How to show blank chart when no data (w/o axes)

[Ed]

For my column charts, when there is no data, it shows the Value & Category axes without any data, which is fine, but when there is no data for my pie charts, it also shows the Value and Category axes, which is misleading. How can I have the pie charts show a blank chart (no Value/Category axes) when there is no data?
Thanks,
--Ed

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Ed,

When there is no data Kendo UI Pie Chart should be blank (dojo example). Could you please modify the test example and demonstrate your exact setup - this way I would be able to advice you further and provide concrete recommendations.

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik

 

 

[Ed]

Hi Iliana,
Found this issue - I was setting the chart type in the series option, but when there's no data, that won't work. I've added it to the seriesDefault option as well for this specific case.
Thanks,
--Ed

[Ed]

Hi Iliana,
I found the issue. I was setting the chart type in the series option, but when there's no data, it will use the chart type from seriesDefault, which was not set. I'm setting seriesDefault now and the problem is solved.
Thanks,
--Ed

[Ed]

Hi Iliana,

Actually, slightly different solution than I described earlier. I looked at options.series in my parse event and I see the information there properly, but then in the dataBound event, the options.series is empty. Could this be because I am getting the data remotely?  In any case, my solution (sort of a hack) in dataBound event was to check the data length and if zero, re-set the options.series to what is was originally.

Do you have a better/cleaner/less hacky solution for me?

Thanks,
--Ed

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Ed,

If series.type is not specified the default "column" type will be applied. Hence in order to render a pie chart you need to set the type. 

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik