Can You Databind a Field to a Chart Series ToolTip?

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  1. David
    David avatar
    10 posts
    Member since:
    Sep 2010

    Posted 05 May 2011 Link to this post

    Greetings,
        Can the ActiveRegionToolTip of a RadChart be databound to a value returned directly from a datasource?  I am able to set it to the X or Y value in the Chart datapoint using #Y, etc., but if the query is returning extra text in a different field, is there a way to directly feed that into the ActiveRegionToolTip?  (i.e., without resorting to server side code when the items are databound).

    Thanks
    Dave
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  3. Evgenia
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    Posted 10 May 2011 Link to this post

    Hi David,

    Let's for example have a DataTable as datasouce for your Chart. You can handle the ItemDataBound event of the Chart and bind the values from a Column as ActiveRegionTooltip as shown in our demo with full source code. Here is how it's done:

    protected void RadChart1_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.Charting.ChartItemDataBoundEventArgs e)
           {
               if (e.SeriesItem.YValue > 30)
               {
                   e.SeriesItem.ActiveRegion.Tooltip = "Attention! Temperature too high! " + '\n';
               }
               else if (e.SeriesItem.YValue < 10)
               {
                   e.SeriesItem.ActiveRegion.Tooltip = "Attention! Temperature too low! " + '\n';
               }
               e.SeriesItem.ActiveRegion.Tooltip += ((DataRowView)e.DataItem)["Measurement"].ToString() + ": Temperature: " + e.SeriesItem.YValue;
           }


    Regards,
    Evgenia
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  5. David
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    10 posts
    Member since:
    Sep 2010

    Posted 10 May 2011 Link to this post

    Thanks.  I was hoping for direct binding of the tooltip from a SQL data source, so that I could have the tooltip generated in a stored procedure that accesses things in the database table that wouldn't have to be passed directly to the chart.  But we can work around it this way too.

    Regards
    Dave
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