Adding Stacked Bar Chart to Excel worksheet

14 Mar 20232 minutes to read

A stacked bar chart is a type of bar chart used in excel for the graphical representation of part-to-whole comparison over time. This helps you to represent data in a stacked manner. This type of graph is suitable for data which is represented in different parts and one as a whole.

The following code snippet illustrate how to add Stacked Bar chart to Excel worksheet using Flutter XlsIO.

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  • // Create a new Excel document.
    final Workbook workbook = Workbook();
    
    // Accessing worksheet via index.
    final Worksheet sheet = workbook.worksheets[0];
    
    // Setting value in the cell.
    sheet.getRangeByName('A1').setText('Name');
    sheet.getRangeByName('B1').setText('Salary');
    sheet.getRangeByName('C1').setText('Working hr');
    sheet.getRangeByName('A2').setText('Ben');
    sheet.getRangeByName('A3').setText('Mark');
    sheet.getRangeByName('A4').setText('Sundar');
    sheet.getRangeByName('A5').setText('Geo');
    sheet.getRangeByName('A6').setText('Andrew');
    sheet.getRangeByName('B2').setNumber(1000);
    sheet.getRangeByName('B3').setNumber(2000);
    sheet.getRangeByName('B4').setNumber(2392);
    sheet.getRangeByName('B5').setNumber(3211);
    sheet.getRangeByName('B6').setNumber(4211);
    sheet.getRangeByName('C2').setNumber(287);
    sheet.getRangeByName('C3').setNumber(355);
    sheet.getRangeByName('C4').setNumber(134);
    sheet.getRangeByName('C5').setNumber(581);
    sheet.getRangeByName('C6').setNumber(426);
    
    // Create an instances of chart collection.
    final ChartCollection charts = ChartCollection(sheet);
    
    // Add the chart.
    final Chart chart1 = charts.add();
    
    // Set Chart Type.
    chart1.chartType = ExcelChartType.barStacked;
    
    // Set data range in the worksheet.
    chart1.dataRange = sheet.getRangeByName('A1:C6');
    chart1.isSeriesInRows = false;
    
    // set charts to worksheet.
    sheet.charts = charts;
    
    //save and dispose workbook.
    final List<int> bytes = workbook.saveSync();
    workbook.dispose();
    
    File('BarStackedChart.xlsx').writeAsBytes(bytes);