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Formatting the Pies/Donuts in a Pie/Donut Chart

1. Right-click any portion of a pie/donut in the pie/donut chart, and then click Format Pie/Donut on the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Donut dialog or Format Pie dialog.

   

2. In the General tab, set the general settings for the pies/donuts.

   In the Gap Amount field, enter a number to set the distance between every two adjacent pies/donuts. In the Explode Amount field, enter a number to specify the distance between the sections in each pie/donut and the pie/donut center. In the Data Label Type field, specify the type of the data labels for the pie/donut sections. For a donut chart, you can also specify the radius percentage of the donut hole to the total pie circle by setting the option Donut Hole.

3. In the Fill tab, specify the fill type: Use Single Color or Use Single Color with Condition.

   

   If you select Use Single Color as the fill type, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill the pie/donut sections in the current data series, that is the sections in the same data series as the one you have right-clicked on to open the Format Pie dialog (to change the color, click the color image and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value of a color directly in the text box). If required, click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for pie/donut sections in each data series respectively in the Color List dialog.

   If you select Use Single Color with Condition, specify the conditions and the color pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding Conditional Color Fills to Charts.

4. In the Border tab, set the border mode for the pie/donut sections, including the border style, color, transparency, line style, thickness, end caps style, and line joint mode. You can also specify whether the border is to be outlined, and whether or not to automatically resize the border dashes if the border is drawn with dashes. The specified border properties take effect only when the Border property of the chart paper is set to true in the Report Inspector.

   

5. In the Data Label tab, specify whether or not to show static data labels on the pie/donut sections, and if to show the position of the labels related to the sections and the color of the thin lines that are used to point to the static data labels. In the Font and Effects boxes, set the font formats and effects of the data labels.

   

6. For a pie/donut chart in a library component, you can define web behaviors on the pies/donuts in the Behaviors tab.

   

   Select a trigger event from the drop-down list in the Events column, then click in the Actions column and click that appears in the text box. In the Web Action List dialog, bind a web action to the pies/donuts the same as you do to a label in the library component, which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the pies/donuts. The web actions you can bind include Parameter, Filter, Sort, Change Property and Send Message.

   To add more web behaviors, click and define them as required; if a web behavior is not required, select it and click . Click or to adjust the order of the behaviors, then at runtime when an event that has been bound with more than one action happens, the upper action will be triggered first.

7. Click OK to accept the changes and close the dialog.

See also the following dialogs for detailed explanation about options in each dialog:

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