Customize chart settings or read existing chart?

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Is there a way to customize the words chart such as change the series colors? I don’t see any examples in the words Chart documentation around changing series colors. If not is there a way to get an existing chart from an existing words document?

2

Hi there,

Thanks for your inquiry. Unfortunately, Aspose.Words does not provide APIs to get or set chart series’ color. However, we have logged this feature request as WORDSNET-12640 in our issue tracking system. You will be notified via this forum thread once this feature is available. We apologize for your inconvenience.

wbd.net:
If not is there a way to get an existing chart from an existing words document?

Could you please share some detail about this query? We will then provide you more information on this.

3

Thanks for the response.

My query about getting an existing chart from an existing words document was for the purpose of using it as a template where a word document could be created manually with a manually styled chart and then that chart could be populated with data and saved to a new document file? That would get around the need right now to have api settings for changing chart colors.

4

Hi there,

Thanks for sharing the detail. The chart in the Word documents is imported into Shape node in Aspose.Words’ DOM. Please use NodeImporter.ImportNode method to import a node from one document into another.

Document docChart = new Document(MyDir + "in.docx");
Shape shape = (Shape)docChart.GetChild(NodeType.Shape, 0, true);
Document doc = new Document();
if (shape.HasChart)
{
    NodeImporter importer = new NodeImporter(docChart, doc, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
    Node newNode = importer.ImportNode(shape, true);
    doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(newNode);
}

If you face any issue, please share your template, input and expected output documents here for our reference. We will then provide you more information about your query along with code.

5

The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-12640) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for .NET 21.6 update and this Aspose.Words for Java 21.6 update.