Dynamic Chart with multiple series is missing categoryAxis text

[don]

My issue is with the categoryAxis not showing the text.  Which becomes an issue when trying to understand the graphing points.  I have included my code below with a small sample dataset to show what is going on.  Thank you!

var chartOptions = {
theme: "",
seriesDefaults: {
type: "line"
},
title: {
text: ""
},
legend: {
position: "bottom"
},
series: "",
categoryAxis: {
field: "category"
}
};

//Set Chart Data
chartOptions.series = dataSetContents.Series;
chartOptions.seriesDefaults = { type: $("#chartType").val() };
chartOptions.theme = $("#colorType").val();
chartOptions.title = { text: $("#dimensionsType").val() + " BY " + $("#dataType").val() };

function createChart() {
$("#chart").kendoChart(
$.extend(true, {}, chartOptions)
);
}

my series is set up as the following:
{
    name: "2008-2010"
    data: [{
       category: "2008"
       value: "500"
    }]
}

full text is here:
{"Series":[{"name":"2008-2010","data":[{"category":"2010 - Q01","value":733},{"category":"2009 - Q02","value":921},{"category":"2008 - Q01","value":690},{"category":"2009 - Q01","value":1584},{"category":"2008 - Q03","value":1778},{"category":"2008 - Q04","value":359},{"category":"2008 - Q02","value":1308},{"category":"2009 - Q04","value":64},{"category":"2007 - Q03","value":20},{"category":"2009 - Q03","value":411},{"category":"2010 - Q02","value":17},{"category":"2007 - Q04","value":19},{"category":"2007 - Q02","value":11},{"category":"2007 - Q01","value":5}]},{"name":"2009 Data","data":[{"category":"2008 - Q01","value":6230},{"category":"2008 - Q02","value":7635},{"category":"2008 - Q03","value":4294},{"category":"2007 - Q03","value":101},{"category":"2007 - Q02","value":86},{"category":"2007 - Q04","value":65},{"category":"2007 - Q01","value":63},{"category":"2009 - Q02","value":8}]}]}

[Hristo Germanov]

Hello don,

You need to bind your chart via dataSource because the category field works only with it. I think that you should do something similar like this: http://jsbin.com/efabuy/5/edit

I hope this helps you.

Kind regards,
Hristo Germanov
the Telerik team

[don]

Thank you for the quick response. I tried the route you suggested originally, however, my issue was when I began to have multiple series as I do with this json object:

{"Series":[{"name":"2009 Data","data":[{"category":"2008","value":18159},{"category":"2007","value":315},{"category":"2009","value":8}]},{"name":"2008-2010","data":[{"category":"2010","value":750},{"category":"2009","value":2980},{"category":"2008","value":4135},{"category":"2007","value":55}]}]}

Would you make any modifications based on the above object?

I am trying to make it so I can add a series based on a user selection of multiple datasets.

Thank you

[Hristo Germanov]

Hi don,

In your case you need to pass this categories to the chart's categoryAxis.

All the best,
Hristo Germanov
the Telerik team

[Gordon]

This doesn't help when the Category axis contains hundreds of date-time values.
Can this functionality be considered for future versions of the kendo charts?

[Hristo Germanov]

Hi Gordon,

Unfortunately this task is not easy for implementation. Could you please try to rewrite your data like in this example? I think that this is the best approach in your case.

Regards,
Hristo Germanov
Telerik