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Hi,

I need to display multiple lines of data on a javascript chart. I successfully display the chart, but for some reason the label just isn't displaying.

I have tried multiple examples but I don't find exactly what I need to do.

What I have tried:

<head>
<script>var chart = new CanvasJS.Chart("chartContainer", {
                title: {
                    text: "Data"
                },
                data: [
                    {
                        label: "Name1",
                        type: "line",
                        dataPoints: [
                            { x: 10, y: 21 },
                            { x: 11, y: 25 },
                            { x: 12, y: 30 }


                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        label: "Name2",
                        type: "line",
                        dataPoints: [
                            { x: 10, y: 31 },
                            { x: 11, y: 20 },
                            { x: 12, y: 15 }

                        ]
                    }
                ]
            });
            chart.render();</script>
</head>

<body>
    <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
    <div id="chartContainer" style="height: 300px; width: 100%;"></div>
    <script src="https://canvasjs.com/assets/script/canvasjs.min.js"></script>
</body>
Posted
Updated 29-Apr-21 3:21am

I see the following works fine:
JavaScript
var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");

var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
  type: 'scatter',
  data: {
    datasets: [
    	{
        label: 'Chart 1',
        data: [{x: 1, y: 2}, {x: 2, y: 4}, {x: 3, y: 8},{x: 4, y: 16}],
        showLine: true,
        fill: false,
        borderColor: 'rgba(0, 200, 0, 1)'
    	},
      {
        label: 'Chart 2',
        data: [{x: 1, y: 3}, {x: 3, y: 4}, {x: 4, y: 6}, {x: 6, y: 9}],
        showLine: true,
        fill: false,
        borderColor: 'rgba(200, 0, 0, 1)'
    	}
    ]
  },
  options: {
    tooltips: {
      mode: 'index',
      intersect: false,
    },
    hover: {
      mode: 'nearest',
      intersect: true
    },
    scales: {
      yAxes: [{
        ticks: {
          beginAtZero:true
        }
      }]
    },
  }
});

HTML
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.7.2/Chart.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="myChart"></canvas>

Reference: Chart.js - displaying multiple line charts using multiple labels - Stack Overflow[^]
 
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For multi line chart in MVC using chart.js (dynamic)

Create a Class LabelPoint, Reference your X and Y points on the graph

so the data looks something like this   [ { Label : "ABC" , DataPoint :[ { X: '222' , Y :60 } ] } ]


It will be an array of object, in that object there will be an array of object.

ASP.NET


//DataContract for Serializing Data - required to serve in JSON format
	[DataContract]
	public class LabelPoint
	{
		//Explicitly setting the name to be used while serializing to JSON.
		[DataMember(Name = "label")]
		public string Label { get; set; }

		public DataPoint DataPoint { get; set; }
	}
	[DataContract]
	public class DataPoint
	{
		[DataMember(Name = "x")]
		public List<string> X { get; set; }

		//Explicitly setting the name to be used while serializing to JSON.
		[DataMember(Name = "y")]
		public List<string> Y { get; set; }


	}

Controller Code
List dataPoints = detailIM
                     .GroupBy(p => p.Product,
                    (k, c) => new LabelPoint()
                    {
                        DataPoint = new DataPoint { X = c.Select(y => 
                          y.Quantity).ToList(), Y = c.Select(cs => cs.Date).ToList() },
                        Label = k
                    }
                   ).ToList();

                ViewBag.DataPoints = dataPoints;


on your cshtml, retrieve the values

var data = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(ViewBag.DataPoints));


var dataSet = [];  var qty= []; var dates= [];
       // loop through the data and get the Label as well as get the created dates and qty for the array of object
       for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {

           qty.push(data[i].DataPoint.Y);
           for (var d = 0; d < data[i].DataPoint.X.length; d++) {
               // we're setting this on the X- axis as the  label so we need to make sure that we get all the dates between searched dates
               dates.push(data[i].DataPoint.X[d]);
           }
            // we create an array of object, set the Lable which will display LocationName, The data here is the Quantity
               dataSet.push(
               {
                   label: data[i].Label,
                   data: data[i].DataPoint.Y,
                   fill: false,
                   borderColor: poolColors(qty.length),
                   pointBorderColor: "black",
                   pointBackgroundColor: "white",
                   lineTension: 0.1
               }
           );
       }
       // this is the options to set the Actual label like Date And Quantity
       var options = {
           scales: {
                xAxes: [{
                scaleLabel: {
                display: true,
                labelString: "Date",
                fontSize: 20
                 },
                 }],

           yAxes: [{
               ticks: {
                   beginAtZero:true
               },
               scaleLabel: {
                    display: true,
                    labelString: 'Quantity',
                    fontSize: 20
                }
           }]
           }
       };


// we need to remove all duplicate values from the CreatedDate array
     var uniq = [ ...new Set(dates) ];


<canvas id="myChart"></canvas>


var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext('2d');
      // build the chart
      var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
          type: 'line',
          data: {
              labels: uniq,
              datasets:dataSet
          },
           options: options
      });


    /// will get get random colors each time
    function dynamicColors() {
    var r = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
    var g = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
    var b = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
    return "rgba(" + r + "," + g + "," + b + ", 0.5)";
    }

    /// will display random colors each time
    function poolColors(a) {
    var pool = [];
    for(i = 0; i < a; i++) {
        pool.push(dynamicColors());
    }
    return pool;
}
 
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Comments
Richard Deeming 29-Apr-21 10:27am    
The question makes no mention of ASP.NET, MVC or otherwise. And it was already solved last August.

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