Formatting the pies/donuts

To format the pies/donuts of a pie/donut chart, follow the steps below:

  1. Right-click any portion of a pie/donut in the pie/donut chart, and then click Format Pie/Donut on the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Pie/Donut dialog.
  2. In the General tab, set the general settings for the pies/donuts.

    In the Gap Amount field, enter a number to set the distance between every two adjacent pies/donuts. In the Explode Amount field, enter a number to specify the distance between the sections in each pie/donut and the pie/donut center. In the Data Label Type field, specify the type of the data labels for the pie/donut sections. For a donut chart, you can also specify the radius percentage of the donut hole to the total pie circle by setting the option Donut Hole.

  3. In the Fill tab, specify the fill type: Use Single Color or Use Single Color with Condition.

    If you select Use Single Color as the fill type, click the color image button and select a color swatch to fill the selected sections in the same data series, and specify transparency of the color schema (you can also directly type the hexadecimal value of the desired color in the text box). If the color swatches cannot meet your requirement, click More Colors on the color palette to open the Pick a Color dialog, with which you can set a full range of color, or click More Fill Effects to specify the fill effect in the Fill Effects dialog. You can also click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for sections in the same data series respectively in the Color List dialog.

    If you select Use Single Color with Condition, specify the conditions and the color pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding conditional color fill to a chart.

  4. In the Border tab, set the border mode for the sections, including the border style, color, transparency, line style, thickness, end caps style, and line joint mode. You can also specify whether the border is to be outlined, and whether or not to automatically resize the border dashes if the border is drawn with dashes.
  5. In the Data Label tab, specify whether or not to show static data labels for every section, and if to show, the position of the label related to the section and the color of the thin lines that are used to point to the static data labels. In the Font and Effects boxes, set the font formats and effects of the data labels.
  6. In the Behaviors tab (this tab is only available to library components), select a trigger event from the drop-down list in the Events column, then click in the Actions column and click that appears in the text box to open the Web Action List dialog, where you can bind a web action to the pies/donuts which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the pies/donuts.

    To add a web behavior line, click , and if a web behavior is not required, click to remove it.

    Click or to adjust the order of the behaviors. Then, when an event that has been bound with more than one action happens, the upper action will be triggered first.

    The web actions you can bind to the pies/donuts include Filter, Sort, Parameter, Property and SendMessage. For details about these web actions, refer to Applying web actions to a label.

  7. When done, click OK to apply the settings and close the dialog.

See also the following dialogs for detailed explanation about options in each dialog: