Is there any methods to get properties of a chart?

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I am working on a project to edit chart in a document. While the data of chart is from a database, if the data was changed, the chart would to be updated. However, sometimes I need to get all properties of a chart and recreate it.
But I found the apichart(ONLYOFFICE Api Documentation - ApiChart) doesn’t have any methods to get properties of a chart. I wonder whether there is other way, or new version of onlyoffice would provide such feature.
thanks

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Hello @wingnet

Could you please describe your general workflow to get better understanding of it?
If possible please provide a video demonstration of the problem that you are facing.

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thank you for the reply.
These are the steps of operation:
1 the user will open a web page containing an onlyoffice document.
2 A button in the page will be clicked by the user.
3 the js of the page will fetch data from backend service.
4 js of the page will insert a bar chart filled with data into the onlyoffice document.
The above 4 steps are fullfilled correctly.
However, if the user changed the title of the chart and I just wanted to created a same one, there would be a problem: I can’t get the new title of the chart.
So is there any methods to get properties of a chart?
thanks Constantine

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Hello @wingnet

Are you trying to perform these actions via plugin/macro?

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Not exactly.
Through a connector to CallCommand().
Anyway, if I could get properties of a chart in macro or plug-ins, that would be helpful.

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Hello again @wingnet

Sorry for the late reply.

Do I understand it correctly that you want to get the properties and send it to the backend service?

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Hello @Constantine
Getting the properties of a chart will be ok.
Thanks

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Hello @wingnet

I’m looking for the possible solution. I will update this thread once any news come up.

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Hello again @wingnet

Unfortunately, at the moment there is no way to get such properties from the methods of API of Document Builder by plugins API.
We have suggestion number 61876 to add such functionality registered in our internal tracker, I have added your request to it and we are working towards implementing it.

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thanks @Constantine for the response.
However, we have found a way to work around.
But, still, new api of gettting properties of chart would be better.

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Glad to hear that you found a workaround.