Create and Manage Chart

Creating Charts

Simply Creating a Chart

It’s simple to create a chart with Aspose.Cells with the following example codes:

Things to Know for Creating a Chart

Before creating charts it’s important to understand some basic concepts that are helpful when creating charts using Aspose.Cells.

Charting Objects

Aspose.Cells provides a special set of classes in the Aspose.Cells.Charts namespace used to create the charts supported by Aspose.Cells. These classes are used to create charting objects, which act as the chart building blocks. The charting objects are listed below:

  • Series, a single data series in a chart.
  • Axis, a chart’s axis.
  • Chart, a single Excel chart.
  • ChartArea, the chart area in the worksheet.
  • ChartDataTable, a chart data table.
  • ChartFrame, the frame object in a chart.
  • ChartPoint, a single point in a series in a chart.
  • ChartPointCollection, a collection that contains all the points in one series.
  • Charts, a collection of Chart objects.
  • DataLabels, a collection of all the DataLabel objects for the specified series.
  • FillFormat, fill format for a shape.
  • Floor, the floor of a 3D chart.
  • Legend, the chart legend.
  • Line, the chart line.
  • SeriesCollection, a collection of Series objects.
  • TickLabels, the tick mark labels associated with tick marks on a chart axis.
  • Title, the title of a chart or axis.
  • Trendline, a trendline in a chart.
  • TrendlineCollection, a collection of all Trendline objects for the specified data series.
  • Walls, the walls of a 3D chart.

Using Charting Objects

As mentioned above, all charting objects are instances of their respective classes and provide specific properties and methods to perform specific tasks. Use charting objects to create charts.

Add any type of chart to a worksheet using the Charts collection. Each item in the Charts collection represents a Chart object. A Chart object encapsulates all other charting objects required to customize the appearance of the chart. The next section shows how to use a few basic charting objects to create a simple chart.

Create Chart Using Aspose.Cells

Steps:

  1. Add some data to worksheet cells with the Cell object’s PutValue method. This will be used as the data source for the chart.
  2. Add a chart to the worksheet by calling the Charts collection’s Add method, encapsulated in the Worksheet object.
  3. Specify the type of chart with the ChartType enumeration. For example, the example below uses the ChartType.Pyramid value as the chart type.
  4. Access the new Chart object from the Charts collection by passing its index.
  5. Use any of the charting objects encapsulated in the Chart object to manage the chart. The example below uses the SeriesCollection charting object to specify the chart’s data source.

When adding source data to chart, the data source can be a range of cells (such as “A1:C3”), or a sequence of non-contiguous cells (such as “A1, A3, A5”), or a sequence of values (such as “1,2,3”).

These general steps allow you to create any type of chart. Use different charting objects to create different charts.

It is possible to create many different types of charts with Aspose.Cells. All standard charts supported by Aspose.Cells are pre-defined in an enumeration named Aspose.Cells.Charts.ChartType.

The pre-defined chart types are:

Chart Types Description
Column Represents Clustered Column Chart
ColumnStacked Represents Stacked Column Chart
Column100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Column Chart
Column3DClustered Represents 3D Clustered Column Chart
Column3DStacked Represents 3D Stacked Column Chart
Column3D100PercentStacked Represents 3D 100% Stacked Column Chart
Column3D Represents 3D Column Chart
Bar Represents Clustered Bar Chart
BarStacked Represents Stacked Bar Chart
Bar100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Bar Chart
Bar3DClustered Represents 3D Clustered Bar Chart
Bar3DStacked Represents 3D Stacked Bar Chart
Bar3D100PercentStacked Represents 3D 100% Stacked Bar Chart
Line Represents Line Chart
LineStacked Represents Stacked Line Chart
Line100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Line Chart
LineWithDataMarkers Represents Line Chart with data markers
LineStackedWithDataMarkers Represents Stacked Line Chart with data markers
Line100PercentStackedWithDataMarkers Represents 100% Stacked Line Chart with data markers
Line3D Represents 3D Line Chart
Pie Represents Pie Chart
Pie3D Represents 3D Pie Chart
PiePie Represents Pie of Pie Chart
PieExploded Represents Exploded Pie Chart
Pie3DExploded Represents 3D Exploded Pie Chart
PieBar Represents Bar of Pie Chart
Scatter Represents Scatter Chart
ScatterConnectedByCurvesWithDataMarker Represents Scatter Chart connected by curves, with data markers
ScatterConnectedByCurvesWithoutDataMarker Represents Scatter Chart connected by curves, without data markers
ScatterConnectedByLinesWithDataMarker Represents Scatter Chart connected by lines, with data markers
ScatterConnectedByLinesWithoutDataMarker Represents Scatter Chart connected by lines, without data markers
Area Represents Area Chart
AreaStacked Represents Stacked Area Chart
Area100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Area Chart
Area3D Represents 3D Area Chart
Area3DStacked Represents 3D Stacked Area Chart
Area3D100PercentStacked Represents 3D 100% Stacked Area Chart
Doughnut Represents Doughnut Chart
DoughnutExploded Represents Exploded Doughnut Chart
Radar Represents Radar Chart
RadarWithDataMarkers Represents Radar Chart with data markers
RadarFilled Represents Filled Radar Chart
Surface3D Represents 3D Surface Chart
SurfaceWireframe3D Represents Wireframe 3D Surface Chart
SurfaceContour Represents Contour Chart
SurfaceContourWireframe Represents Wireframe Contour Chart
Bubble Represents Bubble Chart
Bubble3D Represents 3D Bubble Chart
Cylinder Represents Cylinder Chart
CylinderStacked Represents Stacked Cylinder Chart
Cylinder100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Cylinder Chart
CylindericalBar Represents Cylindrical Bar Chart.
CylindericalBarStacked Represents Stacked Cylindrical Bar Chart
CylindericalBar100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Cylindrical Bar Chart
CylindericalColumn3D Represents 3D Cylindrical Column Chart
Cone Represents Cone Chart
ConeStacked Represents Stacked Cone Chart
Cone100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Cone Chart
ConicalBar Represents Conical Bar Chart
ConicalBarStacked Represents Stacked Conical Bar Chart
ConicalBar100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Conical Bar Chart
ConicalColumn3D Represents 3D Conical Column Chart
Pyramid Represents Pyramid Chart
PyramidStacked Represents Stacked Pyramid Chart
Pyramid100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Pyramid Chart
PyramidBar Represents Pyramid Bar Chart
PyramidBarStacked Represents Stacked Pyramid Bar Chart
PyramidBar100PercentStacked Represents 100% Stacked Pyramid Bar Chart
PyramidColumn3D Represents 3D Pyramid Column Chart

Pyramid Chart

When the example code is executed, a pyramid chart is added to the worksheet.

Line Chart

In the above example, simply changing the ChartType to Line creates a line chart. The complete source is provided below. when the code is executed, a line chart is added to the worksheet.

Bubble Chart

In order to create a bubble chart, the ChartType has to be set to ChartType.Bubble and few extra properties such as BubbleSizes, Values & XValues need to be set accordingly. Upon executing the following code, a bubble chart is added to the worksheet.

Line with Data Marker Chart

In order to create a line with the data marker chart, ChartType has to be set to ChartType.LineWithDataMarkers and few extra properties such as background area,Series Markers, Values & XValues need to be set accordingly. Upon executing the following code, a line with the data marker chart is added to the worksheet.

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