Limiting number of labels in categoryAxis

[Chris]

I have a chart that is able to be filtered by date. I would like to always display 3-5 labels in the categoryAxis, that shows the start date, end date and a few points along the way to assist the user in identifying the data. I have only seen that you can step the labels and display on the nth one, however, my data set varies in size based on the date range, meaning a different set and number of labels is displayed based on the query. Is there any way to fix the number of labels that show and to have them do a min, max, median?

Thanks in advance.

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Chris,

This scenario is not supported by Kendo UI Chart and there is no a suitable workaround I can suggest. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik

 

 

[grex]

Hi, 

 I'd like to know if there is a solution for this problem in the latest versions of KendoUI. As the original post, we need to show the dates every n points in the X axis, but we don't know how how my points there will be in that axis so we would need to know the max in advance to set the step parameter.

 

Thanks.

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Fernando,

You could get the number of categories via the internal _plotArea option:

// get reference to the chart widget
var chart = $("#chart").data("kendoChart");
// get the categories length
chart._plotArea.categoryAxis.children.length

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik