Pie Chart in Word Processing Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Pie Chart report in Word Processing Document format based on the use case: Working with a Business Case.
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The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

Pie Chart in Microsoft Word Document

Creating a Pie Chart

Please follow below steps to can create Pie Chart in MS Word 2013.

  1. Click in the document where you want to insert the chart, click the “Insert” tab, and then click “Chart” in the illustrations group to open the “Insert Chart” dialog box.
  2. Select “Pie”.
  3. Preview “Pie” and press OK to insert the chart and Worksheet template to your document.
  4. Edit the Worksheet with your data to update the chart. See Chart Data (Excel)
  5. Save the template.

Reporting Requirement

As a report developer, you are required to share your customers’ orders details dynamically with the following key requirements:

  • The report must show information on a Pie Chart.
  • It must indicate customer name with value (price of the orders purchased).
  • The report must be generated in the Word Processing Document.
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See the video demonstration of Pie Chart in MS Word here.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

Chart Title

Total Order Price<<foreach [in customers]>>
<<x [CustomerName]>>

Chart Data (Excel)

Total Order Price<<y [Order.Sum(c => c.Price)]>>

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For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Download Pie Chart Template

Please download the sample Pie Chart document we created in this article:

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Pie Chart in OpenOffice Document

To be investigated.