Pie chart labels pushed off edge at ~48-53%

b2tech

Hello:

I have a problem with pie charts pushing the "slice label" off the plot area when I have > ~48% or < ~53% slice for the FIRST data point. I am doing a clockwise orientation for the layout where the first slice is started at 3:00. It seems there is a problem dealing with these values in the BIRT "label layout code" for a pie chart.
Using/or not using a leader line is NOT the issue. I learned if I use a 15 degree shift of the pie, the labels WILL display correctly (in a different location obviously) but this causes all sorts of additional work in determining what the actual data is beforehand and then implementing the shift to the pie on just these reports.
Since report templates are auto generated beforehand it means I will need to keep extra versions of those templates that need to do the shift to fix the visual display of the pie labels. This would not even address when multiple pies charts are used within the same template. On a test run of 1200 reports, I had approximately 12 that had the pie labels pushed off the plot area. You can imagine what would happen in production with 50K reports.

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

BillH

JasonW

Bill


Have you looked at shrinking the pie chart using the coverage property?
Select the third tab of the chart wizard and choose Chart Area. Un-check the auto
check box and enter a value of 50.

Jason