Create a Combo Chart and Make Your Chart Draggable

Introduction

Hi all, this article explains how to create a Combo chart. As you all know, the word combo is short for combination, in this case it is a combination of chart types. Which means we can have multiple chart types in one chart.

Background

For the past few months I have been working in a dashboard application, so I encountered a situation to work with a Combo chart in my application. As I began working with the Combo chart, when I finished the work I got a new requirement that a Pie chart must be draggable in the chart area. So I thought of working on that and share it with you all.

What we need first

Include the necessary JavaScript files and UI elements as follows.

<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>
<div id="container" style="min-width: 310px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>
<div id="container2" style="width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 0 auto; position:absolute; top: 120px; left: 150px;"></div>

Combo chart configuration

Our next step is to configure the Combo chart. You can determine the configuration here. 

$(function()
{
    $('#container').highcharts({
        title: {
            text: 'Worked hours in a week'
        },
        xAxis: {
            categories: ['Apples', 'Oranges', 'Pears', 'Bananas', 'Plums']
        },
        series: [{
            type: 'column',
            name: 'Monday',
            data: [3, 2, 1, 3, 4]
        }, {
            type: 'column',
            name: 'Tuesday',
            data: [2, 3, 5, 7, 6]
        }, {
            type: 'column',
            name: 'Wednesday',
            data: [4, 3, 3, 9, 0]
        }, {
            type: 'column',
            name: 'Thursday',
            data: [4, 3, 3, 9, 0]
        }, {
            type: 'column',
            name: 'Friday',
            data: [4, 3, 3, 9, 0]
        }, {
            type: 'spline',
            name: 'Thursday',
            data: [3, 2.67, 3, 6.33, 3.33],
            marker: {
                lineWidth: 2,
                lineColor: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[3],
                fillColor: 'white'
            }
        }]
    });
    $('#container2').highcharts({
        chart: {
            backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0)'
        },
        title: {
            text: null
        },
        exporting: {
            enabled: false
        },
        credits: {
            enabled: false
        },
        series: [{
            type: 'pie',
            name: 'Total',
            data: [{
                name: 'Monday',
                y: 13,
                color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0]
            }, {
                name: 'Tuesday',
                y: 23,
                color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[1]
            }, {
                name: 'Wednesday',
                y: 19,
                color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[2]
            }, {
                name: 'Thursday',
                y: 19,
                color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[2]
            }, {
                name: 'Friday',
                y: 19,
                color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[2]
            }],
            size: 90,
            showInLegend: false,
            dataLabels: {
                enabled: false
            }
        }]
    });
    $("#container2").draggable();
});

Please note that I have given the Pie chart as a separate chart so that we can make it draggable as follows.

$("#container2").draggable();

You can determine the demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/sibeeshvenu/oc1mn8ru/4/

Output

Now if you run this configuration you will get output as follows.

Now the interesting fact is, you can drag the pie to where ever you want it.

Conclusion

I hope you liked this article. Now please share your thoughts and suggestions. It matters a lot.

Kindest Regards,

Sibeesh Venu
Sibeesh Passion