Charter - Dynamic URLs

Shaking The Habitual STH Examples
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Hi all,

I’ve just pushed out an update to Charter (v.1.3.1) that adds a nice little feature that I thought I’d share…

A couple of weeks back I was approached by a user who asked if it was possible to use a variable to populate the csv url that Charter uses to link to a data source. He was wanting to build a single page that his sales agents would access and see their own sales charts (amongst other things). He maintained a Google Sheet for each of his sales agents (that were themselves updated from some other source using zapier) and wanted to point Charter to the appropriate Google Sheet depending on a query string in the url (e.g. ?agentID=1999). v1.3.1 now has a function that allows this to happen.

View this example web page (and be sure to select different sales agents from the page to see the charts change). Remember all happens on the same RW page with a single Charter stack.

It’s probably a bit of a niche/advanced feature but I think it could definitely be useful for some. Any questions please let me know.

Also, using Charter, I have begun to recreate / replicate various interesting charts that I have found online and will publish these soon. They should act as a good point of reference about what Charter can do. If you have any chart examples that you would like to see built in Charter then please let me know (preference will be given to those that have a link to the data - e.g. csv file).

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Very cool. Good stuff.

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Great update / feature Stuart. Thank you

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Love this Charter stack but recently tried linking to Google Sheets as data source. Seeing different results between local csv and google sheets on very simple table (same csv used on both). Only 2 columns coming in from Google Sheets but get all 5 if I store it in Resources - Charter stack config is very basic few clicks on both. Any ideas more than welcome. Thanks.

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Hi @Murph -

That sounds odd. If anything I would expect the Google Sheet one not to work at all as Google made some recent changes (see the troubleshooting guide).

If you can share a url (or message me with a demo project file) I can certainly take a look. There’s no known issue that would cause what you are describing.

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Hi Stuart, thanks for a very speedy reply. Much appreciated. The Google sheet integration on your troubleshooting link solved my issues. Apologies for not getting that far myself and thanks again for your help. Keep up the good work. Cracking stack!

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