# Ui\_chart alternate (Apex chart ?) Just want the zoom feature in the graph

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**Created:** [24 March 2023 01:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-chart-alternate-apex-chart-just-want-the-zoom-feature-in-the-graph/76888 "2023-03-24T01:35:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 March 2023 14:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-chart-alternate-apex-chart-just-want-the-zoom-feature-in-the-graph/76888/5 "2023-03-24T14:33:18Z")

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I am not template node literate  
The example given has the data built in the template node itself. I need to generate a line graph with external data. Will take me for ever to decipher that.  
I was also exploring the same in another thread where a node was used to draw a graph, but i could not understand how to feed the data and what syntax was used. The creator of node has not been active since many years. So dead end.

[https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-uplot-chart-from-stored-data-mysql-moved-to-grafana-iframe-now/75685?u=smanjunath211](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-uplot-chart-from-stored-data-mysql-moved-to-grafana-iframe-now/75685)

I ended up using grafana with an i frame. But it has its own drawbacks.

So ...

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