Forena HowTos

HowTo pages are short, highly-targeted articles on how to accomplish a specific task. They are contributed by the community in response to a need for concise information. HowTo pages differ from Tutorials in that they are most often a single page document and directly relate to either a certain function of a module, a goal-based task, or a "Did you know the Forena module can do this?" paragraph.

For example, where a tutorial might describe the process of creating and theming charts, a HowTo article would explain the steps needed to display a block below the main content of a page that contains a chart about the data contained in some of the fields of that specific node.

Some issues requests to illustrate some questions that perfectly fit into these HowTos:

1. #2405461: Graph in x axis has too many values.
2. #2364427-7: Renderer for Charts and Graphs APIs. ^(A)
3. #1977356: How to add the the date selector widget to a parameter (if date module is enabled)?
4. #1230850: HowTo access system parameters such as userid?
5. #1114086: How to transform a timestamp stored in a database to some other date format?
6. #1113898: Parameter Fields - Multi-select.

(A): contains an example of a custom module to answer the question How to use Forena for creating charts using either the d3.js library or the SVG Graph library?

Some more (rather old) issues requests that do not apply to recent D7 versions of Forena anymore (but only to the D6 version of it):

1. #1220040: How to retrofit SQL changes in existing reports?
2. ... Anything else?

Some more interesting HowTo questions from Drupal Answers (*)

1. Using Drupal to display simple data from an external database.
2. Fetching drupal articles, tags, image directly from database.
3. How to fetch HTML created via a Forena report and store it as a node?
4. Exporting results with Views Data Export not working as intended.
5. MSSql or SQL Server Wrapper for custom module?
6. ... What else fits here?

(*): Licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required.

Some more suggestions about Drupal Answers: there are already quite a few questions there that have been tagged with the Forena tag also.

More links to some live demo / showcases.

1. Get started with creating your own Forena based SVG Graphs.
2. How does a 'Master Summary with drill down charts' look like?
3. ... What else fits here?

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