Column graph to replace StatusBoard by Panic. (JSON data into graphs)

[looolz]

We’ve been using Panics Statusboard for years. And love it. Panic decided last year to discontinue the product. So we’re switching to MM now. What StatusBoard did really nicely was having a “module” that you configure to a JSON file path. And it will render the graph data into nice column graphs, like this:

If there’s only one value/digit, it displays it as a number. But if there is multiple datapoints, it will display that as a graph. And a simple flag setting lets you configure between columns graphs or regular graphs.

The data input format looks like this:

{
  "graph" : {
    "title" : "Soft Drink Sales",
    "datasequences" : [
      {
        "title" : "X-Cola",
        "datapoints" : [
          { "title" : "2008", "value" : 22 },
          { "title" : "2009", "value" : 24 },
          { "title" : "2010", "value" : 25.5 },
          { "title" : "2011", "value" : 27.9 },
          { "title" : "2012", "value" : 31 },
        ]
      },
      {
        "title" : "Y-Cola",
        "datapoints" : [
          { "title" : "2008", "value" : 18.4 },
          { "title" : "2009", "value" : 20.1 },
          { "title" : "2010", "value" : 24.8 },
          { "title" : "2011", "value" : 26.1 },
          { "title" : "2012", "value" : 29 },
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Tonnes of more info here:
https://library.panic.com/statusboard/graph_tutorial/