Pre Reqs

Pentaho BI Server 2.0x is needed for OFC 2.0. Download and verify a working installation of Pentaho 2.0x. The base directory (bi-server-?e) is now referred to as $PENTAHO_HOME
Desire for nice looking charts

Steps

Download and unzip the "pentahoflashchart-dist-VERSION.zip" somewhere. We'll now refer to this as $OFC_HOME
Copy $OFC_HOME/resource/open-flash-chart.swf to $PENTAHO_HOME/tomcat/webapps/pentaho-styles/images/).
Copy the directory "openflashchart" of $OFC_HOME/samples/ to $PENTAHO_HOME/pentaho-solutions/. End result is that there should be a directory (with files at $PENTAHO_HOME/pentaho-solutions/openflashchart
Copy the file $OFC_HOME/pentahoflashchart-VERSION.jar" to $PENTAHO_HOME/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB-INF/lib/)
Copy the jars in $OFC_HOME/lib to $PENTAHO_HOME/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB-INF/lib/
Start (or Restart) your Pentaho server. You may have to "Update the Solution Repository" from the Admin screen if the Solution doesn't show up.

Optional Steps

Some features of (y_axis right, BarLine, etc) use a patched version of OFC2 SWF file. Copy the the additional .SWF files to $PENTAHO_HOME/tomcat/webapps/pentaho-styles/images/ if you wish to use these features. NOTES: Patch came from http://ofc.x10hosting.com/index.html. For examples, see the Bar Line Chart sample.

Configure the System Listener (stub). Open $PENTAHO_HOME/pentaho-solutions/system/systemListeners.xml and find the
```
<system-listeners>
```
. Then add the openflashchart listener like these:
```
<bean id="OpenFlashChartSystemListener" class="com.google.code.pentahoflashcharts.OpenFlashChartSystemListener">
```
```
</bean>
```

Save it and restart your pentaho server.

Building Your Own Charts

Review the document ComponentUsage and use one of the two chart templates. Definitely consider "copying" and pasting from the samples provided.

Comment by carlosegarcia, Sep 25, 2008

Thanks for this component!!! looks amazing!!... why havent you written a post in pentaho telling about this? and What are the benefits or better why is optional the step about configure System Listeners???, is going to be possible to drill down? or is possible now?

Thanks again

Carlos Garcia

Comment by qinhui99, Oct 09, 2008

The System Listener did the one thing: delete autoumatically the old content items which created by our component .

Comment by carlosegarcia, Oct 10, 2008

I have downloaded the version for pentaho 2.0 from trunk and seems to work well. But i Have a question: Its going to be posible to use OFC1.0 in pentaho 2.0. Cause i have read and in OFC2 it not possible yet to do links. So it would be great if we can still use ofc1 in pentaho 2.0 so we can create links. Thanks

Comment by mohan.cheepu, Jan 26, 2009

Thanks for Guide.But where do i download the pentahoflashchartcomponent-VERSION.zip.

Comment by qinhui99, Jan 26, 2009

Pls wait for several days. We are testing and fixing bugs.

Comment by rohermosilla, Jan 31, 2009

i install the version for pentaho 2.0 (over pentaho 2.0 stable), but this show the next error:

Error: Base.ERROR_0002 - Component execution failed - java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (com.google.code.pentahoflashcharts.OpenFlashChartComponent)

Comment by rohermosilla, Jan 31, 2009

I solved this problem copying the libs from your repository. I hope help some body witdh the same problem.

Thanks...

Comment by masc1601, Feb 24, 2009

I have the same problem. I mean the bad version error. Please. How did you fix this problem...

Comment by dtmurrayg, Mar 20, 2009

I encountered the following problems:

ofc_two_series_barchart.xaction Error: es_14? Error: Base.ERROR_0002 - Ejecución fallida del Componente - java.lang.NumberFormatException?: For input string: "" (com.google.code.pentahoflashcharts.OpenFlashChart? Component)

ofc_barLinechart.xaction Error: es_14? Error: Base.ERROR_0002 - Ejecución fallida del Componente - java.lang.NumberFormatException?: For input string: "" (com.google.code.pentahoflashcharts.OpenFlashChart? Component)

Any advice you may provide posted to thread http://forums.pentaho.org/showthread.php?t=68550 will be highly appreciated.

Comment by dano88sham, Apr 12, 2009

hi I'm trying to integrate flash charts, but the version i'm using is different "1.7.0" so i can't find where to put the files can anyone help?

Comment by raja1983.ksr, Apr 17, 2009

hi please anyone help me..

am having the bad version class error...

"Error: Base.ERROR_0002 - Component execution failed - java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError?: Bad version number in .class file (com.google.code.pentahoflashcharts.OpenFlashChartComponent?)"

where can i copy the jars from the repository.....

Comment by meringeorge303, Apr 27, 2009

where can i find this following zip file -"pentahoflashchart-dist-VERSION.zip" I looked at the download section is it the same as "pentahoflashchart-samples-0.1-r132.zip" i can't seem to find most of the jar files please help

Comment by jmcuin, Sep 08, 2009

Hi everybody, I'm having the bad version problem too but I still can't find the openflashcharts-dist-Version.zip. Do you know where can I find it please? I'd appreciate your help, thanks

Comment by brantlevinson, Sep 24, 2009

I vote that you bring this project back to life! Flash charts is the way to go, ChartBeans? doesn't have flash and/or animation. Open Flash Chart 2.0 is the best open source flash graphs that I've found and it's LGPL! Please bring this project back.