Charts ... the bane of my templating life ... our chart dialog is getting better and better but you're still going to need to tweak things that we are just not going to get to anytime soon. Case in point (thanks for the question Neida), I have a pie chart that looks like this:
but I want this
See the percentage values have been rounded up, you'll laso notice that the actual chart is bigger in its frame (yes the image is larger but the chart itself fills the plot area better), its not a trick, because the labels take less room then the actual chart can fill the space. We're concerned with the rounding for this post. Its not the XML data that we need to round but we need to instruct the charting engine to do the rounding for us on the calculated pie slice values. I had to dig and dig, I have written in the past about the graph.dtd and trying to decode it using an XML editor and fooling JDeveloper into helping us visually but for this little gem I thankfully found the answer on the Oracle Reports graph FAQ.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/htdocs/faq/Graph_FAQ_with_style.html
The solution for this particular issue is to override the default slice labels thus:
<SliceLabel>
<ViewFormat decimalDigit="0" decimalDigitUsed="true" decimalSeparatorUsed="true" />
</SliceLabel>
Please, if you have charting questions take a look see here, there are some 40 questions and answers and you can use most of them in your charts. If you can not find the answer drop us a message on the forum and we can help.
