Custom Legend in Pie Chart

[Arvind]

Hi,
   The following is the code I use.  I have attached the pie chart generated by this code.

 

ICollection<PieChartSeries> pieChartList = new List<PieChartSeries>();

 

 

GeneratePieChart generatePieChart = new GeneratePieChart();

 

pieChartList = generatePieChart.GenerateChartSeries();

radChart1.DataManager.DataSource = pieChartList;

radChart1.DataManager.LabelsColumn =

"ItemName";

 

radChart1.DataManager.ValuesXColumn =

"Value";

 

radChart1.IntelligentLabelsEnabled =

true;

 

radChart1.DataBind();

radChart1.Series[0].Name =

"LegendName";

 

radChart1.Series[0].Appearance.LegendDisplayMode =

ChartSeriesLegendDisplayMode.ItemLabels;

 

radChart1.Update();

The legends are not displaying the values of the LegendName property of the colloection pieChartList. 
The LegendName property will have some names like Arvind, Robin, Kumar, Mark, etc...

Now the radChart is taking the legends as the radChart1.DataManager.LabelsColumnradChart1.DataManager.LabelsColumn's data (ItemName). Is it possible to display a different text for the legend (It should be other than the ItemName)?

In the above code I am using the line
radChart1.Series[0].Name = "LegendName";

Does it have any significance?

Regards,
Arvind Robin Kumar.

[Ves]

Hello Arvind,

You can wire the ItemDataBound event of RadChart. In the event handler you can set the Name property of each individual ChartSeriesItem -- this is the value which will appear in the legend. The event arguments will hold references to the ChartSeriesItem, ChartSeries and the underlying data. It would be similar to what's shown in this blog post, but you need to set the Name property and not the Label's text.

 Setting the Name property of the ChartSeries would not make any difference in this case. The value of ChartSeries.Name is shown in the legend when the ChartSeries.Appearance.LegendDisplayMode is set to ChartSeriesLegendDisplayMode.SeriesName.

Kind regards,
Ves
the Telerik team

[André Paulo]

i'll put my problem in other topic.