Column Chart in Presentation Document
Column Chart in Microsoft PowerPoint Document
Creating a Column Chart
Please follow below steps to create a column chart in MS PowerPoint 2013:
- Create a new presentation slide.
- Click the “Insert” tab, and then click “Chart” in the illustrations group to open the “Insert Chart” dialog box.
- Select “Column” in the sidebar, you will see a gallery of charts.
- Select the “100% Stacked Column” and press “OK” to insert the chart and Worksheet template to your document.
- Edit the Worksheet with your data to update the chart. See Chart Data (Excel).
- Save your Document.
Reporting Requirement
As a report developer, you are required to share orders quantity of the customers dynamically with the following key requirements:
- A report must show the quantity of sales/orders.
- Sales/orders quantity must represented by Quarters.
- It must associate order quantity with the corresponding customer.
- A report must be generated in the Presentation Document.
Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine
Chart Title
Total Order Quantity by Quarters<<foreach [in orders.Where(c => c.OrderDate.Year == 2015)
.GroupBy(c => c.Customer)
.OrderBy(g => g.Key.CustomerName)]>>
<<x [Key.CustomerName]>>
Chart Data (Excel)
| 1st Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.Date.Month >= 1 && c.Date.Month <= 3).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>> | 2nd Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.Date.Month >= 4 && c.Date.Month <= 6).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>> | 3rd Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.Date.Month >= 7 && c.Date.Month <= 9).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>> | 4th Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.Date.Month >= 10 && c.Date.Month <= 12).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>> |
Category 1 | 4.3 | 2.4 | 2 | 3 |
Category 2 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 2 | 2 |
Category 3 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 3 | 5 |
Category 4 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 5 | 2 |
Download Template
Please download the sample Chart Template we created in this article:
- Chart Template.pptx (Template for CustomObject and JSON examples)
- Chart Template_DB.pptx (Template for DataSet, DataBase examples)
- Chart Template_XML.pptx (Template for XML examples)
Generating The Report
Custom Objects
Database Entities
Using DataSet
Using XML DataSource
Using JSON DataSource
Column Chart in OpenOffice Presentation Document
To be investigated.