Setting chart properties for Pie and Donut charts

You need to set chart properties for the charts that you add to a widget.

Procedure

Setting Chart properties

  • Complete the following steps to set chart properties for Pie and Donut charts:
    1. On the widget page, click the Set PropertiesSet Properties icon icon.

      The Set Properties window opens.

    2. In the navigation pane of the Chart tab, click Chart.
    3. From the Radius field, select a radius for the chart.

      The default value is Medium.

    4. The Show %age on Slice and Show Tooltip check boxes are selected by default. Also, by default, the precision for all the tooltip values is set to 2.

      You can enter any other precision value.

      For example, if you enter 3, then all the tooltip values are rounded off to three decimal places. So, a value 1.4527 is displayed as 1.453.

      If you don’t want any of the values to be displayed, then you can clear the selections.

    5. In the Value field, enter a corresponding column name that is used in the manual data definition.
      Note: The Value field is displayed only for Gauge chart.

Setting Series properties

  • Complete the following steps to set chart properties for Pie and Donut charts:
    1. In the navigation pane of the Chart tab, click Series.
    2. In the Value field, enter the column name from the manual data definition preview. Enter the column name for which you want to plot a Pie or Donut chart.
    3. In the Slice Labels field, enter the column name from the manual data definition preview. Enter the column name that contains labels for each slice of the chart.
    4. From the Sort order list, select a display order for the data.

      The default value is Ascending, which displays increasing data values in clockwise direction.

    5. To change the display format of the Slice Labels data that is in Epoch or ISO 8601 format, select the Change 'Slice Labels' display format if source data is in Epoch or ISO 8601 time format checkbox, and complete the following steps:
      1. From the Source Data Unit list, select the format of the source data.
      2. From the Display Format lists, select the format in which the date and time must be displayed for slice labels.

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