Pie Chart in Spreadsheet Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Pie Chart report 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.

Pie Chart in Microsoft Excel Document

Creating a Pie Chart

Please follow below steps to create Pie Chart in MS Excel 2013.

  1. Add a new Workbook.
  2. Click in the workbook where you want to insert the chart, click the “Insert” tab, and then click “Pie Chart Icon” in the charts group.
  3. A drop-down with charts will appear, select the “Pie” and press “OK” to insert the chart.
  4. Click on the chart you just inserted, then click the “Change Data” icon in Data group.
  5. Now add legend entries. See Chart Data
  6. Save your Document.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to share your customers’ orders details dynamically with the following key requirements:

  • The report must show information on a Pie Chart.
  • It must indicate customer name with value (price of the orders purchased).
  • The report must be generated in the Spreadsheet Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

Chart Title

Total Order Price<<foreach [in customers]>>
<<x [CustomerName]>>

Chart Data

Legend Entries

="Total Order Price<<y [Order.Sum(c => c.Price)]>>"
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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 Pie Chart Template

Please download the sample Pie Chart document we created in this article:

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Pie Chart in OpenOffice Spreadsheet Document

To be investigated.