Simple Pie Chart...

[Neil Alderson]

Dear Telerik,

For some reason I am struggling to create a very simple Pie Chart with your control (mainly due to lacking documentation I feel).

I have the following data structure:

public

 

class GraphDataView

 

{

 

    public decimal Consumption { get; set; }

 

 

    public DateTime DateTime { get; set; }

 

 

    public string DataType { get; set; }

 

}

Now I'd like to construct a Pie Chart that displays the sum of the Consumption value for each DataType. This should be pretty straightforward to chart but I keep getting an NullReference exception. I am setting up the Pie Chart like this:

 

SeriesMapping

 

summaryMapping = new SeriesMapping();

 

summaryMapping.SeriesDefinition =

new PieSeriesDefinition();

 

 

 

 

 

summaryMapping.ItemMappings.Add(

new ItemMapping("Consumption", DataPointMember.YValue, ChartAggregateFunction.Sum));

 

summaryMapping.ItemMappings.Add(

new ItemMapping("DataType", DataPointMember.Label));

 

summaryChart.SeriesMappings.Add(summaryMapping);

 

List

 

<GraphDataView> allConsumptionReadings = new List<GraphDataView>();

 

allConsumptionReadings.AddRange(aitConsumption);

allConsumptionReadings.AddRange(ai3Consumption);

summaryChart.ItemsSource = allConsumptionReadings;

 

When I go to set the ItemsSource to a List of my data objects I get the following exception:
{System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Telerik.Windows.Data.ObjectDataBinder.GetValue(Object bindingSource, String propertyPath)}

The "allConsumptionReadings" collection is filled with 23 GraphDataView objects, so this isn't the problem.

Any ideas?
Neil

[Velin]

Hello Neil Alderson,

Unfortunately, data grouping and aggregation is still not supported for the Pie series type. You will need to manually aggregate your data prior to data binding. Our developers will consider implementing this functionality in a future version of the control.

Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience.

Regards,
Velin
the Telerik team

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[Neil Alderson]

Ok no problem. I solved this by aggregating the sumation into new business objects and used these for the Pie chart.

Thanks,