follow up question
Do you know the default colors that CF uses for the color of each bar?
(orange, green, blue, tanish, greyblue)

If I had 5 cfchartseries, I could control the color, but just looping through 1 I don't. I can't user seriesColor as that applies the same color to all bars. I can't use colorList as that doesn't apply to bar charts.

http://www.pfrentals.com/test.cfm

It is controlled by an xml file. IIRC, the default for bar charts is C:\ColdFusion8\charting\styles\default.xml . In the file it defines colors for series 0 through 27



You can make a copy of the xml file and customize the colors. Then place the xml file in one of your web directories and call it using cfchart's style attribute.

cool - thanks

THANK YOU! for all your time and help, believe it or not I did learn a thing or two

You are welcome. If you are ever curious about the charting engine CF uses, try out the built in WebCharts3D utility. It is an interesting tool.

C:\ColdFusion8\charting\webcharts.bat
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/graphing_06.html

Unfortunatly, I don't think I have access to it, at least that is what a HostMySite tech support person told me once upon a time when I asked about it. I wish I did, I've used it in the past and it really helped.

Yes, I would be very surprised if a host allowed you access to their copy. But you can at least test it locally. Assuming you have the CF8 developer version installed on your computer.