Pie Chart Format Series Marker

[Former Member]

I have a pie chart that uses the "Group" setting in the Layout section of the Data tab. The Data section is set to On change of: "xxx" Show: "Sum of yyyy".

On the Options tab of the Chart Expert, it doesn't matter what I set Marker Size to, they always display in the same size.

Even more of a problem is that I want to have a border around the series marker in the legend and also the pie slices. In Design view, there is only three pie slices, with the values - 2000, 2001, 2002. I can make the border settings here, but at runtime I always have 8-10 pie slices and only the first 3 pie slices and series markers have a border.....the rest don't!

So I have tried making the settings in Preview mode. They look good, but when the report is deployed to runtime environment it reverts back to no borders.

Using CR Developer 11.5.10.1263

Any ideas why I am having these problems with a humble pie chart?

Thanks

[former_member260594]

Andrew,

1) Marker size refers to line chart markers. You would need to change the Pie Size.

2) Unfortunately you can only apply borders to a specific slice so if when you run the report and the data forces more pie slices those won't have borders.

You could create a pie chart that contains a maximum number of slices, manually add all the borders and then save that chart as a template.

However it may be easier to change the pie chart to Black and White, the pies will then be differentiated by patterns but will all have borders

[Former Member]

Graham,

Thanks for your reply.

1) I don't want to change the size of the Pie Slices, just the size of the markers in the legend (the little squares with the same pattern/colour as the corresponding pie slices). I don't seem to have any control over this though. In addition, I have tried setting the font size of the legend items and I can't seem to control this either! It is quite problematic because I have two pie charts side by side. One usually has 2 or 3 pie slices, and the other usually has around 8 slices. Both charts end up with different sized fonts in the legend which looks a bit strange when they are side by side. It would be nice to be able to set a legend-wide setting (not a just on a particular item in the legend) for the font-size and also the marker size.

2) How do I create a pie chart that contains a maximum number of slices?

thanks again!

[former_member260594]

Andrew,

1) I don't know if you are going to be able to match legend marker and font sizes between 2 charts. The reason is that the chart has autoscaling built into it so when there are large number of legend entries it scales the marker size down and decreases the font. If you then increase the size of the legend or chart object it will scale or zoom out but the font size will still be the same value.

The only way I can think of matching the 2 would be to increase the size of the chart object for the chart that has more entries to the point where it zooms out to the same size. You can then resize the chart and chart label to be the same size as the chart with lesses entries.

2) What I meant by that is to determine the maximum number of entries you think the chart would have and then create a chart with that many on change of entries. So if you believed you woud never have more than 50 you could create a chart with 50 on change of values (you could even use a report based on the Xtreme Customer table with the record selection set to customer id <= 50). Format the 50 slices as you want then save the chart as a template.

[Former Member]

Graham,

1) OK - no problem.....I understand that there is not much that can be done when it is autoscaling.

2) Yes this worked....that was a good suggestion to save a template and has helped me to get around the initial problem I was having.

Thanks,

Andrew