Formula names in chart legends

Dear experts,
I use a chart with formulas. Now the names of the formulas are displayed in the chart legend as "@formulaname". I see no way to change this. Even if I rename the formula, the "@" would remain.
F1-Help says "Label aliasing and legend entry aliasing on charts is not supported by this version of Crystal Reports." (SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise)
Do I realy have to paint my own legend?
thank you
-Phil

found something interesting on idea's place for next version of CR
"The current workaround is to use a second chart that is modified in such a way that the legend of the second chart fits what you want to have as a legend for the first chart."
(Coy Yonce, https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/ideas/1489)
-Phil
Edited by: Philipp Vavron on Dec 21, 2011 7:45 AM

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Hi everybody,
The legend attached to the LineChart is no longer displaying the proper color. That is, the line, in the linechart is red (as requested) but the "legend" is black. It is supposed to be a red square and the word "Jobs" but I get a black square (as it is not picking the fact that it should be red).
<s:SolidColorStroke id="s3" color="red" />
<mx:Legend dataProvider="{myChart}" />
<mx:LineChart id="myChart"
x="10" y="40" width="600" height="400"
dataProvider="{platformsData}"
showDataTips="true" >
<mx:series>
<mx:LineSeries yField="id" displayName="Jobs" lineStroke="{s3}"/>
</mx:series>
</mx:LineChart>
This worked in Beta but no longer works in Production. Is this a bug or I need to make coding changes to accommodate to new Production ways of dealing with this?
Regards,
egm

Seems like a bug to me. If you remove lineStroke="{s3}", the chart legend loads fine.
Might have something to do with fill color perhaps?
In any case, the fills documentation says:
"If you specify the fills property and you want to have a Legend control, you must manually create a Legend control and add LegendItems to it."
Perhaps the entry for lineStroke should say the same.
In the mean time you could use the defaults, or a custom Legend, like this (place into an AIR 2 project if you try running it):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                            xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                            xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" width="1059" height="722">
     <fx:Script>
          <![CDATA[
               import mx.events.FlexEvent;
               [Bindable]
               public var platformsData:Array = [{id:1, jobs:'Test1'},{id:4, jobs:'Test2'},{id:6, jobs:'Test3'},{id:9, jobs:'Test4'}];
          ]]>
     </fx:Script>
     <fx:Declarations>
          <s:SolidColorStroke id="s3" color="0xFF0000" weight="2" alpha=".8"/>
     </fx:Declarations>
     <mx:Legend>
          <mx:LegendItem label="Jobs" fontWeight="bold">
               <mx:fill>
                    <mx:SolidColor color="0xFF0000"/>
               </mx:fill>
               <mx:stroke>
                    <mx:SolidColorStroke color="0xFF0000" weight="2"/>
               </mx:stroke>
          </mx:LegendItem>
     </mx:Legend>
     <mx:LineChart id="myChart" x="53" y="124" width="600" height="400" dataProvider="{platformsData}" showDataTips="true">
          <mx:series>
               <mx:LineSeries yField="id" displayName="Jobs" lineStroke="{s3}"/>
          </mx:series>
     </mx:LineChart>
</s:WindowedApplication>

Pie chart legend showing digit "1" when we set "ignore blank cells"property

All,
We have pie chart in Xcelsius 2008 that shows the data with legend value and we have also set the ignore blank cells property to ignore the blank value from column. but once we set this property, it displays the digit "1" in the legend when there is no data.
we are expecting that nothing should be displayed in pie chart legend when there is no data for the pie chart.
Thanks,
Sourabh

hi Sourabh,
I could replicate your scenario.
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