Overview

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 Charts 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. #2406741: How to create ['#raw_options'] array for highcharts.
2. #2395263: How to show X-axis values using year ranges like 2001-2002?.
3. #2364091: Stacking column/bar charts.
4. #2304323: Easy way to add custom Charts properties.
5. #2294491: Simple COUNT.
6. #2275153: Settings for specific line chart options?.
7. #2274527: How to render a chart without headers, footers and blocks?.
8. #2209467: Google Charts only: Pass library-specific options via existing #raw_options.
9. #2175903: Use SQL results as dymanic values in '#data' element.

And some more interesting HowTo questions from Drupal Answers (*):

1. How to set properties for a specific chart only (using the views integration)?
2. How to generate chart from Views Aggretation Plus?
3. How to mix charts views and table views on the same page?
4. How to set options for only some charts using the views integration?
5. How to group access log timestamps (minute,hour,day, etc) so that these are chartable?
6. ... What else?

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