[Solved] DateTimeCategoricalAxis tick only for months and not for each day

[Andrea]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a chart where I have a bar series with 365 points, each for one day of the year.
I'm using a DateTimeCategoricalAxis and I would like to show a tick only for each month and not for each day and show the month label between the ticks.

How can I do this?

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hello,

For such scenario I suggest that you use DateTimeContinuousAxis instead of DateTimeCategoricalAxis. Then you can set the DateTimeContinuousAxis.MajorStepUnit to Month and the DateTimeContinuousAxis.MajorStep to 1. Thus, you will have one label for each month. Initially the label shows the whole date but you can format it through the DateTimeContinuousAxis.LabelFormat property. For example, if you want to show only the name of the month the code should look like this:

Chart:DateTimeContinuousAxis MajorStep="1" MajorStepUnit="Month" LabelFormat="{}{0:MMMM}" />

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Ivaylo Gergov
Telerik

 

 

[Andrea]

Hello,

I tried your solution and it works. The only problem I have is that bars are continuous while I would like to have an horizontal space between each bar, like in DateTimeCategoricalAxis.
The only way I found is to set MajorStepUnit="Day" but doing this I have labels for each day and not for each month.

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hello,

If you set the DateTimeContinuousAxis.PlotStretch ​property to Uniform there will be space between each bar.

Let me know if this works for you.

Regards,
Ivaylo Gergov
Telerik

 

 

[Andrea]

Hello,

it works!

Thank you very much.