Pie legendIntroduction

Chart or diagram legends are intended to provide a visual representation of data in a table, thereby communicating a lot of information very easily.

In particular this extension allows two types of legends to be constructed:


Display and selection of pie charts

The pie legend is located in the Multiple attributes section of the legend tree, and can be used to represent several attributes at once. To access it, right-click on the layer name to open the Properties and then select the symbols tab.

The following options are available for configuring the pie charts:

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Symbols. Pie legend

Fields: You can choose which of the layer's fields to represent, provided they are numeric. With these fields you can:

To do this click on the buttons shown in the image above (Box 1).

Colour scheme: You can change the default colour scheme for the pies. To do this select the desired "Colour scheme" from the drop-down list, as shown in the image above (Box 2).

Change the colour: In addition it is possible to change the colour of pie slices once they have been added.

Once the default colour scheme has been chosen, the colour of a pie slice can be changed by double-clicking on its color.

The following dialog is displayed where you can select a colour sample or set it yourself (HSB, RGB).

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Symbols. Color Selection

Background symbol: You can change the symbol of the background geometries by clicking on the symbol to open the symbol editor (pictured above, Box 3).

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Symbols. Symbol Selector

Outline: You can display an outline with a specified colour and thickness around the pie slices. Tick the "Show" check box to draw outlines around the pie sectors.

Dimension: Tick the check box to display the pie in 3D. By default the pie is drawn in 2D.

Preview chart: Any changes made are reflected on the chart preview.


Chart size options

Click the 'Size' button located in the pie legend configuration screen.

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Pie Legend. Size button

Clicking this will open the following dialog:

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Pie Legend. Configuring size

There are three options for setting the size of the diagrams:

In addition to setting the size of the pie, the units can also be specified.

Units: Select units (meters, pixels ...) and representation (in the world or print layout), depending on your requirements. If the units are set to "in the world" then the size will depend on the View's zoom level, while selecting "print layout" results in a fixed size, both on the screen and when printed.

Active Limits: Limits can be specified if the size of the chosen field size is not set to the "Fixed Size" option.

Activating limits for the other options sets the minimum and maximum values of a particular measure (Sum of field values or Field size). Taking the limits into account, the intermediate field values are calculated in proportion to the values ​​of the records of the field, or to the sum of the field values.


Draw pie charts for selected geometries only

This option is used to restrict the drawing of pie charts to selected geometries.

The geometries can be selected either before or after configuring the pie chart size and display options.

In order to represent pie charts for selected geometries, simply activate the check box Draw only selection in the pie legend configuration dialog.

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Check to display pie charts for selected geometries only

The following image shows an example in which pie charts are only shown for selected geometries (shown in yellow).

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Example showing pie charts for selected geometries


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