Comments on: Pie Chart Techniques http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/ SQL Server, BI, .NET, IT and anything else I have been playing with. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dario http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3909 Dario Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:55:13 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3909 Nice work! It's very helpful so Thanks a lot! Cheers Nice work! It’s very helpful so Thanks a lot! Cheers

]]> By: John L http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3844 John L Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:00:10 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3844 Labels actually do work when outside and softedge. The line color is the same as the BorderColor in that case. Set it to black and you'll notice the labels then work as expected. Labels actually do work when outside and softedge. The line color is the same as the BorderColor in that case. Set it to black and you’ll notice the labels then work as expected.

]]> By: Sanjeev http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3431 Sanjeev Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:41:16 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3431 Really helpful & detailed info. thank you Really helpful & detailed info.

thank you

]]> By: Valentino Vranken http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3266 Valentino Vranken Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:02:19 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3266 Hi Wendy, Thanks for taking the time to add a comment here! It's comments like yours that keep me going :-) Ow, and congrats on getting started with SSRS! Best regards, Valentino. Hi Wendy,

Thanks for taking the time to add a comment here! It’s comments like yours that keep me going :-)

Ow, and congrats on getting started with SSRS!

Best regards,
Valentino.

]]> By: Wendy Ware http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3262 Wendy Ware Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:11:01 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3262 Great article! I don't have much experience working with pie charts in any technology and I am brand new user of SSRS 2008 (have used many other reporting tools over the years.) I was able to accomplish everything I needed thanks to your clearly-written explanations and excellent illustrations. Thank you for publishing this terrific information (originally found it on Experts Exchange.) Wendy Ware Great article! I don’t have much experience working with pie charts in any technology and I am brand new user of SSRS 2008 (have used many other reporting tools over the years.) I was able to accomplish everything I needed thanks to your clearly-written explanations and excellent illustrations. Thank you for publishing this terrific information (originally found it on Experts Exchange.) Wendy Ware

]]> By: Soontaree Stallings http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-3170 Soontaree Stallings Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:59:24 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-3170 Thank you very much. Very useful articles. Thank you very much. Very useful articles.

]]> By: Valentino Vranken http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Valentino Vranken Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:27:53 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-1846 Hello David, While I was trying out the drill-through action as you've described it, I indeed came to the same conclusion. And I think I know the reason. All the slices represent just one item of the category or series group that you've specified in your pie. When clicking on a slice, you're probably passing some data from that particular group to the subreport. But the collected slice groups several items of your category/series group together into one slice. As a result SSRS does not know which one it is supposed to pass down to the subreport. In other words, it doesn't make sense to have a drillthrough action on that collected pie. Hope that makes sense? And thanks for your nice comment btw! Regards, Valentino. Hello David,

While I was trying out the drill-through action as you’ve described it, I indeed came to the same conclusion. And I think I know the reason. All the slices represent just one item of the category or series group that you’ve specified in your pie. When clicking on a slice, you’re probably passing some data from that particular group to the subreport. But the collected slice groups several items of your category/series group together into one slice. As a result SSRS does not know which one it is supposed to pass down to the subreport. In other words, it doesn’t make sense to have a drillthrough action on that collected pie.

Hope that makes sense?

And thanks for your nice comment btw!

Regards,
Valentino.

]]> By: David laplante http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 David laplante Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:16 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-1840 Very interesting and usefull! Thanks for the tip on how to format chart labels like #PERCENT{P} I have a question though. I have this pie chart with a collectedstyle of "slice" to collect averything smaller than 3% into a "Others" bucket. On that chart, I have an action to open a new report based on the slice clicked. This works fine for all slices but it does not work for the collected slice. Is there something I am missing or is this not implemented ? Very interesting and usefull! Thanks for the tip on how to format chart labels like #PERCENT{P}

I have a question though. I have this pie chart with a collectedstyle of “slice” to collect averything smaller than 3% into a “Others” bucket. On that chart, I have an action to open a new report based on the slice clicked. This works fine for all slices but it does not work for the collected slice. Is there something I am missing or is this not implemented ?

]]> By: Valentino Vranken http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-1797 Valentino Vranken Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:50:50 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-1797 @chris: I tried it out and in my case the legend is working fine, using the expression that renders the blue, red, green, grey slices mentioned in my article above. So, if your expression is working fine for your slices but the legend is showing this strange behaviour, mayby this is a bug? Have you got the latest SP for SQL Server installed - SP1? @nojetlag: If I understand you correct, page 1 should show the chart for January, page 2 the chart for February and so on? I would use subreports for that. Create a new report that contains your chart. Add a month parameter to this report so that it retrieves only the data for that month. This is your subreport. In your main report, add the subreport item 12 times (if you need all 12 months) and configure each subreport to call your new report while passing in the correct month. That's just one way to get to what you want. More info on subreports with params: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160348.aspx Thank you both for your comments! Valentino. @chris: I tried it out and in my case the legend is working fine, using the expression that renders the blue, red, green, grey slices mentioned in my article above.
So, if your expression is working fine for your slices but the legend is showing this strange behaviour, mayby this is a bug? Have you got the latest SP for SQL Server installed – SP1?

@nojetlag: If I understand you correct, page 1 should show the chart for January, page 2 the chart for February and so on? I would use subreports for that. Create a new report that contains your chart. Add a month parameter to this report so that it retrieves only the data for that month. This is your subreport.
In your main report, add the subreport item 12 times (if you need all 12 months) and configure each subreport to call your new report while passing in the correct month.
That’s just one way to get to what you want.

More info on subreports with params: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160348.aspx

Thank you both for your comments!

Valentino.

]]> By: nojetlag http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-1794 nojetlag Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:10:58 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/10/25/pie-chart-techniques/#comment-1794 Very interesting and helpful article, I was wondering if you have experiance with grouping and page breaks for charts. Lets say you have a chart that contains monthly data for one year, however you would like to have the same chart for each month on a seperate page. Is that possible with SSRS 2008 ? I couldn't find a property that gives me the option to specifiy that. The reason is that I have a matrix table and I want to visualize the monthly data with a small chart next to it. Very interesting and helpful article, I was wondering if you have experiance with grouping and page breaks for charts. Lets say you have a chart that contains monthly data for one year, however you would like to have the same chart for each month on a seperate page. Is that possible with SSRS 2008 ? I couldn’t find a property that gives me the option to specifiy that. The reason is that I have a matrix table and I want to visualize the monthly data with a small chart next to it.

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