CFChart as JPG

[akulla]

Greetings,

I am producing a chart (JPG) for people to use an a document, however you can't right click and save Image. Is there a way to do this.

Roger

[MikerRoo]

Actually you can right click and save, it's just user hostile.

Here are some of the problems and workarounds:
1) If your chart has mouse-over details (the default), then the user has to
move the mouse to a background part of the plot to right-click save the image.
User's will not figure this out on their own and the will not be impressed
with the "solution".
You can turn off mouse-over by calling <cfchart> with tipStyle = "none" but
then you lose the nice mouse-over details.

2) You right click and the browser wants to save "GraphData.cfm". If you go
ahead and save it, renaming the file to "MyPlot.jpg", it will usually save the
image ok.
Again, users are not impressed.
One workaround is to bypass GraphData.cfm altogether. GraphData.cfm is a
total abortion and causes way more problems than it fixes.
One recipe for bypassing it is at
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-a11.htm#wp2619630[/url]
-- in the user comments.
The recipe is for CF6. It needs a slight modification for CF7. Let me know
if you want the details.

3) You right click, and get an error or "expired image" or an empty file.
This is due to the many problems with plot caching.
There are some hotfixes released for CF7 that help. Also, bypassing
GraphData.cfm largely solves this problem.

Regards,
-- MikeR

[emmim44]

Simply. open the page..then save the page...after saving the file...you will see page folder...there should an image there/...here u goo