Is there a means of using a RadChart that has both a data bound data series, and a template for each item?

What I am looking to do is take a ObservableCollection (sourced by a CollectionViewSource for filtering, grouping, etc) and bind it to a chart (scatter, pie, etc). Lets call this collection People.

So that certain elements of the items in People (e.g. people.age, people.income, etc.) are then data bound in the manner
X-axis.Itemsource={binding path=age} Y-axis.ItemSource{binding path=income} and then plot it as a scatter diagram.

Then I want to use data templates for the individual items of the scatter diagram, and map them to a RadPieChart so that I can get all the attributes of People. (e.g. people.count, people.grade, etc) as different slices of the PIE chart. Each data point would be a PIE chart, created by the Data Template

Is this possible?

I think it in the SilverLight Toolkit (they support xaml data binding, ItemTemplates and ItemSource with binding).

Hi Steven,

Unfortunately, such a complex scenario is not possible to achieve using RadChart.

Best wishes,
Evtim
the Telerik team

Are you sure? I see something like this in your gallery, where you provide tooltips on a scatter diagram, where the tooltip is a Chat that blows up the information. The switch I would want is that the some of the data is mapped to the actually icon. And since you provide custom icons, something like this seems possible.

Well, I like the PointMarkTemplate (especially since it can use template and data (source) binding). I have no fears of going beyond what you provide out of the box.

 

The issue is the documentation does not tell me if the PART (PART_PointMarkPath) can be something other than a path, nor if there is a template or other binding parameter that lets me get ahold of the item (from the bound itemsource) so that I can pull out subelements to so that I can make the custom point mark parameterized by the values of the item.

 

E.g. if I have an ObservableColleciton of objects of type person:

 

                {age, hair-color, weight, shoe-size}

 

I want to bind the attributes (e.g. color, size) of the custom point chart template to reflect the sub-elements of the person object.