Doughnut Chart

The Doughnut chart allows you to showcase the proportionality of each item to the total in the form of doughnut-slices. It works best to display data with a small number of categories.

How to configure table data in the Doughnut Chart

The Doughnut chart needs a minimum of one value element and one column element to showcase. The measure or expression field that you want to analyze can be dropped into the Values block. The dimension for which you want to categorize the measure can be dropped into the Columns block. To categorize based on a series, drop the respective dimension into the Rows block.

Follow the below steps to configure the data to the doughnut chart.

1. Drag and drop the Doughnut chart into the canvas and resize it to your required size.

2. Click the Data Source icon in the configuration panel.

3. Click the CREATE NEW button to launch a new connection from the connection type panel.

4. In the connection type panel, click any one of the listed connection type buttons shown. Here, the Microsoft Excel connection type is selected for demonstration.

5. In the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel, choose the file path and click the Preview & Connect button.

6. Drag your preferred table or view from the left pane from the data design view and click the Save button.

7. Click the Properties icon in the configuration panel. The property pane opens.

8. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA tab.

9. The ASSIGN DATA tab will be opened with available measures and dimensions from the connected data source.

10. You can add the required data from Measures and Dimensions sections to the required field.

Adding values

You can add more than one measures section to the Value(s) field by dragging the required data.

Now, the doughnut chart will be rendered as follows.

Click Settings to change the required summary type from the available summary types shown in the settings.

You can filter the data displayed in the Doughnut Chart by using the Filter option. For more details, refer to the filter.

You can format the data displayed in the Doughnut Chart by using the Format option. For more details, refer to the measure format

To remove the added value fields, click Remove.

Adding columns

You can add data from the Dimension field to the Column(s) field.

The Doughnut chart will be rendered as follows.

Add more than one value to the Columns field. The following alert message will open.

You can enable this option to get further details about the selected chart region. To enable drill down, click Yes.

NOTE: If you click No, a single value will be added to the Columns field.

The drilled view of the selected chart region will be as follows.

You can change the Settings.

You can sort the dimension data using the Sort option under the Settings menu list. To apply sorting for data, refer to the Sort.

You can apply filters by selecting the filter option in settings.

For more details, refer to the filter.

NOTE: By default, the filter will be set for the top 5 records.

Similarly, you can add the Measures and Expression Columns to the Column field.

Assigning rows

You can drag and drop the Dimension field into the Rows field.

You can apply filter and sort options for the rows field, if required.

This will render a Doughnut chart in a series.

Scroll down to see all charts.

How to format Doughnut Chart

You can format the Doughnut Chart for better illustration of the view by using the settings available in the Properties tab.

To configure data in Doughnut Chart, follow these steps:

1. Drag and drop the Doughnut Chart into the canvas and resize it to your required size.

2. Configure data in the Doughnut Chart.

3. Focus on the Doughnut chart and click the Widget Settings icon.

The property window will be opened as follows.

You can see the list of properties available for the widget with default value.

General Settings

Name

Allows you to set a title for the Doughnut chart widget.

Subtitle

Allows you to set a subtitle for the Doughnut chart widget.

Description

Set a description for the Doughnut chart, whose visibility will be denoted by i icon, and hovering over it will display the description in a tooltip.

Basic settings

Chart type

Switch the widget view from the current chart type to another chart type.

Enable animation

It animates the measure values when you enable the Enable Animation.

Show legend

A Legend is a text used to describe the plotted data. It allows you to toggle the visibility of the legend in the chart and change the legend text position (selecting through the combo box).

Enabling the Custom Legend Text option will allow you to define a custom text (through the text area) to display for each legend series (selecting through the combo box) in the chart.

Legend Label Color

This allows you to change the chart legend title and label colors.

Customize

You can customize the legend text through the Custom Legend Settings dialog. This dialog will show the legend text list as labels at left and corresponding text area at right to add the formatted text to display instead.

After customize the legend

Legend Position

You can able to change the position for the legend at Top, Left, Right and Bottom.

Legend Shape

This allows you to change the shape of the legend.

Circle

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend in a Circle.

Series Type

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend in Series.

Legend Title

This allows you to add the legend title for the chart. It will reflect with the Show Legend.

Show value labels

Toggle the visibility of value labels.

Value Label Color

This allows you to customize value label’s color.

Data label

You can able to define the display format as a category, value, percentage, category and value, value and percentage, category and percentage, or all details.

Category

Value

Percentage

Category and Value

Value and percentage

Category and Percentage

All Details

Value labels suffix

Set a suffix for the value labels.

Filter

Act as Master Widget

It defines the Doughnut chart widget as a master widget such that its filter action will be shown in other widgets of the dashboard.

Ignore filter actions

It defines the Doughnut chart widget to ignore the filter actions applied to other widgets in the dashboard.

Hierarchical Filter

Through this option, you can enable or disable hierarchical Top N filtering. While applying the Top N filter with multiple dimension columns, the data returned can be customized based on whether the filtering needs to be done as flat or based on the hierarchy of added dimension columns.

When the Hierarchical Filter option is enabled, the Top N will be applied for each individual column separately based on the number set for each column.

Link

You can enable linking and configure navigating to a general URL with or without parameters. For more details, refer to the Linking.

Series palette

By toggling the series palette, you can customize the proportion series segments’ colors.

Based On

You can choose the field from the Based On section to apply the conditions.

This section shows a palette of colors. By clicking the colored square, the color picker will open. You can choose a color and change the color by changing the corresponding hexadecimal value at the right.

Use Default Palette

This option shows when you add more than one measure field to the Value(s).

By toggle off the Use Default Palette, you can customize the proportion series segments’ colors by clicking the colored squares.

Container Appearance

Title Alignment

This allows you to handle the alignment of widget title to either left, center, or right.

Title Color

This allows you to apply the text color to the widget title.

Title Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the title will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Title Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 44.

Subtitle Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the subtitle will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Subtitle Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 32.

Show Border

This allows you to toggle the visibility of border surrounding the widget.

Corner Radius

This allows you to apply the specified radius to the widget corners if the Show Border is enabled. Value can be between 0 and 10.

Show Background Image

This allow you to set the background image for the spline area chart widget.

Background Color

This allows you to set the background color to the spline area chart widget.

Transparency

This property allows you to specifies the transparency for the background color.

Container actions

Show Header

This allows you to enable or disable the widget title of the spline area chart.

Allow Maximize View

This allows you to enable or disable the maximized mode of the spline area chart widget. The visibility of the maximize icon in the widget header will be defined based on the setting in the viewer.

Allow CSV Export

This allows you to enable or disable the CSV export option for the spline area chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to CSV format in the viewer.

Allow Excel Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Excel export option for the spline area chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to (.xlsx or .xls) format in the viewer.

Allow Image Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Image export option for the spline area chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to image format (.jpg), (.png), or (.bmp) in the viewer.

Allow PDF Export

This allows you to enable or disable the PDF export option for the spline area chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to pdf format in the viewer.

Enable Comments

This allows you to enable or disable comment for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to this link.

Allow View Underlying Data

This allows you to visualize the raw data associated with a widget at runtime.

Allow Pin

This allows you to pin the widget.