This recipe will introduce you to some of the undocumented features available to the chart component in Dynamics CRM. When building a chart, Dynamics CRM will provide labels for the axis, but they are not the most user-friendly. This recipe will show you how to override those standard labels with something more meaningful along with setting formats for the Series data labels.
This recipe assumes that you are working with the chart created earlier in the Exporting a chart recipe. This chapter also assumes that the reader has access to an XML editor such as Microsoft Visual Studio.
Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:
Locate the exported Chart XML file (either System chart or user chart) that was created in the earlier recipe. Open the XML file in the editor of your choice.
In order to change the axis labels, locate the
<AxisY>
element inside the<ChartArea>
element. Add a new property...