Surely we can't be the only ones who are disappointed with the newest charting engine in CF11? Yes, ZingCharts can be cool and the plethora of style options gives us total freedom to build the perfect chart. However, that is also the root of the problem! Since CF8, CFCHART has been adequate for our needs. It produced good looking chart images and was just flexible enough for us to produce what we needed while staying simple enough for us to put together quickly and move on in development. This has been true up through CF10....
We just installed CF11 on our test server and it has DESTROYED every chart we produce using the same code we've had in place for years.
Custom chart colors: gone. Readability: hit or miss. 3D angles and depths: changed. Proper fitting of images in pages: gone. Legends specifically told to hide: now showing, and showing incorrectly. Labels: FUBAR.
What the hell?! Who was in charge of the backward compatibility of this charting engine? The least that should have been done was to give us a default style similar to the old one.
Again, we liked the simplicity the old engine gave us. And, while it would be cool to spend some time with the ZingChart Editor creating super awesome charts, we don't have the time to mess with the minutiae of all the little details for these charts. But it looks like I have no choice. So, instead of proceeding with our upgrade to CF11 we have to stop and reconfigure hundreds of CFCHART tags!
Here are some examples of our mangled charts that have had NO CODE CHANGES from CF10 to CF11:
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OK, rant over. Have to waste time fixing this bullsh*t...