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Pie charts
To get started creating a chart, see Creating quick charts for Creating and editing charts in Layout
mode.
To set up a pie chart:
1. Find the records you want to chart. See Making a find request.
If you are charting delimited data stored in a single record or data from related records, you
must specify data source settings. See
Specifying the data source for a chart.
2. In the Chart Setup dialog box, for Type choose Pie.
3. For Category Labels, click , choose Specify Field Name or Specify Calculation,
complete the dialog box, and click OK. This is the data you are comparing (for example,
company names) and determines the labels for each slice of the pie.
4. For Slice Data, click to specify a data series. This is the data you are measuring (for
example, annual sales), which determines the width of each slice in the pie.
5. If you’re creating a quick chart and it contains summary data, you can click the Summary
menu in the Chart inspector and select a different summary type. See
Summary types for
charts.
6. Select Show Legend to display a legend in the chart.
7. Select options for the chart.
Tip It’s not necessary to label all data points on a chart.
To Do this
Display category label values Select Show values on chart.
Display the percentage of the
total each slice represents
Select Percentages.
Specify the number of decimal
places in percentages
Enter a number for Fixed number of decimals.
Display data values for slice
data
Select Actual values.
Specify the field type for slice
data
For Data Type, choose a field type, then choose data format
characteristics. For example, you can display number data
as a decimal, percentage, or as currency.
Notes
• Custom decimals or thousand separators must be
ASCII printable characters. The tilde character (~) is not
allowed.
• Decimal digits must be from 0 (zero) to 99.
• You must enter a positive number for Fixed number of
decimals.
Display slice data values as
stored in the database, as a
decimal or percentage, or as
currency
For Format, choose a value.