Column Chart in Spreadsheet Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Column Chart Report with Filtered, Ordered and Grouped Data in Spreadsheet Document format based on the use case: Working with a Business Case.
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The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

Column Chart in Microsoft Excel Document

Creating a Column Chart

Following below steps, you can create 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 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 Spreadsheet 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

Legend Entries

="1st Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.OrderDate.Month >= 1 && c.OrderDate.Month <= 3).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>>"
="2nd Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.OrderDate.Month >= 4 && c.OrderDate.Month <= 6).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>>"
="3rd Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.OrderDate.Month >= 7 && c.OrderDate.Month <= 9).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>>"
="4th Quarter<<y [Where(c => c.OrderDate.Month >= 10 && c.OrderDate.Month <= 12).Sum(c => c.ProductQuantity)]>>"
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For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Download Template

Please download the sample Chart with Filtering, Grouping, and Ordering document we created in this article:

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Column Chart in OpenOffice Spreadsheet Document

To be investigated.