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Abbas
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Hi there,

When i was evaluating Chart Web Part, I found some of the limitations mentioned below. Please let me know if there is possiblity of achieving these.

  • It has Column, Line, Area, and Financial charts. It doesn’t have Pie chart
  • It can't read data from external data like SQL Query or other databases or business logic.
  •  Chart title cannot be mentioned within the chart.
  • Hides lengthier text in the X axis.
  • X axis does not accept numeric values
  • Font cannot be changed,
  • Cannot display actual value in the axis bar
  • No 3D support
  • Preview window is small as it accomodates within Editor (no separate window for preview)
  • Loading takes some seconds (when reading from SP list) but there is no loading message.
  • Cannot impose click event on chart or on each category of the axis
  • Tooltip of X or Y axis value when hover
  • Zooming not available on a chart to examine an especially interesting part of the data more closely either in the X or Y dimension

Thanks

Abbas

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    Hi Abbas,

    I will try to answer each bullet item:

    • At the moment we do not have a pie chart support

     

    • Actually, you can read data from so called External Content Type (WCF, or SQL database) and expose it as a SharePoint list. We've prepared a thorough documentation on how to do it - follow this link or just navigate to http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/SharePoint/2011.1/CLR4.0 -> Getting Started with Infragistics SharePoint Web Parts -> How to Retrieve Data From External Content Type.

     

    • What do you mean by "chart title"? Is it Series name or the whole chart name? You can change series name from Series tab -> Select one of the series -> Title field under Series name group.

     

    • Lengthier text can be extended by Extent numeric field found under Axes tab -> Label Settings group. Also you can specify angle - inclination at which the labels will appear. For more information, you might want to refer to the Chart Options Reference.

     

    • Yes, X-axis accepts only text values since it is considered category. Could you please share your case where you are using numeric values?

     

    • Font size and color can be changed using Font Size and Foreground fields under Axes tab -> Label Settings group. At the moment we do not support font type, however, it is in our features list.

     

    • Using the settings in the Axis Layout group, you can specify the interval or the min and max values for the Numeric Y axis.

     

    • At the moment we do not have 3D chart types.

     

    • You can maximize the Editor in order to view the preview in a bigger area. You can also resize the preview area in the Editor by dragging the border line, as shown on the picture below:

     

    • We will discuss and evaluate loading screen feature if we would include it in one of the future releases.

     

    • For now we do not support click events on chart items.

     

    • Axes are with fixed names - Category X and Numeric Y. If you mean the values for the different chart entities, we are are preparing such feature for the new volume release 11.2. If you are looking for axes tooltips (when you hover on either X or Y axis), there will be no such tooltip.

     

    Cheers!