Creating donut charts

Use donut charts to show the relative size of things such as the number of laptops, tablets, and mobile phones in relation to the total number of assets.

Procedure

1. Click Dashboard. 
2. Click Add Widget.
3. Select the Donut chart as the chart type. 
4. Enter the chart name.
5. Choose who can view the chart. By default, the chart is visible to all users who have dashboard privileges.
6. Select Allow table view. When selected, users can switch from chart to table view.
7. From the Default counter type list, you can select either percentage or number of records. 
8. Enter a link to a document to provide users with more information about the dashboard.
9. Enter the label for the document link, such as Learn more, which will be shown on the dashboard.    

Tip
When the dashboard is generated, you can toggle the values from numbers to percentages.

Data Source, Measurement y-axis, and Dimension x-axis

1. From the Object list, select a module such as Assets.
2. Select an object or a saved search to add data to the chart.
3. From the Calculation type list, choose Sum or Total.
4. Enter the name of the label that you want to show on the x-axis.
5. From the Field list, select a field.
6. In the Empty value title field, enter the name of the label that you want to show when no data is available.
7. Choose the selection type, the number of slices that you want to be shown in the chart, and the display order.
8. Optional. Select Other. This option is available only for system fields. That is, if you select a custom field, this option is not available.  
9. Click SAVE. 

Dimension (X-Axis)

Name

The name of the label for the x-axis.

Field

The data source for x-axis values.

Empty Value Title

The name of the label for the column in bar charts or slice in donut charts such as No Values. Displays the total number and percentage of records that don't have any values. 

Selection Type

You can choose one of the following options:

• Top by. Select items with the highest values.
• Bottom by. Select items with the lowest values.
• Manual. Choose the items that you want to show in the chart.

Show

Specify the number of slices that you want to show in the chart. 

Display Order

Choose one of the following display orders:

• A-Z
• Z-A
• Ascending
• Descending

Other

Shows an additional segment . You can use this option to declutter the donut chart by showing less segments. If the numbers of segments (default 10) is equal to or greater than the number of options available for the field that you select in the Dimension (X-axis) section, then the other value is 0% . If it is less, then the total % for the field option or options are shown in the Other segment.

Example

Number of asset type options = 18
You change the show segment value to 17 segments.
The option with the lowest total value is shown in the Other segment.