Pie Chart

A pie chart uses “pie slices” to show relative sizes of data.

The following is a list of the fields in the View Properties box in the dashboard designer for pie chart. There are some required fields to be set for each created view.

Basic Properties

The View Properties fields vary in different charts. Below are the basic properties in the View Properties box.

Field Description Mandatory
View Type Type of chart, table or view. Yes
Title Name of the view. No
Dataset Data used for the chart, table or view. Yes
Subset Partial data from a dataset used for the chart, table or view. No
Key Key groups the output into separate groups based on the selected value. Yes
Value Used as main output point.
Determines the size of each portion based on the selected “Aggregation”.
Yes
Aggregation Data aggregation refers to the accumulation of the data by count, average, or summation.
By default, count is selected.
Yes

The dataset and subset data derive from Dataset Management. Choose the right chart from the View Type and data points to build a view. Also, be consistent in using the color scheme and formatting.

Other Properties

The other property fields are available to enhance the view. Below are the other properties in the View Properties box for the pie chart.

Field Description Default
Controlled By Links dashboard controls to the view.
One or more controls can be added to affect the data displayed on the view.
Empty
Colour Scheme Determines the color palette used for the view. Default
Drill Allows drilling down data on the selected group level. Empty
Select to Control Allows a selection made in the view to set the value of a control. Other views which are dependent on that control will then update accordingly. Empty
Show Number of portions to be displayed on the pie chart. All
Text Position Determines the position of the text to be shown in the view. Auto
Legend Chooses the chart legend visibility in the Legend properties as well as how you want to display the legend. The legend orientation displays either in vertical or horizontal order. Selected
Hover Template Customise the content shown when hovering over the view. Empty
Click to Page Adds a link to another view. Empty
Click to Page Tip Adds a brief description of the link above. Empty
Maximisable If selected, places a maximise button on the top right of the view (when not in edit mode).
This will maximise the view to fill the browser.
Not selected
Margins Allows adjusting margins and padding between charts and grid. Default settings
Advanced Add a special CSS class, data script and/or layout overview to the view. Empty
Config Options Config Options consists of the following:
- Scroll Zoom - allows the mouse wheel to zoom in/out of the chart
- Display Modebar - controls whether the bar of icons at the top right of the chart should appear always, never or only when hovering over the chart
- Hide Modebar buttons - chooses which buttons (icons) to include in the Modebar
Default settings

Do note that there are some weighting on some of the fields. Some properties have priorities over others. For example, the “Click to Page” property has priority over the “Drill” property, which means that if “Click on Page” is activated, you will not be able to drill down the data set in the properties. Thus, these 2 fields should not be used together.

Example: Drill Down Data

You can use the “Drill” property to view the subset of the data, and the sub-subset of the data. In this example, the view displays the pie chart by region. You may want to drill down on the countries in a particular region, and drill down further to the item types of a particular country in that region. To do so, add “Country” and “Item Type” to the “Drill” property.

By clicking on the portion labelled “Europe”, all countries in the Europe region are displayed. To view the types of items sold in a country in Europe, click on any of the countries in the pie chart. In this case, Belarus is selected and the pie chart displays all items sold in Belarus.

Click on the icon on the title bar to return to the previous view or click on the icon to return to the main view (if available).

Example: Select to Control

You can use the “Select to Control” property to interact and control other dashboard views. In this example, there are two views, a pie chart and a linear table that uses the same dataset. You can use “Select to Control” property in the pie chart to control the content of the linear table.

To do so, first create a control filter that uses the “Region” field. In the View Properties of the linear table, select the control filter that was created earlier in the “Controlled By” property. In the View Property of the pie chart, select the same control filter in the “Select to Control” property.

By clicking on the portion labelled “Europe”, all the data in the Europe region are displayed in the linear table.

You can click on other portion in the pie chart and the linear table will display the data of the portion. To reset the selection, click on the icon in the pie chart and the linear table all data in the dataset.