Comments on: PIE CHART OBJECT AND VBA

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:19:45 +0000

I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I seem to need an “extra” column with “column name” for my first column. My data was in a crosstab like form (one record with 6 different columns), but it was was not really a crosstab. Access apparently thought that my first column was the column name so it ignored it in the calculation and then all my percentages were off. The strange thing is that I pasted everything starting with the second column but when I closed and came back to it, everything moved.

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:44:06 +0000

I downloaded the database above and it was helpful. I was a little disappointed that the example here (unlike the bar/column one)was so fancy with no queries, I would have preferred a dumbed down example like the bar/column one where I could follow the code (I am not a programmer). Anyway, I do not seem to be able to get my pie to work when I try to create one from scratch using the chart wizard. I only get a purple pie with a line to the center of it. Then I copied your report and pointed to my query and pasted and also pasted that into the a demo pie and it looked pretty good in that my pie divided into six with labels and values and different colors for each slice.

The problem is that I need to use percentages. My values/percentages do not match the demo and report view of the data so though it looks ok it is completely wrong.

My “crosstab” query for each column is:

79.74% 14.16% 4.47% 1.46% 0.17% 0.00%

My demo pie and report shows:

70 22 7 1

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Leah

By: a.p.r.pillai

a.p.r.pillai — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:37:08 +0000

Download a sample database with all the running programs of charts from the following link:

http://www.msaccesstips.com/downloads/2008/06/workingwith_chartobject.php

By: Hoodie

Hoodie — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:26:08 +0000

Thanks for all this information.

I created the table and used “number” for each of the fields except the first which is a “text” and is the primary key. When I ran the first part of the program using then command line I got a msg box that was “False” and asking for an entry. Could not get past that.

So I moved on to the second part, this area, and tried the pie chart. However, I am using 2003 and need to know what the error “Type Mismatch” is when the line:

With grphChart
.chartType = lngType
…..

runs? Can anyone help.