oh word

So we shall see who was actually correct I guess 🙂

ok

I'll be curious to hear your impressions of iCharts, jokell. We ran into a lot of problems with it at my last place

yeah, i honestly don't recall that part of the presentation, but i had that in my notes

i've looked at iCharts a few times, wasn't impressed

@bednar I’ll let you know. They’ve been hounding me since SuiteWorld last year so I’m letting them give me a demo now

It felt like a beta product a year ago

In that we'd have to regularly redeploy the portlets because the searches would pull wrong data

they're one of the most aggressive companies that's for sure

and the only way to fix that 'caching' issue was to push everything out again. We ultimately ditched it in favor of an inhouse solution using the Google Charts API

They were ramping up staff and focusing a lot more on the product though, so it's probably completely a new experience a year later

(And the only people who really were interested in it were our sales people, who wanted to be able to show who was doing the best in terms of bookings)

I would also be interested in iCharts feedback; they come to our user group a lot and are usually pitching their partner program to me

Actually was pretty cool, especially if you do a lot of saved searches. I imagine our management team would love it. But @bednar - using the google charts api is interesting. Hadn’t thought of that.

Google charts actually gave correct data

we lost trust with iCharts and never got it back.

Burn me once, shame on you kind of thing

I'm playing around with Chart.js while I learn 2.0's Dashboard SuiteApp functionality

that sounds fun

I think the biggest advantage of iCharts is that you can create a massive search that includes a ton of data but then have the chart itself break it down to what you need. We could replace a few of our biggest searches that are linked together with a single search. I’m guessing with google charts or charts.js you’d have to feed it the exact data you want to show.

Google Charts we took the same exact searches that iCharts ran off of

and ran it through the charting API

Unless it's changed you'd still need to build the original search in NS to feed to IC

pretty sure you do - they have prebuilt ones though, not sure if they're useful

You still build the original search, but I can build one search that has 30 different columns, but only have iCharts show data from 2 of the columns. Plus it can be filtered without having to add filters to the main search.

Yeah, we built that functionality out too

Gotcha

even had it for sales reports where you'd click on their bar in the chart and it'd pull two or three new searches and reports into the portlet

The only reason we rebuilt it is, again, the searches would either fail to run in iCharts or they'd misinterpret the data from NetSuite