Completed
Last Updated: 27 Feb 2015 21:22 by ADMIN
Cyndie
Created on: 01 Feb 2012 16:48
Category: Kendo UI for jQuery
Type: Feature Request
7
Add TickDistance, AutoRange and Step to Chart
Add TickDistance, AutoRange and Step to the line Chart like the Telerik RadChart.  When querying a web service and charting a dynamic/variable number of values, the current chart results in grid lines too close together and overlapping x-axis values.  This would space the grid lines and labels based on the number of values and available space.  This is from the RadChart documentation:

The TickDistance has to be used together with AutoRange. When AutoRange is set to True, the axis Step value is calculated depending on the data range, the available space and the TicksDistance value. Since TickDistance defines the minimal distance between two ticks, increasing its value will cause the Step value to be increased too.
4 comments
ADMIN
Telerik Admin
Posted on: 08 Mar 2012 17:10
Thanks for voicing your proposition.
ADMIN
T. Tsonev
Posted on: 08 Mar 2012 15:36
Hello,

Most of the mentioned problems are caused by the lack of a true Date axis. A stopgap measure is to emulate the Date axis by representing the time as milliseconds. Please see a working prototype here: http://jsbin.com/ihegav/edit#html,live

In addition, a labels.step option is available starting from the 2012 Q1 Beta release. It allows rendering every n-th label, but does not affect the ticks. 

Please, direct specific inquiries to the Kendo UI Forums.
Joseph
Posted on: 08 Mar 2012 01:17
Really need to fast track this feature - it's a huge gap for a charting solution to not have this kind of flexibility in the axis labels.
Patrick
Posted on: 27 Feb 2012 22:47
I second this: for a time series chart (e.g. most things to do with finances/investments over time), at present the x axis (or Category axes as it is called in Kendo UI) looks messy which is a pity because the rest of the stuff looks great!