Gaps in Dates on AxisX

[DMM]

I have time series data that has gaps on holidays and weekends that must be omitted from the charts.  I am fine indexing the dates, that actually works good for me.  What I need to do is replace the index that is present on the X axis with the date it represents.  I have not found how to do this on the WPF charting controls.

Thanks!

[Nikolay]

Hi david maloney,

In order to enable the X axis to plot not only numerical sequence, but categorical values, you have to map the desired category values to the XCategory property of the DataPoint. You can do this by creating a DataBound chart and mapping the Field from your data source that holds the dates to the XCategory in the following way :

seriesMapping.ItemMappings.Add( new ItemMapping( "Dates", DataPointMember.XCategory ) );

For more information on Data Binding,please, refer to this help topic.

Regards,
Nikolay
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[Matt Tonsager]

Hello,

I have noticed when we change the XValue to XCategory it slows the performance of displaying the chart dramatically.

Is there an explanation as to why this is?

Thanks in advance!

Matt

[Ves]

Hello Matt,

Indeed, there is such issue in the current official release. Our developers have already addressed it and the fix will be available in the upcoming service pack release.

Sincerely,
Ves
the Telerik team

[DMM]

Okay, I see I can switch the axis to DataPointMember.XCategory , but it I have a lot of data points, the Axis becomes unreadable.  I have 100+ days, want to plot them in a chart with gaps in data(weekend and holidays).  What do you suggest?

[Ves]

Hello David Maloney,

You can set the AxisX.LabelStep property to 7 or 14 -- this will force the chart to display only every 7-th or every 14-th label, hiding the rest of them.

Best regards,
Ves
the Telerik team