Re: How to draw an organization chart dynamically using JSP ,Oracle

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Posted by DZA on December 22, 2003 at 13:23:4:

I'm essentially trying to do the same thing, but instead of an org. chart I'm trying to illustrate the overall parent-child-grandchild-etc. relationship(s) in a workorder chain. From what I've been able to see, VML (Vector Markup Language) gives (among a HUGE number of other things) the ability to simply draw a diagonal line on the document screen (which was left out of simple HTML for *some* reason.) It's "scriptable", and "scalable" -- I don't have any examples of my own (yet) but the starting point for my VML adventure was www.codeproject.com/html/vml101.asp?target=draw%7Cline%7Cvbscript and that led to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/vml

If your audience is willing to use MS Explorer (mine is) then you probably won't have any (major) problems building such a chart dynamically from data stored in Oracle and *either* scripting language seems to be equally useful (AFAIK Netscape doesn't support VML -- <RANT> if that's true it's a shame since VML is really just an extension of XML, which is NOT a Microsoft "product" and should, by now, be embraced UNIVERSALLY... </RANT>) Anyway, I just found that first link late on Friday and I'm already ready to try scripting my on-screen components such that when I drag one of them around on-screen the line(s) stay connected to the other object(s) above and/or below it (ever use Visio? kinda like that...I'd've just used Visio in the first place, but I didn't want to have to mess with the whole deployment issue, etc.), so the documentation is (unusually, for MS) pretty clear.

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