Style attribute not workin in CF8 CFChart?

[Guest]

Okay, this is a wierd one.

I am currently working on applying an <xml> style set to a <cfchart> tag using the style="" attributes. Locally, this works fine, however when I port the chart to the testing server, it breaks with the error, "The chart type specified in the style is not a supported ColdFusion chart type".  If I comment out the style attribute, cfchart works on that server (without all my careful styling of course).  I've tried just putting in an empty style, a one line style.  It doesn't matter, it still breaks.

I don't have any control over the testing server, however I have been able to figure out a few things.

1) Both my local dev environment and the testing server are running CF 8 Version 8,0,1,195765.

2) The test environment has some things locked out of it, specifically it doesn't have a virtual directory to CFIDE (tho I was able to work with the server admin and put one in for testing purposes which didn't help).

3)The ColdFusion8\wwwroot\WEB-INF\cftags\META-INF\taglib.cfld on the testing server has the cfchart style attribute implemented the same as on my local dev environment.

Any ideas? Any places I should be looking? I'm stumped and would love to get my clients off the 10 year old Java Graphing program they are currently using if possible.

[-__cfSearching__- · Accepted solution]

Assuming the testing server is running the code posted, the error message sounds a bit misleading.  <piechart> is supported even in MX7.

What happens if you use one of the default styles:

         C:\ColdFusion8\charting\styles\default_pie.xml

Copy default_pie.xml into your cfm script directory. Then create a simple example and use the file name, instead of a variable. Any difference?

<cfchart....

   style="beige_pie.xml">

...

</cfchart>

[Guest]

I'm not sure why that worked, but it did.  Thank you very much!

[-__cfSearching__-]

You are welcome.  Though I think the error message was misleading.  Sometimes programs are picky about how you generate xml content.  They do not like extra line feeds, etcetra. Try placing the <?xml ...> declaration on the same line as the <cfsavecontent...> or alternately doing a trim() on the variable.

<cfsavecontent variable="piestyle"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <pieChart depth="Plain" style="Solid" angle="0" rim="Thick" is3D="false" altText="#alttext#" font="Arial-12">

.....

</cfsaveconten>