Chart Series Coloring in Spreadsheet Document

Chart Series Coloring in Spreadsheet Document 

Creating a Column Chart

Practising the following steps, you can insert a Column Chart in  MS Excel 2013:

  1. Create a new Workbook.
  2. Click the “Insert” tab, and then click “Insert Column Chart” icon in the Charts group to view the drop-down list.
  3. Select the “100% Stacked Column” and press “OK” to insert the chart and Worksheet template to your Worksheet.
  4. Edit the Worksheet with your data to update the chart. See Chart Data.
  5. Save your Document.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to share contract price by manager dynamically with the following key requirements:

  • The report must show the  name of the manager
  • The report must show the total contract price for each manager 
  • Series color to be used in chart series 
  • The report must be generated in the Spreadsheet Document

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

Chart Title

<Total Contract Prices by Managers<<foreach [m in
managers]>><<x [m.Manager]>>

Legend Entries

="Total Contract Price<<y [m.Total_Contract_Price]>><<seriesColor [color]>>"

Download Template

Please download the sample Dynamic Chart Series Color document we created in this article:

Generating The Report

For a chart with dynamic data, you can set colors of chart series dynamically based upon expressions. To use the feature, do the following steps:

  • Declare a chart with dynamic data in the usual way

  • For chart series to be colored dynamically, define corresponding color expressions in names of these series using seriesColor tags having the following syntax:

    <<seriesColor [color_expression]>>
    

A color expression must return a value of one of the following types:

  • A string containing the name of a known color, that is, the case-insensitive name of a member of the KnownColor enumeration such as “red”
  • An integer value defining RGB (red, green, blue) components of the color such as 0xFFFF00 (yellow)
  • A value of the Color type

Following code snippet generates the report:

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