Report border cutting off pie chart labels on dashboard

Playing with the size did allow me to get one particular chart to look okay. As I messed with my filters I was able to produce a chart where all the labels were within the frame, but two of the labels were overlapping each other (on a chart with only 3 sections, and there seemed to me plenty of white space the labels could be spread out into). I know it's not simple to program a label placement algorithm that will handle any number of labels for any combination of slice sizes, but there's definitely room for improvement in Yellowfin's algorithm.

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for your response. I understand your frustration. There is a complete dashboard redesign forthcoming with Version 8, which is tentatively slated for release towards end of Summer, so I'm hoping that will improve upon this aspect! I know just messing around with the pieces of the chart/placement on dashboard isn't ideal, but hopefully you can still build dashboard's that are functional and that you're happy with in the mean time. That being the case, I'm going to go ahead and mark this as Resolved. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Mike

This continues to be an issue as I work with pie charts. I really feel that Yellowfin's code which is dynamically placing chart labels need to be revisited and improved upon. Below is an example where your formulas placed labels overlapping one another when there was plenty of other room for those labels to be placed in. A tool designed expressly for visualizing data should not literally obscure the data from the user. Please log this as a defect:

Hi Stephen,

Sorry to hear you're still struggling with this. I've gone ahead and raised a defect. Any potential updates regarding this matter will be posted here.

Regards,

Mike

Hi Mike, I still experience this in YF 9.3 so just noting/voting for this issue and hoping it the defect can be addressed?

Thanks,

Brendan

Hi Brendan,

Thanks for reaching out. I've gone ahead and added you to the client list in our internal task of those being impacted by this defect. I should note though there's an additional potential workaround in 9.3. There are the old grid-style Dashboards that you'd see in previous versions, but there are also now Canvas Dashboards, which allows you to resize Chart widgets manually to pretty much any size you want, anywhere you want, on the Dashboard, which should allow for all the labels to display in situations they may not have when locked to a grid.

There are currently no further updates in the task, but the additional vote is noted!

Regards,

Mike

Just throwing my 2 cents in on this one...

Having the ability to adjust the length of the lines between the label and the chart would be a help with this issue. We frequently have to use JS charts for donut/pie charts rather than the inbuilt ones for this very reason.

Thanks for your 2 cents Lex!!! Much appreciated that you've passed on an alternative solution :) Keep em coming!