Exploded Pie Chart for Analysis Services Data - Page 4June 30, 2009 Populate the Exploded Pie Chart item to Meet the Business RequirementsWhile our next steps might focus upon simply dragging fields from the Fields pane of the Report Designer, we will populate our chart from inside the multi-tabbed Chart Properties dialog. Because few charts I encounter in the business environment can be built completely through the “drag-and-drop” process anyway (expressions are often involved in combination with the date fields, as an example), I long ago developed the habit of working from the Properties dialog. (The practice of tabbing through the Properties dialog can often remind us of other settings we need to make, additional options that are available in meeting client / employer needs, and so forth, as an another benefit.) 1. Right-click the generic chart item. 2. Select Properties from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 11.
The Properties dialog appears, defaulted to the General tab, where we will begin our examination of the chart properties in the subsections that follow. General Tab1. Type the following into the Title box on the General tab: Sales Reason Comparisons 2. Click the Style button, depicted (and also magnified) within the respective red squares in Illustration 12, to the immediate right of the Title box.
The Style Properties dialog box appears. 3. Make the settings, listed in Table 1 below, within the Style Properties dialog box:
Table 1: Style Properties Dialog The Style Properties dialog appears, with our settings, as shown in Illustration 13.
4. Click OK to accept changes and to exit the Style Properties dialog box. We return to the General tab. 5. Select Pie in the Chart type selection list. 6. Ensure that the right-most selection, Pie chart (the exploded versus the simple Pie chart) is highlighted, among the context-sensitive Chart sub-type selections to the immediate right of the Chart type selection list. 7. Click the Chart Area Style... button, which appears in the bottom left corner of the General tab. We can manipulate settings for chart borders and lines via the Borders and Lines tab, depicted with default settings in Illustration 14.
8. Click the Fill tab to expose the chart Fill settings, which appear (with defaults) as shown in Illustration 15.
9. Click the OK button at the bottom of the Style Properties... dialog, to dismiss the dialog with all properties settings at default. We return to the General tab, once again. 10. Click the Plot Area Style... button, which appears to the immediate right of the Chart Area Style... button at the bottom of the General tab. The two-tabbed Style Properties dialog that appears is identical to that which we saw when we clicked the Chart Area Style... button in the immediately preceding steps. Since we will be leaving these settings, too, at their defaults, we will dismiss the Style Properties dialog at this point. 11. Click the OK button at the bottom of the Style Properties dialog, to dismiss the dialog with all properties settings at default. We return to the General tab, once again, which appears, with our settings, as depicted in Illustration 16.
We will move to the Data tab in the subsection that follows. |
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