your answer is yes then that's already been done...it's what I meant by "style is set to "default_not_interpolated" (same name as the .xml file in the charging directory)".   For clarity, here's my code:

                <cfchart format="flash" style="default_non_interpolated" yaxistitle="Cumulative $$$" chartheight="300"
                  chartwidth="450" fontsize="10" showmarkers="no" showlegend="yes" show3d="no">

                <cfchartseries type="line" serieslabel="3Yr Average"                            
                    seriescolor="##AAAAAA" >
                      <cfloop index="c" from="1" to="12">
                        <cfchartdata item="#xlabels[c]#" value="#histAvg[c]#">
                      </cfloop>
                  </cfchartseries>
                
                  <cfchartseries type="line" serieslabel="Current Year"                            
                    seriescolor="##018505" >
                      <cfloop index="c" from="1" to="#arraylen(currYrCumGraph)#">
                        <cfchartdata item="#xlabels[c]#" value="#currYrCumGraph[c]#">
                      </cfloop>
                  </cfchartseries>

               </cfchart>

Are you suggesting that I use the full path to the xml file?

Thanks again for working through this with me!  Really appreciate it!

So I tried a few things to get <cfchart> styles attribute to use the default_non_interpolated.xml file. I tried referencing the file as:

• c:/[cfroot]/charting/styles/[filename.xml] (original location)
• //c:/[cfroot]/charting/styles/[filename.xml]
• //[cfroot]/charting/styles/[filename.xml]
• c:\[cfroot]\charting\styles\[filename.xml]
• \[cfroot]\charting\styles\[filename.xml]

And I copied the xml to the same directory as the *.cfm file which references it and tried:

• c:/[path to site root]/[subfolder]/[filename.xml]
• //c:/[path to site root]/[subfolder]/[filename.xml]
• //[path to site root]/[subfolder]/[filename.xml]
• c:\[path to site root]\[subfolder]\[filename.xml]
• \\c:\[path to site root]\[subfolder]\[filename.xml]

None of the above worked...all threw an error "Could not find the style file....".  So I thought I'd go at it from the other end. And tried:

• [filename.xml]
• /[subfolder]/[filename.xml]
• /[sitefolder]/[subfolder]/[filename.xml]

And all of these succeeded in rendering the template (no errors) except that the graph was drawn as described in my first post.

When I tried

• /htdocs/[sitefolder]/[subfolder]/[filename.xml]

I got the error message again.

So it seems that it's not liking the full path scenario NOR is it applying the template when it is "found" (or at least not throwing an error to that effect).

Frustrating...

@cfSearching - thanks for the suggestions and apologies for the delay in getting back to this...

I tried both of your methods and they both successfully created a chart.  Alas they both  still show the second series going to zero for points 5 thru 12.

I even modified the 'autoadjust' and 'is3D' variables to ensure that cfchart was "reading" the style information correctly.  Sure enough, the chart changed when those two variables changed, but "isInterpolated" seems to have no effect on the outcome.

Just curious...did you try your code on your your machine and have it work?   If so, that means there is some setting somewhere on my machine that is fettering my attempts to get this to work!

Yes...it works just fine in WebCharts.

So I've taken several other steps...

I went back to the original default.xml and started over by copying it wholesale to a new_non_interpolated.xml.  I then changed the "isInterpolated" attribute and still got the same extended line.  I've copied the new_non_interpolated to every possible directory I can think of (direct directory of the template, directory of a the calling template, root of the site, and in the original charting/styles directory of CF9.   All to no avail.  I even looked in CF Administrator to see if there was an obvious setting that I might have changed, but nothing of the sort exists.

This is truly baffling...

Yeah, I've kinda reached the end of the road for now too.

Full CF is:                  9,0,1,274733

I've cleared the browser cache and the server cache. No luck.

It also occurred to me that I've solely been testing this in Firefox 3.6.12.  So I tried it in IE as well.   No luck.

One other thought: are you on a Win7 box?  Could be that that's the only diff between our systems?  It would only be something about the interaction between WebCharts and CF9 though since WebCharts by itself seems fine.

Ah well, when I get some more time I might try reinstalling CF9 on this box or maybe on an old Win XP box just for giggles.

Thanks again for all of your responses...been fun troubleshooting with you.  I don't know where in the world you might be, but from this Californian a Happy (belated) ThanksGiving!!   And if that's not a holiday where you are, then be well and go out and enjoy life!