JavaScript/jQuery PieChart Options

When adapting to small container size, the widget may hide its accessory elements, thus saving space for more valuable ones. The elements are being hidden in the following sequence.

1. Title
2. Export menu icon
3. Legend
4. Point labels (can be saved by setting the adaptiveLayout.keepLabels option to true)

To specify the widget's size small enough for the layout to begin adapting, use the height and width options of the adaptiveLayout object.

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The widget animate its elements at the beginning of its lifetime and when the data source changes.

Use this object's properties to set options for all chart series at once.

All point labels in a chart are identical by default, but you can specify a unique appearance for individual labels using the customizeLabel function. This function should return an object with options that will be changed for a certain label. See the label object for information about all options available for changing.

The customizeLabel function accepts an object providing information about the series point that the label belongs to. This object contains the following fields.

By default, all the points of a pie are displayed identically. But you can specify different appearance for certain points using the customizePoint field. Assign a function to this field. This function should return an object with options that should be changed for a certain point. The following pie options can be changed.

• border
• color
• hoverStyle
• selectionStyle

When implementing a callback function for this option, use the argument or value of a point. They can be accessed using the following fields of the function's parameter.

• argument
  The argument of the point.
• value
  The value of the point.
• tag
  The tag of the point.
• index
  The index of the point in the points array.

In addition, these values can be accessed using the this object.

This option accepts one of the following:

• Array of objects
  A simple JavaScript array containing a collection of plain objects. See demo.

• URL
  A URL to JSON data or a service returning data in JSON format. See demo.

• DataSource or its configuration object
  A DataSource is an object that provides an API for data processing. Learn more about it from the Data Layer and DataSource Examples guides. See demo.

  NOTE

  Turn the DataSource's pagination off to prevent data from partitioning.

See Also

• argumentField | valueField
• getDataSource()

This option accepts a number that identifies the ratio between the pie's diameter and the widget's width or height (depending on which of them is less). For example, assume that the widget's size is 300x500 pixels and the diameter option is set to 0.5. Then, the resulting diameter of the pie will be:

0.5 * min(300,500) = 0.5 * 300 = 150 pixels

See Also

• minDiameter
• size
• sizeGroup

You can configure this option in an ASP.NET MVC Control as follows:

@(Html.DevExtreme().WidgetName()
    .ElementAttr("class", "class-name")
    // ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(new {
        @id = "elementId",
        @class = "class-name"
    })
    // ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(new Dictionary<string, object>() {
        { "id", "elementId" },
        { "class", "class-name" }
    })

)

@(Html.DevExtreme().WidgetName() _
    .ElementAttr("class", "class-name")
    ' ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(New With {
        .id = "elementId",
        .class = "class-name"
    })
    ' ===== or =====
    .ElementAttr(New Dictionary(Of String, Object) From {
        { "id", "elementId" },
        { "class", "class-name" }
    })
)

These features allow a user to export your widget into a document or print it. When exporting is enabled, the "Exporting/Printing" button appears in the widget. A click on it invokes a drop-down menu that lists exporting and printing commands. The following formats are supported for exporting into: PNG, PDF, JPEG, SVG and GIF.

See Also

• exportTo(fileName, format)
• print()
• DevExpress.viz.exportFromMarkup(markup, options)

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Use this option to change the amount of space occupied by the inner area of the doughnut-type pie chart.

The PieChart widget can include a legend. It helps you distinguish and identify the points of the displayed series. Each point is presented by an item on the legend. An item marker identifies the point's (slice's) color. An item label displays a value corresponding to the point. Use the legend property to set up PieChart legend options to the required values. To learn more about the legend and its options, refer to the Legend topic.

When the widget visualizes local data, loading is instant. But when the widget is bound to a remote data source, loading may takes a considerable amount of time. To keep the viewer's attention, the widget can display a loading indicator.

To activate the loading indicator, assign true to the loadingIndicator.show option. Once data is loaded, the loading indicator will be hidden automatically.

See Also

• showLoadingIndicator()
• hideLoadingIndicator()

This option specifies the minimum ratio between the pie's diameter and the widget's width or height (depending on which of them is less). For example, assume that the widget's size is 300x500 pixels and the minDiameter option is 0.7. Then, the diameter of the pie will never be less than:

0.7 * min(300,500) = 0.7 * 300 = 210 pixels

See Also

• size
• sizeGroup

See Also

• getAllSeries()
• getSeriesByName(seriesName)
• getSeriesByPos(seriesIndex)

See Also

• onExporting
• onFileSaving

See Also

• onExported
• onFileSaving

See Also

• onExporting
• onExported

When an error or warning appears, the widget notifies you by passing a message to the browser console. This message contains the ID of the incident, a brief description, and a link to the Errors and Warnings section where further information about this incident can be found. However, you can handle errors and warnings in the way that you require. To do this, implement a callback function performing the required actions and assign it to the onIncidentOccurred option. Within this function, you can use information about the incident that occurred. This information can be accessed from the target field of the object passed to the callback function as a parameter. This information includes the following.

• id
  Contains the ID of the incident. The full list of IDs can be found in the Errors and Warnings section.
• type
  Contains the type of the incident. This field equals "error" for errors or "warning" for warnings.
• args
  Contains the argument of the incident's message. The content of this field varies greatly, depending on the incident. For example, it may contain the name of the data source field that was not specified correctly, or the name of the option that was not set properly.
• text
  Contains the text passed to the browser console. This text includes the content of the args field, if there are any.
• widget
  Contains the name of the widget that produced the error or warning.
• version
  Contains the currently used version of the DevExtreme library.

You cannot access widget elements in this handler because it is executed before they are ready. Use the onDrawn handler instead.

This option accepts a function that executes custom commands or a URL to which the user must be navigated when the legendClick event is raised.

See Also

• Handle Events: jQuery | Angular | AngularJS | Knockout | ASP.NET MVC

When implementing a handling function, use the object passed to it as its parameter. Among the fields of this object, you can find the clicked series point. To learn about point members, refer to the description of the Point object. To get the parent series of the point, use the target.series field of the object passed to the handler as its parameter.

Alternatively, you can navigate to a specific URL when the pointClick event fires. For this purpose, assign this URL to the onPointClick option.

To learn more about how to handle click operations, and to see an example, refer to the Click Handling topic.

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When implementing a handling function, use the object passed to it as its parameter. Among the fields of this object, you can find the series point whose hover state has been changed. To identify whether this point was hovered over or hovered out, call its isHovered() method. To discover point fields and methods, refer to the Point class description.

To learn more about how to handle hover operations, refer to the Hover Handling topic.

When implementing a handling function, use the object passed to it as its parameter. Among the fields of this object, you can find the series point whose selection state has been changed. To identify whether this point was selected or deselected, call its isSelected() method. To discover point fields and methods that you can use, refer to the Point class description.

To learn more about how to handle selection, refer to the Selection Handling topic.

The point's tooltip becomes invisible when a user hovers the mouse cursor over another series point. In addition, you can hide a tooltip in code, using the hideTooltip() method of the chart or point.

When a tooltip is made hidden, you can perform specific actions by handling the tooltipHidden event. To do this, implement a handling function and assign it to the onTooltipHidden option. When implementing this function, use the object passed to it as its parameter. Among the fields of this object, you can find the series point whose tooltip becomes hidden.

The point's tooltip appears when a user hovers the mouse cursor over the point. In addition, you can show a tooltip in code, using the showTooltip() method of the chart or point.

When a tooltip appears, you can perform specific actions by handling the tooltipShown event. To do this, implement a handling function and assign it to the onTooltipShown option. When implementing this function, use the object passed to it as its parameter. Among the fields of this object, you can find the series point whose tooltip appears.

Use this property to set a predefined or custom palette. The colors listed in the specified palette will be used to draw series points (chart slices), their labels and tooltips. If the number of points is greater than the number of colors in a palette, the palette colors are repeated, but slightly modified.
You can define a custom palette and use it in your charts. To learn how to do this, refer to the Palettes topic.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, you can specify this option using the VizPalette enum. This enum accepts the following values: Default, SoftPastel, HarmonyLight, Pastel, Bright, Soft, Ocean, Vintage, Violet, Carmine, DarkMoon, SoftBlue, DarkViolet and GreenMist.

If you place the widget on a page that uses a tag modifying the path (<base>, <iframe>, etc.), some of the widget elements may get mixed up or disappear. To solve this problem, set the pathModified option to true.

See Also

• DevExpress.viz.refreshPaths()

To set the points to highlight along with the selected point, set the series.selectionMode option.

To learn how to select a point, refer to the Selection Handling topic.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the ChartElementSelectionMode enum. This enum accepts the following values: Single and Multiple.

When this option is set to true, the widget will be redrawn automatically in case the size of its parent window changes.

Series point labels display series point values. If the series in your pie chart contains a large number of points, point labels may overlap. In this case, specify how the chart must resolve overlapping using the resolveLabelOverlapping option. To hide certain labels, set this option to 'hide'. Labels to be hidden will be determined automatically. To resolve overlapping by shifting labels from their positions, set the resolveLabelOverlapping option to 'shift'. In this case, it is recommended that you display label connectors so that pie segments are connected with their labels. If there is not enough space for all labels after they are shifted, labels with the smallest values will be hidden.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the PieChartResolveLabelOverlapping enum. This enum accepts the following values: None, Hide and Shift.

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When this option is set to true, the widget text flows from right to left, and the layout of elements is reversed. To switch the entire application/site to the right-to-left representation, assign true to the rtlEnabled field of the object passed to the DevExpress.config(config) method.

DevExpress.config({
    rtlEnabled: true
});

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the PieChartSegmentsDirection enum. This enum accepts the following values: Clockwise and AntiClockwise.

A series represents a group of related data points. To configure a series, assign an object to the series option. If PieChart must contain several series, assign an array of such objects to the same option. Refer to the Series Overview topic to learn the basics of what a series is, what it does, and how it helps.

The definitive characteristic of a series is its type. The PieChart widget provides two series types - Pie and Doughnut.

When you have a multi-series pie, settings that are common for all series can be specified all together. Use the commonSeriesSettings object to do this.

In most cases, you can organize the array that is assigned to the chart's dataSource option in the following way.

[
    {arg: arg1Value, series1Value: val11, series2Value: val12, ...}
    {arg: arg2Value, series1Value: val21, series2Value: val22, ...}
    ...
    {arg: argNValue, series1Value: valN1, series2Value: valN2, ...}
]

Each object that is included in the array represents an argument value and the values of all series for this argument.

However, there are some scenarios in which you do not know exactly how many series will be added. In these cases, you will not be able to define the data source in the manner detailed above. Instead, define it in the following way.

[
    {seriesName: series1, arg: arg11Value, val: value11 }
    {seriesName: series1, arg: arg12Value, val: value12 }
    ...
    {seriesName: seriesM, arg: argM1Value, val: valueM1 }
    {seriesName: seriesM, arg: argM2Value, val: valueM2 }
    ...
]

If you define a data source in this manner, set the argument and value fields using the argumentField and valueField properties of the commonSeriesSettings configuration object (for all series at once). Then, define a template for the series using the seriesTemplate configuration object. Within this object, set the data source field that specifies the series name to the nameField option.

If you need to specify individual values for options of a particular series, assign a callback function to the customizeSeries option of the seriesTemplate object.

The widget occupies its container's entire area by default. Use the size object to specify the widget's size if it should be different from that of its container. Assign 0 to size object's height and width options to hide the widget.

Besides the pie itself, the PieChart widget comprises other diverse elements that affect the size of the pie. Therefore, when you display several PieChart widgets side by side, their pies may differ in size. To eliminate these differences, collect all the PieChart widgets in a single size group by setting their sizeGroup option to identical values. The widgets should have identical layouts, that is, the same container's size, position of the title and legend, etc. Note also that a single page can contain many size groups, but a widget can be a member of only one of them.

See Also

• size
• diameter
• minDiameter

A theme is a widget configuration that gives the widget a distinctive appearance. Use can use one of the predefined themes or create a custom one. Changing the option values in the widget's configuration object overrides the theme's corresponding values.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the VizTheme enum. This enum accepts the following values: GenericLight, GenericDark, GenericContrast, GenericCarmine, GenericDarkMoon, GenericSoftBlue, GenericDarkViolet, GenericGreenMist, Android5Light, IOS7Default, Win10Black and Win10White.

The widget's title is a short text that usually indicates what is visualized. If you need to specify the title's text only, assign it directly to the title option. Otherwise, set this option to an object with the text and other fields specified.

The title can be accompanied by a subtitle elaborating on the visualized subject using the title.subtitle object.

A tooltip is a miniature rectangle displaying values of a series point. A tooltip appears when the end-user hovers the cursor over a series point. You can enable/disable tooltips, change their appearance and format their text using fields of the tooltip configuration object.

See Series Overview for details.

When using the widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, specify this option using the PieChartType enum. This enum accepts the following values: Pie, Doughnut and Donut.