Empty Content

RadChartView displays a warning message if a main component from the chart's setup is missing. The exact message depends on the specific part that is not set.

The following table describes the situations when the chart is considered empty and it shows what messages are displayed in these cases.

Message	Reason for displaying
HorizontalAxis not set	The corresponding axis is not set
VerticalAxis not set	The corresponding axis is not set
PolarAxis not set	The corresponding axis is not set
AngleAxis not set	The corresponding axis is not set
No series added	There are no series added to the control
No data to plot	There is no data added to the defined series

When the axes are properly set but there is no series defined all charting components notify you with the “No series added” message. If the series are defined but the data of the series is not set, the message is “No data to plot”.

You can receive a "No data to plot" message, if you are using the NoXaml dlls and you have created a custom series or custom style. In that case, you should make sure to base the style of the custom series on the default one. For example, if you have defined a class named MyBarSeries, which inherits BarSeries, you can add the following style <Style TargetType="local:MyBarSeries" BasedOn="{StaticResource BarSeriesStyle}" />.

Setting up chart without series

<telerik:RadCartesianChart Background="#F6F6F6"> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
        <telerik:CategoricalAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis> 
        <telerik:LinearAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>             
</telerik:RadCartesianChart> 

Customizing the Content

The default empty content can be replaced using the EmptyContent and EmptyContentTemplate properties of the chart.

The user defined empty content will be displayed in all of the above mentioned cases.

The EmptyContent property is of type object and it allows to set the content that will be visualized when the charting component cannot display anything on the screen.

Setting the empty content

<telerik:RadCartesianChart EmptyContent="This is a custom empty content." Background="#F6F6F6"> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
        <telerik:CategoricalAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis> 
        <telerik:LinearAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>             
</telerik:RadCartesianChart> 

The EmptyContentTemplate property is of type DataTemplate and it allows setting a template that will be applied to the empty content presenter. The data context in the template is the object assigned to the EmptyContent property.

Setting the empty content template

<telerik:RadCartesianChart EmptyContent="Missing part of the chart setup.&#13;&#10;Make sure to add axes, series and data points."  
                           Background="#F6F6F6"> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.EmptyContentTemplate> 
        <DataTemplate> 
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> 
                <telerik:RadGlyph Glyph="&#xe403;" Foreground="Orange" FontSize="48"/> 
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding}" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="10 0 0 0" /> 
            </StackPanel> 
        </DataTemplate> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.EmptyContentTemplate> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
        <telerik:CategoricalAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis> 
        <telerik:LinearAxis /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>             
</telerik:RadCartesianChart> 

Hiding the Empty Content Message

To hide the empty content message, set the ShowEmptyContent property of the chart to false. This is useful when the chart axes should be displayed even if no data or no series are included.

Setting the ShowEmptyContent property

<telerik:RadCartesianChart ShowEmptyContent="False">             
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
        <telerik:LogarithmicAxis Minimum="1" Maximum="1000" /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis> 
        <telerik:LinearAxis Minimum="0" Maximum="1" MajorStep="0.2"/> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>             
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart.Grid> 
        <telerik:CartesianChartGrid MajorLinesVisibility="XY" /> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart.Grid> 
</telerik:RadCartesianChart>