vertical text ish, prob with charting

[Hagster]

Hello All,
Firstly you might tell me to bugger off since im using Bluedragon and not CF (CF 7 would get rid of my problem) so any how im trying to create a work around.

OK here goes:

I have a CFCHART (all works great)

The parameter in ;
CFCHARTDATA item='data label here'
always renders as horizontal on the data labels, in CF 7 you can use a style sheet to customise this attribute to render vertically I believe the value is something like;

CFCHARTDATA item='data label here'
labelstyle isHideOverlapped TRUE orientation=Horizontal

Ok but I dont have this luxory in Bluedragon, but I have noticed I can get vertical text if I preset a variable like below.

CFSET dataname = 'JOE'
(if I use this as my item parameter
CFCHARTDATA item= dataname
I get horizontal text as you would exspect.


CFSET dataname = '
J
O
E
'

If I use the dataname variable set like above I get nice Vertical Text.

So I thought Im on a roll here, I have been trying to work out some loop to just format my datanames like above but I cant work it out. any ideas.

Or my other metod would be to somehow set the dataname variable against a CSS stlye.

I can set a stlye up in the header and then Is it possible to apply that class stlye against a variable?

these are the two work arounds im trying but Im not having much success.

Any one got any ideas pleaase

Kind Regards Guy

Sorry messed up attaching code etc, been a long day so far.

[Hagster]

Ignor this I was questioning about my symbols but I have already noticed the attach Code button

[Hagster · Accepted solution]

Worked it out

I loop the text I want as the Data Labels and create a text string like below then just pass this to the item parameter in CFCHARTDATA.

If I want the data label to be JOE BLOGGS but vertically

I creat a variable that is like below (I did not realise you can pass CRs through variables like this)

[Hagster]

If I dumped a set of text to a file how would you trigger a CR in the line of text.

can you get htlm to execute as you are dumping to a file or variable

e.g. my attach code thing is not working so I replaced GT and LT for ' ' to show html code.

The cat 'BR' jumped over 'BR' the fence.

would be dumped to a file like

The cat
Jumped over
the fence