Overview
Annotation charts are interactive time series line charts that support annotations. Note that the annotated timeline now automatically uses the Annotation Chart.
Confusion alert: Currently, the Google Annotation Chart is distinct from the annotations that other Google charts (currently area, bar, column, combo, line, and scatter) support. In those charts, the annotations are specified in a separate datatable column, and displayed as short bits of text that users can hover over to see the full annotation text. In contrast, the Annotation Chart displays the full annotations on the right-hand side, as shown below.
Example
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['annotationchart']});
google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);
function drawChart() {
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
data.addColumn('date', 'Date');
data.addColumn('number', 'Kepler-22b mission');
data.addColumn('string', 'Kepler title');
data.addColumn('string', 'Kepler text');
data.addColumn('number', 'Gliese 163 mission');
data.addColumn('string', 'Gliese title');
data.addColumn('string', 'Gliese text');
data.addRows([
[new Date(2314, 2, 15), 12400, undefined, undefined,
10645, undefined, undefined],
[new Date(2314, 2, 16), 24045, 'Lalibertines', 'First encounter',
12374, undefined, undefined],
[new Date(2314, 2, 17), 35022, 'Lalibertines', 'They are very tall',
15766, 'Gallantors', 'First Encounter'],
[new Date(2314, 2, 18), 12284, 'Lalibertines', 'Attack on our crew!',
34334, 'Gallantors', 'Statement of shared principles'],
[new Date(2314, 2, 19), 8476, 'Lalibertines', 'Heavy casualties',
66467, 'Gallantors', 'Mysteries revealed'],
[new Date(2314, 2, 20), 0, 'Lalibertines', 'All crew lost',
79463, 'Gallantors', 'Omniscience achieved']
]);
var chart = new google.visualization.AnnotationChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
var options = {
displayAnnotations: true
};
chart.draw(data, options);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='chart_div' style='width: 900px; height: 600px;'></div>
</body>
</html>Loading
The google.charts.load package name is "annotationchart".
google.charts.load("current", {packages: ['annotationchart']});
The visualization's class name is google.visualization.AnnotationChart.
var visualization = new google.visualization.AnnotationChart(container);
Data Format
You can display one or more lines on your chart. Each row represents an X position on the chart—that is, a specific time; each line is described by a set of one to three columns.
- The first column is of type
dateordatetime, and specifies the X value of the point on the chart. If this column is of typedate(and notdatetime) then the smallest time resolution on the X axis will be one day. - Each data line is then described by a set of one to three additional columns
as described here:
- Y value - [Required, Number] The first column in each set describes the value of the line at the corresponding time from the first column. The column label is displayed on the chart as the title of that line.
- Annotation title - [Optional, String] If a string column
follows the value column, and the
displayAnnotationsoption is true, this column holds a short title describing this point. For instance, if this line represents temperature in Brazil, and this point is a very high number, the title could be "Hottest day on record". - Annotation text - [Optional string] If a second string
column exists for this series, the cell value will be used as additional
descriptive text for this point. You must set the option
displayAnnotationsto true to use this column. You can use HTML tags, if you setallowHtmltotrue; there is essentially no size limit, but note that excessively long entries might overflow the display section. You are not required to have this column even if you have an annotation title column for this point. The column label is not used by the chart. For example, if this were the hottest day on record point, you might say something like "Next closest day was 10 degrees cooler!".
Configuration Options
| Name | |
|---|---|
| allowHtml |
If set to true, any annotation text that includes HTML tags will be rendered as HTML. Type: boolean
Default: false
|
| allValuesSuffix |
A suffix to be added to all values in the legend and tick labels in the vertical axes. Type: string
Default: none
|
| annotationsWidth |
The width (in percent) of the annotations area, out of the entire chart area. Must be a number in the range 5-80. Type: number
Default: 25
|
| colors |
The colors to use for the chart lines and labels. An array of strings. Each element is a string in a valid HTML color format. For example 'red' or '#00cc00'. Type: Array of strings
Default: Default colors
|
| dateFormat |
The format used to display the date information in the top right corner. The format of this field is as specified by the java SimpleDateFormat class. Type: string
Default:
Either 'MMMM dd, yyyy' or 'HH:mm MMMM dd, yyyy', depending on the type of the first column
(date, or datetime, respectively).
|
| displayAnnotations |
If set to false, the chart will hide the annotations table, and the annotations and annotationText will not be visible (the annotations table will also not be displayed if there are no annotations in your data, regardless of this option). When this option is set to true, after every numeric column, two optional annotation string columns can be added, one for the annotation title and one for the annotation text. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| displayAnnotationsFilter |
If set to true, the chart will display a filter control to filter annotations. Use this option when there are many annotations. Type: boolean
Default: false
|
| displayDateBarSeparator |
Whether to display a small bar separator ( | ) between the series values and the date in the legend, where true means yes. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| displayExactValues |
Whether to display a shortened, rounded version of the values on the top of the graph, to save space; false indicates that it may. For example, if set to false, 56123.45 might be displayed as 56.12k. Type: boolean
Default: false
|
| displayLegendDots |
Whether to display dots next to the values in the legend text, where true means yes. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| displayLegendValues |
Whether to display the highlighted values in the legend, where true means yes. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| displayRangeSelector |
Whether to show the zoom range selection area (the area at the bottom of the chart), where false means no. The outline in the zoom selector is a log scale version of the first series in the chart, scaled to fit the height of the zoom selector. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| displayZoomButtons |
Whether to show the zoom buttons ("1d 5d 1m" and so on), where false means no. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
| fill |
A number from 0—100 (inclusive) specifying the alpha of the fill below each line in the line graph. 100 means 100% opaque, and 0 means no fill at all. The fill color is the same color as the line above it. Type: number
Default: 0
|
| legendPosition |
Whether to put the colored legend on the same row with the zoom buttons and the date ('sameRow'), or on a new row ('newRow'). Type: string
Default: 'sameRow'
|
| max |
The maximum value to show on the Y axis. If the maximum data point exceeds this value, this
setting will be ignored, and the chart will be adjusted to show the next major tick mark
above the maximum data point. This will take precedence over the Y axis maximum determined
by This is similar to Type: number
Default: automatic
|
| min |
The minimum value to show on the Y axis. If the minimum data point is less than this value,
this setting will be ignored, and the chart will be adjusted to show the next major tick
mark below the minimum data point. This will take precedence over the Y axis minimum
determined by This is similar to Type: number
Default: automatic
|
| numberFormats |
Specifies the number format patterns to be used to format the values at the top of the graph. The patterns should be in the format as specified by the java DecimalFormat class.
If this option is specified, the Type: String, or a map of number:String pairs
Default: automatic
|
| scaleColumns |
Specifies which values to show on the Y axis tick marks in the graph. The default is to have a single scale on the right side, which applies to both series; but you can have different sides of the graph scaled to different series values. This option takes an array of zero to three numbers specifying the (zero-based) index of the series to use as the scale value. Where these values are shown depends on how many values you include in your array:
When displaying more than one scale, it is advisable to set the Type: Array of numbers
Default: Automatic
|
| scaleFormat |
Number format to be used for the axis tick labels. The default of Type: string
Default: '#'
|
| scaleType |
Sets the maximum and minimum values shown on the Y axis. The following options are available:
If you specify the min and/or max options, they will take precedence over the minimum and maximum values determined by your scale type. Type: string
Default: 'fixed'
|
| table |
Contains options relating to the annotations table. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation:
var options: {
table: {
sortAscending: true,
sortColumn: 1
}
};
Type: object
Default: null
|
| table.sortAscending |
If set to Type: boolean
Default: false
|
| table.sortColumn |
The column index of the annotations table for which the annotations will be sorted. The index must be either 0, for the annotation label column, or 1, for the annotation text column. Type: number
Default: 0
|
| thickness |
A number from 0—10 (inclusive) specifying the thickness of the lines, where 0 is the thinnest. Type: number
Default: 0
|
| zoomEndTime |
Sets the end date/time of the selected zoom range. Type: Date
Default: none
|
| zoomStartTime |
Sets the start date/time of the selected zoom range. Type: Date
Default: none
|
Methods
| Method | |
|---|---|
clearChart() |
Clears the chart, and releases all its allocated resources. Return Type: none
|
draw(data, options, state) |
Draws the chart. Return Type: none
|
getContainer() |
Retrieves a handle to the container element containing the annotation chart. Return Type: Handle to a DOM element
|
getSelection() |
Standard Return Type: Array of selection elements
|
getVisibleChartRange() |
Returns an object with
Return Type:
An object with
start and end properties
|
hideDataColumns(columnIndexes) |
Hides the specified data series from the chart. Accepts one parameter which can be a number or an array of numbers, in which 0 refers to the first data series, and so on. Return Type: none
|
setVisibleChartRange(start, end) |
Sets the visible range (zoom) to the specified range. Accepts two parameters of type
Return Type: none
|
showDataColumns(columnIndexes) |
Shows the specified data series from the chart, after they were hidden using
Return Type: none
|
Events
| Name | |
|---|---|
rangechange |
Fired when the user changes the range slider. The new range endpoints will be available as
google.visualization.events.addListener(chart, 'rangechange', rangechange_handler); function rangechange_handler(e) { console.log('You changed the range to ', e['start'], ' and ', e['end']); } Properties: start, end
|
ready |
The chart is ready for external method calls. If you want to interact with the chart, and
call methods after you draw it, you should set up a listener for this event before you
call the Properties: none
|
select |
Fired when the user clicks a visual entity. To learn what has been selected, call
Properties: none
|
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