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flotjs labels on tooltips for categories plugin

I had been using awesome flot.js charting library on my results app. The charts were easy to generate and I included categories plugin to replace x-axis labels to words rather than integer values.

But I faced some issues while enabling tooltips and having them display the labels rather than x coordinates. I checked up the source code.

[caption id="attachment_35" align="aligncenter" width="646"]flotjs categories plugin docs getAxes()??[/caption]

plot.getAxes() method described in the documentation was giving me an undefined method error.I searched the docs, searched on Google, stackexchange etc.. but to no avail.

Then I found solution thanks to firebug.

I did a console.log() of the whole item object and began inspecting. I could see few objects that looked promising. Upon further inspection I found a way to map a value back to its label.

[caption id="attachment_34" align="aligncenter" width="924"]dumping whole object Dumping entire item object in firebug[/caption]

I found 3 ways

  1. item.series.data[previousPoint][0]

  2. item.series.xaxis.categories

  3. item.series.xaxis.ticks[previousPoint].label


Note:-- previousPoint is the point reference on x-axis.

Problem Solved.

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