Scatter Chart in Presentation Document

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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Scatter Chart report in Presentation 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.

Scatter Chart in Microsoft PowerPoint Document

Creating a Scatter Chart

Please following below steps to create Scatter Chart in MS PowerPoint 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 “XY (Scatter)”.
  3. Preview “Scatter” 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 show your customers’ orders prices by month with the following key requirements:

  • Report must show information on a Scatter Chart.
  • It must indicate Price of each order by month.
  • Report must be generated in the Presentation Document.

Adding Syntax to be evaluated by GroupDocs.Assembly Engine

Chart Title

Total Order Prices by Months<<foreach [in orders
.GroupBy(c => c.OrderDate.Month)]>>

Chart Data (Excel)

X-Values

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

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2.7

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2.6

0.8

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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 Scatter Chart Template

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

Generating The Report

Custom Objects

Database Entities

Using DataSet

Using XML DataSource

Using JSON DataSource

Scatter Chart in OpenOffice Presentation Document

To be investigated.