Series Label for only Second Series

[Ed]

Using the Column chart with exactly two series ("previous billing cycle" and "current billing cycle"). The series are not stacked, but side-by-side, I only want to display the series label on top of the bar for the second series, which is always "current billing cycle". How can I achieve this?

Second question: I want the series label to be a percent change between the first series and the second series. Should I do this calculation in the parse function?

Thanks,
--Ed

[Ed]

Is there a way to create a template to look at the data item and see what the series name is (which I will know) and only output the value for that series name?

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Ed,

Straight to the questions: 
- ...I only want to display the series label on top of the bar for the second series, which is always "current billing cycle"....
For this requirement you should set labels.visible true only to the second series: 

//....
series: [{
   name: "previous billing cycle",
   //....
   }, {
   name: "current billing cycle",
   labels: {
      visible: true
   },
   //....
},

- I want the series label to be a percent change between the first series and the second series. Should I do this calculation in the parse function?
Yes, in order to achieve this you should manually calculate the percent change. A similar basic example is available here.

- Is there a way to create a template to look at the data item and see what the series name is (which I will know) and only output the value for that series name?
The fields which can be used in the series.labels.template for column chart are: 
* category
* dataItem
* series
* value

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik

 

 

[Ed]

Thanks Iliana,
I've decided to go with notes instead. Works better for what I want to do.
--Ed