Last night I blogged about a typo in the CF Reference in regards to charts and markers. The docs make reference to a marker style called 'letter', whereas the real setting is 'letterx'. The user I was communicating with about this issue asked if there was someway to use other letters. So for example, letterA or letterB. While you can't do that, I did discover that the Chart Editor has an option to specify a graphic for the marker.
If you expand the Elements attribute in the editor, then Series, you can edit the Marker attribute. This is a per series setting so you want to add an index value in the blank field and click Add before modifying the settings. The index value must be a number. I used 0 as I assumed that it would match the 1st series in my chart:
I selected Bitmap and picked an image. The XML generated from this change is:
<series index="0">
<marker type="Bitmap" bitmap="/Users/ray/Desktop/unicorn4.gif"/>
</series>
Here is a full example. The XML is a bit verbose and you don't need a lot of what is in here, but the final example is nice.
<cfsavecontent variable="cxml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<frameChart is3D="false">
<frame xDepth="3" yDepth="1" leftAxisPlacement="Back" isHStripVisible="true">
<background minColor="#FDFEF6"/>
</frame>
<xAxis>
<labelFormat pattern="#,##0.###"/>
<parseFormat pattern="#,##0.###"/>
</xAxis>
<legend isVisible="false">
<decoration style="None"/>
</legend>
<elements place="Default" shape="Line" drawShadow="true">
<morph morph="Grow"/>
<series index="0">
<marker type="Bitmap" bitmap="/Users/ray/Desktop/unicorn4.gif"/>
</series>
</elements>
</frameChart>
</cfsavecontent>
<cfchart style="#cxml#" scalefrom="0" scaleto="100">
<cfchartseries type="line" seriesColor="##FF0099">
<cfchartdata item="col1" value="20">
<cfchartdata item="col2" value="30">
<cfchartdata item="col3" value="10">
<cfchartdata item="col4" value="80">
<cfchartdata item="col5" value="60">
</cfchartseries>
</cfchart>
And the result? The most beautiful chart in the world.
