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Working with Portfolio View Pie Charts

A pie chart is a circular chart divided into slices, where each slice represents a particular group. The size of the slice represents the value of the selected data field, relative to the group's total value. A pie chart is useful for analyzing relative parts of a whole.

Example 1: You can create a pie chart to analyze current budget for projects, based on project status. To do this, customize the chart and select Current Budget as the data field, then choose to group by Project Status. When the chart displays, each slice represents a single project status (e.g., Planned, Active, Inactive, What If); the size of the slice represents the current budget value for all projects assigned the project status.

Example 2: The pie chart below shows At Completion Total Costs in slices representing Location.

Pie chart on the Portfolio Analysis page

Table of Common Pie Chart Elements

Item

Description

item one

Portfolio Analysis toolbar.

item  two

Portfolio Analysis settings area.

item  three

More and Basic buttons: Click More "" to display more options in the Portfolio Analysis Settings area. Click Basic "" to hide the additional settings.

item  four

Legend: Based on the Group By field, each item in the legend is given a color based on the selected color theme.

item five

Slice: Each data group's proportionate contribution to the total is represented by a color-coded wedge or piece of the pie. In the example, this slice represents Mainland Europe's cost of 163,385 which equates to 13% of the At Completion Total Cost by Location.

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