Reorder chart legend labels

[Boyan]

Hi. I have been trying to figure out how to reorder the items listed in the chart legend, but so far to no avail. I'd like to do something along the lines of this:

                List<Telerik.Charting.ChartLabel> legendItems = new List<Telerik.Charting.ChartLabel>();

                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[0]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[2]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[5]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[1]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[4]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[3]);
                legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[6]);

                for (int i = 0; i < 7; i ++)
                    RadChart1.Legend.Items[i] = legendItems[i];

But when I run this the RadChart1.Legend.Items appears empty. I am sure I am missing something here and was hoping you'd be able to lend a hand.

I would essentially like to know how I can reorder the labels that appear in the legend block.

Thank you!

[Evgenia]

Hi Boyan,

You can subscribe to BeforeLayout event of the RadChart - at that moment the Legend Items Collection is populated and add the reordered Items like this:

protected void RadChart1_BeforeLayout(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
 {
     List<Telerik.Charting.LabelItem> legendItems = new List<Telerik.Charting.LabelItem>();
     legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[2]);
     legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[1]);
     legendItems.Add(RadChart1.Legend.Items[0]);
     for (int i = 0; i < RadChart1.Legend.Items.Count; i++ )
     {
         //Remove the top-most item (which then decrements the item count of the legend)
         RadChart1.Legend.Items.RemoveAt(0);
         //Insert the new (reordered) legend item at the end of the list
         RadChart1.Legend.Items.Insert(RadChart1.Legend.Items.Count, legendItems[i]);
     }
 }

Kind regards,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[Boyan]

Thanks, Evgenia!

For some reason 

//Remove the top-most item (which then decrements the item count of the legend)   

         RadChart1.Legend.Items.RemoveAt(0);

did not work for me. It was not decreasing the count of the legend, so i used the following instead, which seemed to work :

RadChart1.Legend.Clear()

for (int i = 0; i < legendItems.Count; i++)
{
RadChart1.Legend.Items(i, legendItems[i]);
}

Thanks again for your help!

[Evgenia]

Hello Boyan,

I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue on your own.
Let us know if you need further assistance!

Greetings,
Evgenia
the Telerik team