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Grouping dynamic data in highcharts

I'm attempting to create a highchart populated by dynamic data that looks something similar to the following image:
Where the y-axis (technically just the x-axis with the inverted: true tag) is a list of people grouped by location. However, I'm having trouble displaying the data grouped by their locations with the locations being displayed also. The actual view isn't important, just that it neatly groups the data and displays the location.
All I've managed to do so far is simply sort the data and tag the location name to the end of the person, but that's not quite what I want:
I'm aware that this is a relatively easy thing to do with categories and data series, but the only examples of this i could find didn't involve dynamic data. Here is some of my code so far:
function loadChart() {
//calculate height based on number of users displayed, and width based on the panel body width
var chartHeight = users.length * 20 + 75;
var chartWidth = $('#InOutPanelViewId').width();
chart = Highcharts.chart('ChartViewId', {
chart: {
width: chartWidth,
height: chartHeight,
type: 'columnrange',
inverted: true,
spacingLeft: 0
},
title: {
text: null
},
xAxis: {
showEmpty: false,
title: null,
type: 'category',
labels: {
align: 'right',
format: '{value.User}',
style: {
color: 'black',
fontSize: '12pt'
}
}
},
yAxis: {
showEmpty: false,
title: '',
type: 'datetime',
dateTimeLabelFormats: {
second: '%I:%M %P',
minute: '%I:%M %P',
hour: '%I:%M %P',
day: '%I:%M %P',
week: '%I:%M %P',
month: '%I:%M %P',
year: '%I:%M %P'
},
min: startTime.valueOf(),
max: endTime.valueOf(),
plotLines: [{
color: 'grey',
value: time,
width: 1.5
}]
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
credits: {
enabled: false
},
series: [
{ name: "Data", borderWidth: 0, data: chartData }
],
tooltip: {
formatter: function () {
return '<b>' + this.point.jobcode + '</b><br>' + this.point.timespan + '<br>';
}
}
});
}
Where chartData currently looks like this:
chartData[chartData.length] = { name: user, low: displayStart.valueOf(), high: displayEnd.valueOf(), timespan: timeSpan, jobcode: value.JobCodeName, color: colour };
And is populated with dynamic data it pulls from an endpoint. The endpoint does also send back the location, so I'm wondering how I can use this structure and the location i'm sending back to group the data and display it nicely.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!

highcharts - 2 date picker questions

1) I am wondering how I can remove the date picker from the right side of the chart? I really only need the left rangeSelector buttons i.e. 24 hours, 6 hours...
2) is there anyway to turn off the dataLabels when you click on one of the rangeSelector options as well?
When zoomed in to show 5 minutes worth of data the dataLabels are handy, but when looking at 24 hours worth they make the chart quite unusable due to crowding. It would be nice if they could be automagically turned off when I zoomed out.
Huge thanks for your help, if this is indeed possible.
For the second option, i'm looking to toggle the visibility of
plotOptions:{series: {
dataLabels:{
enabled:true,

Fiddle Link
After customization of range selector from Highstock Example
/**
* Load new data depending on the selected min and max
*/
function afterSetExtremes(e) {
var chart = Highcharts.charts[0];
chart.showLoading('Loading data from server...');
$.getJSON('https://www.highcharts.com/samples/data/from-sql.php?start=' + Math.round(e.min) +
'&end=' + Math.round(e.max) + '&callback=?', function (data) {
chart.series[0].setData(data);
chart.hideLoading();
});
}
// See source code from the JSONP handler at https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/blob/master/samples/data/from-sql.php
$.getJSON('https://www.highcharts.com/samples/data/from-sql.php?callback=?', function (data) {
// Add a null value for the end date
data = [].concat(data, [[Date.UTC(2011, 9, 14, 19, 59), null, null, null, null]]);
// create the chart
Highcharts.stockChart('container', {
chart: {
type: 'candlestick',
zoomType: 'x'
},
navigator: {
adaptToUpdatedData: false,
series: {
data: data
}
},
scrollbar: {
liveRedraw: false
},
title: {
text: 'AAPL history by the minute from 1998 to 2011'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Displaying 1.7 million data points in Highcharts Stock by async server loading'
},
rangeSelector: {
buttons: [{ //customization of buttons
type: 'hour',
count: 24,
text: '24h'
}, {
type: 'hour',
count: 6,
text: '6h'
}, {
type: 'minute',
count: 5,
text: '5m'
}],
inputEnabled: false, // it remove datepicker
},
xAxis: {
events: {
afterSetExtremes: afterSetExtremes,
setExtremes: function(e) {
if(typeof(e.rangeSelectorButton)!== 'undefined')
{
if(e.rangeSelectorButton.text=='5m'){
addlables(); //function to add data label
}else{
removelables(); // function to remove data lable
}
}
}
},
minRange: 300 * 1000 // 5min * 1000
},
yAxis: {
floor: 0
},
plotOptions:{
series: {
dataLabels:{
enabled:false,
}
}
},
series: [{
data: data,
dataGrouping: {
enabled: false
}
}]
});
});
function removelables(){
var chart = $('#container').highcharts();
var opt = chart.series[0].options;
opt.dataLabels.enabled = false;
chart.series[0].update(opt);
}
function addlables(){
var chart = $('#container').highcharts();
var opt = chart.series[0].options;
opt.dataLabels.enabled = true;
chart.series[0].update(opt);
}

Highcharts chart date issue

It's the first time I use Highcharts and there is something missing, I'm sure.
I'm trying to translate its calendar months but it seems it doesn't work although everywhere I read this should be the best way.
Highcharts.setOptions({
lang: {
months: ['Janvier', 'Février', 'Mars', 'Avril', 'Mai', 'Juin',
'Juillet', 'Août', 'Septembre', 'Octobre', 'Novembre', 'Décembre']
}
});
var reviewAvgContainer = $('#reviewAvgcontainer');
reviewAvgContainer.highcharts({
credits : {
enabled: false
},
data: {
table: 'reviewAvgData'
},
chart: {
type: 'line'
},
title: {
text: reviewAvgContainer.data('title')
},
xAxis: {
type: 'datetime',
dateTimeLabelFormats: {
month: '%B'
}
},
yAxis: {
min : 0,
max: 10,
allowDecimals: false,
title: {
text: graphTrans.generalGraph['RATINGS']
}
}
});
The problem comes when I add xAxis: {, particularly type: 'datetime'. It seems it doesn't like it and the date appears completely disrupted as following:
Jan 00:00:00.001 00:00:00.002 00:00:00.003 00:00:00.004 00:00:00.005 00:00:00.006
Instead of Février to Août.
When I remove type: 'datetime' everything works but the months are not translated anymore
I have not a clue about what it is. Any idea?

Using hours value with HighCharts

I have some trouble with HighCharts, i can't figure out how to use hours. For now i manage to use day hours (00 to 24) but it stop at 24 and restart at 0 because HighCharts consider that a day is pass. I just want to have an hour value like 1h30 or 55h10 for example.
Here is my chart :
$('#chart2').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'column',
plotBackgroundColor: null,
plotBorderWidth: 0,
borderWidth: 2,
borderRadius: 7,
borderColor: '#D8D8D8',
width:dialogWidth/2,
height:dialogWidth/2+50
},
title: {
text: 'Time Worked per Day'
},
xAxis: {
type: 'category'
},
yAxis: {
type: 'datetime', //y-axis will be in milliseconds
dateTimeLabelFormats: { //force all formats to be hour:minute:second
second: '%H:%M',
minute: '%H:%M',
hour: '%H:%M',
day: '%d %H:%M',
week: '%H:%M',
month: '%H:%M',
year: '%H:%M'
},
title: {
text: 'Hours'
}
},
credits: {
enabled: false
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
plotOptions: {
series: {
borderWidth: 0,
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return Highcharts.dateFormat('%Hh%M',new Date(this.y));
}
}
}
},
tooltip: {
formatter: function() {
return '<b>' + this.series.name +' : </b>' +
Highcharts.dateFormat('%Hh%M',new Date(this.y));
}
},
series: [{
name: 'Hours',
colorByPoint: true,
data: datas
}]
});
Hope you can help.

You don't need to use datetime for figuring this out. Since what you want to know is the number of hours per day, based on a value in milliseconds from your JSON data, you need to treat that value as a number, not a date.
Here's how I solved this problem:
First, I changed how you described the labels in your y-axis. I dropped the datetime type and used the formatter function to show the labels as whole hours. I also defined a tickInterval to show the labels one hour apart from one another.
yAxis: {
labels: {
formatter: function() {
// show the labels as whole hours (3600000 milliseconds = 1 hour)
return Highcharts.numberFormat(this.value/3600000,0);
}
},
title: {
text: 'Hours'
},
tickInterval: 3600000 // number of milliseconds in one hour
},
Next, I updated the code in your tooltip. We're taking your y values and making them whole hours. I set the second parameter in Highcharts.numberFormat to "2" so your toolip values show up with two decimal places (such as "2.50" for two-and-one-half hours).
tooltip: {
formatter: function() {
return '<b>' + this.series.name +' : </b>' +
Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y/3600000,2);
}
},
You can see a working fiddle, based off the sample data you provided, here: http://jsfiddle.net/brightmatrix/kk7odqez/
Here's a screenshot I took of the chart in this fiddle, showing how both the labels and tooltip now appear:
Thank you for the additional information you provided in your comments. That really helped me puzzle this out and get you what I hope is a useful solution.

Loading millions of points with Highcharts

I have a json dataset with millions of points.The structure is like this:
[[1436997600000,7],[....]]
The first number is a data and second one is a value.
I want to plot this in a highchart so that it doesn't take so much time to load the chart and to navigate in it. I followed this example: http://www.highcharts.com/stock/demo/lazy-loading
but can't get it work with my data. It take so much time to load and when I zoom the message 'loading from server' doesn't disappear. Can anyone help me on this please?
JS:
$(function () {
/**
* Load new data depending on the selected min and max
*/
function afterSetExtremes(e) {
var chart = $('#container').highcharts();
chart.showLoading('Loading data from server...');
$.getJSON('http://localhost/public_html/webservice.php/re/pap/' + Math.round(e.min) + '/' + Math.round(e.max), function (data) {
chart.series[0].setData(data);
chart.hideLoading();
});
}
// See source code from the JSONP handler at https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/blob/master/samples/data/from-sql.php
$.getJSON('http://localhost/public_html/webservice.php/re/pap', function (data) {
// Add a null value for the end date
data = [].concat(data, [[Date.UTC(2016, 9, 14, 19, 59), null]]);
// create the chart
$('#container').highcharts('StockChart', {
chart : {
type: 'scatter',
zoomType: 'x'
},
navigator : {
adaptToUpdatedData: false,
series : {
data : data
}
},
scrollbar: {
liveRedraw: false
},
title: {
text: 'AAPL history by the minute from 1998 to 2011'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Displaying 1.7 million data points in Highcharts Stock by async server loading'
},
rangeSelector : {
buttons: [{
type: 'hour',
count: 1,
text: '1h'
}, {
type: 'day',
count: 1,
text: '1d'
}, {
type: 'month',
count: 1,
text: '1m'
}, {
type: 'year',
count: 1,
text: '1y'
}, {
type: 'all',
text: 'All'
}],
inputEnabled: false, // it supports only days
selected : 4 // all
},
xAxis : {
events : {
afterSetExtremes : afterSetExtremes
},
minRange: 3600 * 1000 // one hour
},
yAxis: {
floor: 0
},
series : [{
data : data,
dataGrouping: {
enabled: false
}
}]
});
});
});
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/f0u5c4pg/
Thanks in advance!