Formatting legend in Anychart included with Application Express - oracle

Question

I am trying to format the legend within Application Express Anychart Flash chart. Here is the relevant XML section:
<legend enabled="true" position="Right" align="Near" elements_layout="Vertical">
<title enabled="true">
<text>Legend</text>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</title>
<icon>
<marker enabled="true" />
</icon>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</legend>
I am simply trying to add two line items, Sales and Tickets, to describe the lines in my chart with a correctly colored line icons but instead I get two generic entries - Value and Value. Can anyone help me sort out the proper code for this XML?
When I change it to the following:
<legend enabled="true" position="Right" align="Near" elements_layout="Vertical" ignore_auto_item="True">
<title enabled="true">
<text>Legend</text>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</title>
<items>
<item>
<text>This is a test</text>
</icon></item>
<item><text>Item 2</text>
</item>
</items>
<icon>
<marker enabled="true" />
</icon>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</legend>
This gives me the two series I want but no icon.
Please forgive my ignorance here. I still am not getting the simple legend I want. I am using two series queries, Total_Sales and Total_Tickets:
SELECT NULL Link,
trunc(tix.timestamp) AS label,
sum(tixp.Price) AS value
FROM LS_tickets tix LEFT OUTER JOIN
LS_ticket_prices tixP
ON tixp.series_prefix = tix.ticket_series
WHERE tix.event_id = :P145_event_id
and tix.event_id = tixp.event_id
and tix.voided_flag != 'Y'
GROUP BY trunc(tix.timestamp)
ORDER BY trunc(tix.timestamp) ASC
And
SELECT NULL Link,
trunc(tix.timestamp) AS label,
sum( tixp.quantity ) AS value
FROM LS_tickets tix LEFT OUTER JOIN
LS_ticket_prices tixP
ON tixp.series_prefix = tix.ticket_series
WHERE tix.event_id = :P145_event_id
and tix.event_id = tixp.event_id
and tix.voided_flag != 'Y'
GROUP BY trunc(tix.timestamp)
ORDER BY 1
But I am getting an empty legend whenever i try and add ICON information specific for each label as follows:
<legend enabled="true" position="Right" align="Near" elements_layout="Vertical" ignore_auto_item="True">
<title enabled="true">
<text>Legend</text>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</title>
<icon><marker enabled="true" /></icon>
<items>
<item source="Series" series="Total_Sales">
<text>{%Icon} Sales</text>
</item>
<item source="Series" series="Total_Tickets"><text>{%Icon} Tickets</text>
</item>
</items>
<font family="Tahoma" size="10" color="0x000000" />
</legend>

Answer 1

It depends on what data structure you are using. You can specify what data should be shown in legend using these xml settings.
Each automatic item have attributes source which can be "Points" or "Series" and series, that specifies the series name:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/index.html?legend-text-formatting.html#automatic-items
In case of custom line items you can add your own items with any information:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/index.html?legend-text-formatting.html#custom-items
Here is a list of all keywords that you can use to format the items values:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/index.html?legend-text-formatting.html#keywords
it looks like the issue occurs while apex working with the series, all of them are created with the name set to "VALUE. Here is a solution for the similar problem:
https://community.oracle.com/message/12637203#12637203