Chart Category Groups

Chart Category Groups is the optional mechanism of grouping data that provides the labels for chart elements.

For example, in a column chart, Country Name fields placed in the Category region generate country labels for x-axes (United States, Italy, and so forth).

You can nest categories. Multiple categories nest x-axes labels. For example, in a column chart with sales data, the first category group could be a county, and the second category group could be TerritoryId. The column chart would display groupings of products by TerritoryId on the x-axis.

Following is the RDL that describes a Category grouping. From this point forward, the section surrounded by the <CategoryGroupings> tag is abbreviatedas {CATEGORY GROUPS}.

 <CategoryGroupings>     <CategoryGrouping>       <DynamicCategories>         <Grouping Name="chart1_CategoryGroup1">           <GroupExpressions>             <GroupExpression>=Fields!SalesOrderNumber.Value</GroupExpression>           </GroupExpressions>         </Grouping>        <Label>=Fields!SalesOrderNumber.Value</Label>     </DynamicCategories>   </CategoryGrouping> </CategoryGroupings>