Chart Documentation

Question

1. FYI to MSFT Project Siena team - "Chart" is not documented under "Visual Reference"
2. Struggling a bit to make a bar chart...some clear guidance would be much appreciated.
Have 2 Collections with data as follows:
Base_Risk_Percent
Year4Risk - .20
Year2Risk - .12
Year1Risk - .06
Optimal_Risk_Percent
Year4Risk - .09
Year2Risk - .01
Year1Risk - .004
My simple questions:
How do I add this data to produce a bar chart with the 2 series next to each other? Or do I need to have my collections done differently?
How do I select Labels for this data?
How do I produce a Legend?
Many thanks in advance.
Shawn

Answer 1

Hi Shawn,
For your scenario, lets assume your collection is called Risk. you would set up your collection data set as follows with the following three columns:
{"Year", "Risk_Base", "Risk_Optimal"}
You can then proceed to add a column chart, called Chat1. Once this is done, set the 'Items'
property of Chart1 to Risk. As it pertains to the number of series, you will need to click on the
'Design' group, then 'Chart' and finally set the
'Number of Series' property to 2.
With this setup, if you are curious about what the selected label is, you can drop a label control called
Label1 for example and set its 'Text' property to ColumnChart1!Selected!Label or ColumnChart1!Selected!Year etc.
For a Legend, you could experiment with a rectangle control that has its
'Fill' property set to the color of the series and sit this next to a label with its
'Text' property set to the name of the series.
To see some other ways you can leverage the Charts feature set of Siena, please take a look at our
Interactive Charts video, that provides some more insight. Hope this helps get you moving along.
Many thanks for the feedback in general. We will continue to release updates across the board so please stay tuned.