[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Charts: Is there a way to programmatically displ

[Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ameena,

I just added an example to birt-exchange that does this.  take a look at
http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/designing-birt-reports/590-chart-script-example-of-modifying-series-entries-in-the-legend/

Check the description for info on how it works.

Jason

Ameena wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a very simple line graph.
> Is there a way to set the value of a legend name in a non-hardcoded way??
>
> For example:
> Right now I have to go to Format Chart -> Series -> and then set the 
> name of the legend name in the 'Title' box.
>
> What I would like to do instead is have one of my MySQL attributes to be 
> the name of the legend. For example:
> select name from table => foo
>
> I would like "foo" to be the name of the legend, but have that retrieved 
> from the MySql query instead of hardcoding the name "foo". Is there a 
> way to do this?
>
> Thank you,
> Ameena