Please see attached screenshot - I have a cartestian chart with one (scatterpoint) series per point. Sometimes points overlap as they do in my example and the tooltip only shows the one on top. So I tried using the TrackBall behavior to display some info, but it seems that this behavior does not work correctly on ScatterPointSeries (works correctly on LineSeries). No matter where I place the cursor the TrackBall displays all the series instead of the closest one/ones (tried all the snap modes). If this is intentional - are there any other solutions to my problem?
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Hello ,
What you describe is actually by design. The trackball will display information about the closest point of each series. In this case, you have six series and you will always see six items in the track ball info.
Having a series for each point you need is not a good solution, I recommend you remove this. Keep one series and have a DefaultVisualStyle (or a PointTemplate) to color the item with the Fill in mind. You can implement a Brush color in your business object and use a Binding in the Fill setter of the style that gets this Brush. Note, this does not target to solve the track-ball issue you have. Having a series per point may result in a significant performance hit if you have many items. Sure, if you have no more than 10 items, you will not see a speed change, but I think that semantically here you need 1 series, not 10.
If you decide to switch to one series - this will not solve the issue at hand, because you will still have two or more points over one another. I simply think that a ponit series is not the most appropriate type of display for this scenario. Can you please let us know more about your case - what type of data are you plotting and what information would you like to have displayed. We can perhaps make a suggestion to use another series, such as clustered bars.
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Petar Marchev
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What you describe is actually by design. The trackball will display information about the closest point of each series. In this case, you have six series and you will always see six items in the track ball info.
Having a series for each point you need is not a good solution, I recommend you remove this. Keep one series and have a DefaultVisualStyle (or a PointTemplate) to color the item with the Fill in mind. You can implement a Brush color in your business object and use a Binding in the Fill setter of the style that gets this Brush. Note, this does not target to solve the track-ball issue you have. Having a series per point may result in a significant performance hit if you have many items. Sure, if you have no more than 10 items, you will not see a speed change, but I think that semantically here you need 1 series, not 10.
If you decide to switch to one series - this will not solve the issue at hand, because you will still have two or more points over one another. I simply think that a ponit series is not the most appropriate type of display for this scenario. Can you please let us know more about your case - what type of data are you plotting and what information would you like to have displayed. We can perhaps make a suggestion to use another series, such as clustered bars.
Regards,
Petar Marchev
Telerik
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answered on 26 Aug 2014, 09:50 AM
Ok, I now understand why all the points are displayed in the TrackBall. I will merge all series into one and create a brush property in my business object. I cannot display the data as bars because the points must be visualized in a 2 dimensional space relative to each other.
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answered on 26 Aug 2014, 09:57 AM
If I merge my series into one and some points overlap - will the TrackBall only show one point from this series or will it display all the overlapping points if I hold the pointer over overlapping points?
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Hello ,
As I mentioned earlier, displaying the items in a single series will not solve the track-ball issue at hand. What will happen, I think, is that you will never see info for one of the overlapping points (the one that is second in the items collection).
Do give us more information on the data that you want visualized so that we can give you more scenario specific suggestions.
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Petar Marchev
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As I mentioned earlier, displaying the items in a single series will not solve the track-ball issue at hand. What will happen, I think, is that you will never see info for one of the overlapping points (the one that is second in the items collection).
Do give us more information on the data that you want visualized so that we can give you more scenario specific suggestions.
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Petar Marchev
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answered on 26 Aug 2014, 10:28 AM
The chart in question is a risk chart where risk indicators (KPI's) have a probability value and a consequence value. These are plotted in a 2D space to visualize the severity of the risks (upper right corners are high risks). See attached file for example. These kind of risk charts is a standard way to visualize risks for risk managers/analysts. I can of course visualize this with clustered bars but the effect is not the same. If you have any pointers tips on how to visualize overlapping points - please let me know. The tooltip only displays on the topmost point, but as a simple "solution" I have put a tooltip on the LabelTemplate to give further details about the points.
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Hello ,
I agree, the type of display you have chosen is most informative and any suggestion I make will just not be as good.
Here are some ideas to how you can solve the issue at hand.
1. I have not seen any of your code so I will explain a few things. We have two types of series - categorical and scatter. For instance BarSeries and PointSeries are categorical, where one of the axes is categorical. Say you want to plot fruit count - Bananas 50, Apples 20, Oranges 25. Scatter series have two numerical axes.
The categorical series have a CombineMode, where the scatter do not. In the images you attached, the Probability (horizontal values) are always integer. If this is the case, and all Probabilities are integer, you can use a categorical chart with a small work-around to ensure points do not overlap. I have demonstrated this in the project I attached. The work around is to use BarSeries (because the Cluster CombineMode is not implemented for the PointSeries) with a custom template to mimic a Point and using a dummy series to ensure that there are no missing values (such as Probability=2 in my example).
Surely, this will not work if the probabilities are not integer, but double.
2. Another option is to set a tooltip for the item's label. This way, the user can see that there are two labels and hover over one of them, to get info. (Of course, an option would be to plot all needed data in the label.) I will not go any deeper here, hoping the first suggestion is a feasible solution.
3. Another option is for you to implement your own track-ball or tooltip features and show information for all overlapping items. You can check out an example of a trackball-like annotations in our sdk samples here.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Petar Marchev
Telerik
I agree, the type of display you have chosen is most informative and any suggestion I make will just not be as good.
Here are some ideas to how you can solve the issue at hand.
1. I have not seen any of your code so I will explain a few things. We have two types of series - categorical and scatter. For instance BarSeries and PointSeries are categorical, where one of the axes is categorical. Say you want to plot fruit count - Bananas 50, Apples 20, Oranges 25. Scatter series have two numerical axes.
The categorical series have a CombineMode, where the scatter do not. In the images you attached, the Probability (horizontal values) are always integer. If this is the case, and all Probabilities are integer, you can use a categorical chart with a small work-around to ensure points do not overlap. I have demonstrated this in the project I attached. The work around is to use BarSeries (because the Cluster CombineMode is not implemented for the PointSeries) with a custom template to mimic a Point and using a dummy series to ensure that there are no missing values (such as Probability=2 in my example).
Surely, this will not work if the probabilities are not integer, but double.
2. Another option is to set a tooltip for the item's label. This way, the user can see that there are two labels and hover over one of them, to get info. (Of course, an option would be to plot all needed data in the label.) I will not go any deeper here, hoping the first suggestion is a feasible solution.
3. Another option is for you to implement your own track-ball or tooltip features and show information for all overlapping items. You can check out an example of a trackball-like annotations in our sdk samples here.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Petar Marchev
Telerik
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