RadChart legend wont display item labels in pie chart

[Dwight]

Hi

I have an issue whereby I have a pie chart and although I have set the LegendDisplayMode to ItemLabels on the Series Appearance properties window the legend always shows the series label instead.

This issue had previously raised by someone else in the post below, the poster described the issue well and although he never got an answer did manage to find a workaround himself using the databinding event

http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/legenddisplaymode-itemlabels-is-not-working-in-preview-mode-and-designer.aspx 

If you can see something obvious that I am missing on doing can you give me a hint or if his fix is known then how did he manage to do it?

[Dwight]

Any ideas?

[Steve]

Hi Dwight,

There is no known bug for this functionality and in fact our ProductLineSales demo report contains a pie chart with LegendDisplayMode set to ItemLabels that works as expected. Those demos are installed along with the product so you can open the report locally and review it. One thing that could intervene with any settings of the chart (not only styles) is the Skin property which can override such settings. So if you're using a Skin, it is a good idea to set the customizations of the chart in the report constructor after InitializeComponent or style the whole chart manually (i.e. without setting a Skin).

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Dwight]

One of the most attractive features of this was the ability to apply the skins but I see that they can cause issues

Thx for the response