Adobe Flex 3: Building Charting & Dashboard Applications

Description

This Adobe Flex 3: Building Charting & Dashboard Applications training course provides developers with the knowledge needed to use Adobe Flex 3 charts to create highly interactive dashboards for data visualization. By the end of the course, developers will be able to create interactive dashboards by leveraging the Flex 3 framework and the Flex 3 charting components. They will learn about using, formatting and styling Flex 3 charts as well as creating interactive charts and dynamically controlling chart data. You should take this course if you are a Flex programmer who needs to provide data visualization in your Flex applications.

Audience

This Adobe Flex training course is designed for application developers who want to build dashboard applications. To gain the most from this class, you should:

• Have attended the Adobe Flex 3: Developing Rich Internet Client Applications course. -or-
• Have equivalent knowledge of the topics covered in Adobe Flex 3: Developing Rich Internet Client Applications course.

Course Outline (2-day)

Unit 1: Introducing Adobe Flex 3 Charts

• Understanding chart data
• Walkthrough 1: Exploring the final application
• Loading external data for charts and dashboard applications
• How data is handled in this course
• Introducing Flex 3 charts
• Leveraging visual data through charts
• Understanding dashboards

Unit 2: Using Adobe Flex 3 Charts

• Understanding the elements of a chart tag
• Understanding and using the column & bar charts
• Walkthrough 1: Using the Column and Bar charts
• Understanding and using the line & area charts
• Walkthrough 2: Using the line and area charts
• Understanding and using the pie chart
• Walkthrough 3: Using the pie chart
• Understanding and using the plot chart
• Walkthrough 4: Using the plot chart
• Understanding and using the bubble chart
• Walkthrough 5: Using the bubble chart
• Using the Candlestick & HighLowOpenClose Charts
• Walkthrough 6: Using the candlestick chart

Unit 3: Formatting Charts

• Understanding the axis controls
• Walkthrough 1: Using the CategoryAxis
• Using mx:LinearAxis
• Walkthrough 2: Using the LinearAxis
• Using mx:LogAxis
• Walkthrough 3: Using the LogAxis
• Using mx:DateTimeAxis
• Walkthrough 4: Using the DateTimeAxis
• Using the DataTipMode property
• Walkthrough 6: Adjusting DataTip interaction
• Formatting chart types
• Walkthrough: 7: Working with LineSeries forms
• Formatting pie chart labels
• Walkthrough 8: Formatting pie charts
• Working with legend controls
• Walkthrough 9: Adding a chart legend
• Applying the Concepts

Unit 4: Creating Multi-Series and ActionScript Charts

• Understanding multiple data series
• Walkthrough 1: Adding multiple series of data
• Using multiple chart axes
• Walkthrough 2: Using multiple chart axes
• Using stack chart series
• Walkthrough 3: Stacking charts
• Mixing chart series types
• Walkthrough 4: Mixing multiple series types
• Creating charts with ActionScript
• Using ActionScript to create charts
• Walkthrough 5: Creating charts with ActionScript
• Applying the concepts

Unit 5: Understanding Advanced Charting Techniques

• Using animation with chart series
• Walkthrough 1: Animating charts and chart effects
• Handling user interaction
• Walkthrough 2: Handling user interaction
• Walkthrough 3: Displaying and interpreting chart point data
• Dynamically controlling chart series
• Walkthrough 4: Filtering data with range selection
• Walkthrough 5: Changing a chart's data at runtime
• Walkthrough 6: Customizing chart elements
• Applying the Concepts

Unit 6: Styling Charts

• Styling charts
• Walkthrough 1: Applying CSS to chart components
• Using gutters
• Walkthrough 2: Using padding, gutters and styling axes
• Styling chart series
• Walkthrough 3: Styling chart series
• Styling chart grid lines
• Walkthrough 4: Adding and styling chart grid lines
• Applying the concepts