Name xaxis labels within my series

[David]

ChartSeries objSeriesActual = new ChartSeries("Actual", ChartSeriesType.Bar);
foreach (FinanceData objFinanceData in actualFinanceDataList)
{
    objSeriesActual.AddItem(objFinanceData.Revenue, objFinanceData.Revenue.ToString());
}


ChartSeries objSeriesBudget = new ChartSeries("Budget", ChartSeriesType.Bar);
foreach (FinanceData objFinanceData in budgetFinanceDataList)
{
    objSeriesBudget.AddItem(objFinanceData.Revenue, objFinanceData.Revenue.ToString());
}


revenueFinanceChart.Series.Add(objSeriesActual);
revenueFinanceChart.Series.Add(objSeriesBudget);
revenueFinanceChart.DataBind();

Dear Telerik,

I have made a chart that displays two series of actual and budget finance data for some companies. I would like to now replace the xaxis labels 1, 2, 3 etc underneath the bars with the name of the companies. I want this to be picked up from the financedata lists such as
using objSeriesActual.PlotArea.XAxis.AxisLabel.TextBlock.Text = objFinanceData.Name but this does not work; reference to object not found.
How can I accomplish this?

[Evgenia]

Hello David,

You can review this help topic where it is shown how to bind the Axis Labels to a property ofyour business object. For the purpose RadChart exposes the DataLabelsColumn property of the XAxis.

Kind regards,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[David]

Thank you for your response.

I am still not able to implement this after reading your link. As you can see by my example I am itterating through actualFinanceDataList  and budgetFinanceDataList and adding the items to the series. So I need to name my xaxis labels at that time right?

Thanks

[Evgenia]

Hello David,

 As reviewing your code snippet again I saw that you are binding the two series to two collections of one and the same business object (FinanceData object). Do you really need this? I suggest that you create two properties in your FinanceData class for each series. Something like RevenueSeries1 and RevenueSeries2. Then you may easily bind the DataLabelsColumn property of the XAxis to a common property of your business object.

Let me know if you need a sample for the described approach.

All the best,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[David]

Thank you for your response.

I would really appreciate a sample. Thanks again.

[Evgenia]

Hi David,

You may find the sample project attached. I hope it helps.

All the best,
Evgenia
the Telerik team