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ruecj5
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10 years ago
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Remove parenthesis from pie chart labels

I have a report that utilizes pie charts with % based data labels and for some reason some of the values are showing with parenthesis around them and some are not.  The values are correct, but I woul...
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  • samdthompson's avatar
    samdthompson
    10 years ago

    Hi, you have done nothing wrong. Its a presentational failsafe so that if you had a label which was for example '5' and the result was 5% then if it were on one line with no parentheses it would look like 5 5%. Not a great result. You can see that if the label is on a second line its not in the brackets.

     

    To work around it if you need to try putting the value in as a tooltip. You might need a FIRSTNONBLANK(Value , 1) to make the tool tip work sucessfully. You might also need to turn off the value on the piechart values label.

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samdthompson
Memorable Member
10 years ago

Hi, you have done nothing wrong. Its a presentational failsafe so that if you had a label which was for example '5' and the result was 5% then if it were on one line with no parentheses it would look like 5 5%. Not a great result. You can see that if the label is on a second line its not in the brackets.

 

To work around it if you need to try putting the value in as a tooltip. You might need a FIRSTNONBLANK(Value , 1) to make the tool tip work sucessfully. You might also need to turn off the value on the piechart values label.