New-ExcelChart.ps1
function New-ExcelChartDefinition { <# .SYNOPSIS Creates a Definition of a chart which can be added using Export Excel .DESCRIPTION All the parameters which are passed to Add-ExcelChart can be added to an object and passed to Export-Excel with the -ExcelChartDefinition parameter. This command sets up those objects. .PARAMETER Title The title for the chart. .PARAMETER TitleBold Sets the title in bold face. .PARAMETER TitleSize Sets the point size for the title. .PARAMETER ChartType One of the built in chart types, such as Pie, ClusteredColumn, Line etc. Defaults to "ColumnStacked". .PARAMETER XRange The range of cells containing values for the X-Axis - usually labels. .PARAMETER YRange The range(s) of cells holding values for the Y-Axis - usually "data". .PARAMETER Width Width of the chart in Pixels. Defaults to 500. .PARAMETER Height Height of the chart in Pixels. Defaults to 350. .PARAMETER Row Row position of the top left corner of the chart. 0 places at the top of the sheet, 1 below row 1 and so on. .PARAMETER RowOffSetPixels Offset to postion the chart by a fraction of of a row . .PARAMETER Column Column Postion of the top left corner of the chart. 0 places at the edge of the sheet 1 to the right of column A and so on. .PARAMETER ColumnOffSetPixels Offset to postion the chart by a fraction of of a column. .PARAMETER NoLegend If specified, turns of display of the key. If you only have one data series it may be preferable to use the title to say what the chart is. .PARAMETER SeriesHeader Specify explicit name(s) for the data series, which will appear in the legend/key .PARAMETER LegendPostion Location of the key, either left, right, top, bottom or TopRight. .PARAMETER LegendSize Font size for the key .PARAMETER LegendBold Sets the key in bold type. .PARAMETER ShowCategory Attaches a category label in charts which support this. .PARAMETER ShowPercent Attaches a pecentage label in charts which support this. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleText Specifies a title for the X axis. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleBold Sets the X axis title in bold face. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleSize Sets the font size for the axis title .PARAMETER XAxisNumberformat A number formatting string, like "#,##0.00" for numbers along the X axis .PARAMETER XMajorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks along the X axis .PARAMETER XMinorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks along the X axis .PARAMETER XMaxValue Maximum value for the scale along the Xaxis .PARAMETER XMinValue Minimum value for the scale along the Xaxis .PARAMETER xAxisPosition Postion for the X axis (top or bottom) .PARAMETER YAxisTitleText Specifies a title for the Y axis. .PARAMETER YAxisTitleBold Sets the Y axis title in bold face. .PARAMETER YAxisTitleSize Sets the font size for the Y axis title .PARAMETER YAxisNumberformat A number formatting string, like "#,##0.00" for numbers on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMajorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMinorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMaxValue Maximum value on the Yaxis .PARAMETER YMinValue Minimum value on the Yaxis .PARAMETER YAxisPosition Postion for the Y axis (left or right) .PARAMETER Header No longer used. This may be removed in future versions .Example > PS> $cDef = New-ExcelChartDefinition -ChartType line -XRange "X" -YRange "Sinx" -Title "Graph of Sine X" -TitleBold -TitleSize 14 ` -Column 2 -ColumnOffSetPixels 35 -Width 800 -XAxisTitleText "Degrees" -XAxisTitleBold -XAxisTitleSize 12 -XMajorUnit 30 -XMinorUnit 10 -XMinValue 0 -XMaxValue 361 -XAxisNumberformat "000" ` -YMinValue -1.25 -YMaxValue 1.25 -YMajorUnit 0.25 -YAxisNumberformat "0.00" -YAxisTitleText "Sine" -YAxisTitleBold -YAxisTitleSize 12 ` -SeriesHeader "Sin(x)" -LegendSize 8 -legendBold -LegendPostion Bottom 0..360 | ForEach-Object {[pscustomobject][ordered]@{x = $_; Sinx = "=Sin(Radians(x)) "}} | Export-Excel -AutoNameRange -now -WorkSheetname SinX -ExcelChartDefinition $cDef -Show This reworks an example from Add-Excel-Chart but here the chart definition is defined and then it is used in a call to Export-Excel. #> [Alias("New-ExcelChart")] #This was the former name. The new name reflects that we are defining a chart, not making one in the workbook. [cmdletbinding()] param( $Title = "Chart Title", $Header, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eChartType]$ChartType = "ColumnStacked", $XRange, $YRange, $Width = 500, $Height = 350, $Row = 0, $RowOffSetPixels = 10, $Column = 6, $ColumnOffSetPixels = 5, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eLegendPosition]$LegendPostion, $LegendSize, [Switch]$LegendBold, [Switch]$NoLegend, [Switch]$ShowCategory, [Switch]$ShowPercent, $SeriesHeader, [Switch]$TitleBold, [Int]$TitleSize , [String]$XAxisTitleText, [Switch]$XAxisTitleBold, $XAxisTitleSize , [string]$XAxisNumberformat, $XMajorUnit, $XMinorUnit, $XMaxValue, $XMinValue, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eAxisPosition]$XAxisPosition , [String]$YAxisTitleText, [Switch]$YAxisTitleBold, $YAxisTitleSize, [string]$YAxisNumberformat, $YMajorUnit, $YMinorUnit, $YMaxValue, $YMinValue, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eAxisPosition]$YAxisPosition ) if ( $Header ) {Write-Warning "The header parameter is ignored."} #Nothing was done with it when creating a chart. #might be able to do [PSCustomObject]$PsboundParameters, the defaults here match those in Add-Excel Chart [PSCustomObject]@{ Title = $Title ChartType = $ChartType XRange = $XRange YRange = $YRange Width = $Width Height = $Height Row = $Row RowOffSetPixels = $RowOffSetPixels Column = $Column ColumnOffSetPixels = $ColumnOffSetPixels LegendPostion = $LegendPostion LegendSize = $LegendSize Legendbold = $LegendBold NoLegend = $NoLegend -as [Boolean] ShowCategory = $ShowCategory -as [Boolean] ShowPercent = $ShowPercent -as [Boolean] SeriesHeader = $SeriesHeader TitleBold = $TitleBold -as [Boolean] TitleSize = $TitleSize XAxisTitleText = $XAxisTitleText XAxisTitleBold = $XAxisTitleBold -as [Boolean] XAxisTitleSize = $XAxisTitleSize XAxisNumberformat = $XAxisNumberformat XMajorUnit = $XMajorUnit XMinorUnit = $XMinorUnit XMaxValue = $XMaxValue XMinValue = $XMinValue XAxisPosition = $XAxisPosition YAxisTitleText = $YAxisTitleText YAxisTitleBold = $YAxisTitleBold -as [Boolean] YAxisTitleSize = $YAxisTitleSize YAxisNumberformat = $YAxisNumberformat YMajorUnit = $YMajorUnit YMinorUnit = $YMinorUnit YMaxValue = $YMaxValue YMinValue = $YMinValue YAxisPosition = $YAxisPosition } } function Add-ExcelChart { <# .SYNOPSIS Creates a chart in an existing Excel worksheet .DESCRIPTION Creates a chart. It is possible to configure the type of chart, the range of X values (labels) and Y values. the title, the legend, the ranges for both axes, the format and postion of the axes. Normally the command does not return anything, but if -passthru is specified the chart is returned so that it can be customized. .PARAMETER Worksheet An exisiting Sheet where the chart will be created. .PARAMETER Title The title for the chart. .PARAMETER TitleBold Sets the title in bold face. .PARAMETER TitleSize Sets the point size for the title. .PARAMETER ChartType One of the built in chart types, such as Pie, ClusteredColumn, Line etc. Defaults to "ColumnStacked". .PARAMETER XRange The range of cells containing values for the X-Axis - usually labels. .PARAMETER YRange The range(s) of cells holding values for the Y-Axis - usually "data". .PARAMETER PivotTable Instead of specify X and Y ranges, get data from a PivotTable by passing a PivotTable Object. .PARAMETER Width Width of the chart in Pixels. Defaults to 500. .PARAMETER Height Height of the chart in Pixels. Defaults to 350. .PARAMETER Row Row position of the top left corner of the chart. 0 places at the top of the sheet, 1 below row 1 and so on. .PARAMETER RowOffSetPixels Offset to postion the chart by a fraction of of a row . .PARAMETER Column Column Postion of the top left corner of the chart. 0 places at the edge of the sheet 1 to the right of column A and so on. .PARAMETER ColumnOffSetPixels Offset to postion the chart by a fraction of of a column. .PARAMETER NoLegend If specified, turns of display of the key. If you only have one data series it may be preferable to use the title to say what the chart is. .PARAMETER SeriesHeader Specify explicit name(s) for the data series, which will appear in the legend/key .PARAMETER LegendPostion Location of the key, either left, right, top, bottom or TopRight. .PARAMETER LegendSize Font size for the key .PARAMETER LegendBold Sets the key in bold type. .PARAMETER ShowCategory Attaches a category label in charts which support this. .PARAMETER ShowPercent Attaches a pecentage label in charts which support this. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleText Specifies a title for the X axis. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleBold Sets the X axis title in bold face. .PARAMETER XAxisTitleSize Sets the font size for the axis title .PARAMETER XAxisNumberformat A number formatting string, like "#,##0.00" for numbers along the X axis .PARAMETER XMajorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks along the X axis .PARAMETER XMinorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks along the X axis .PARAMETER XMaxValue Maximum value for the scale along the Xaxis .PARAMETER XMinValue Minimum value for the scale along the Xaxis .PARAMETER xAxisPosition Postion for the X axis (top or bottom) .PARAMETER YAxisTitleText Specifies a title for the Y axis. .PARAMETER YAxisTitleBold Sets the Y axis title in bold face. .PARAMETER YAxisTitleSize Sets the font size for the Y axis title .PARAMETER YAxisNumberformat A number formatting string, like "#,##0.00" for numbers on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMajorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMinorUnit Spacing for the major gridlines / tick marks on the Y axis .PARAMETER YMaxValue Maximum value on the Yaxis .PARAMETER YMinValue Minimum value on the Yaxis .PARAMETER YAxisPosition Postion for the Y axis (left or right) .PARAMETER PassThru Add-Excel chart doesn't normally return anything, but if -PassThru is specified it returns the newly created chart to allow it to be fine tuned .EXAMPLE > PS> $Excel = ConvertFrom-Csv @" Product, City, Sales Apple, London , 300 Orange, London , 400 Banana, London , 300 Orange, Paris, 600 Banana, Paris, 300 Apple, New York, 1200 "@ | Export-Excel -Path test.xlsx -PassThru Add-ExcelChart -Worksheet $Excel.Workbook.Worksheets[1] -ChartType "Doughnut" -XRange "A2:B7" -YRange "C2:C7" -width 500 Close-ExcelPackage -Show $Excel The first command expands a multi-line string into 6 rows of data which is exported to new Excel file; leaving an ExcelPackage object in $excel The second command adds a chart - the cell ranges are explitly specified. Note the at the XRange (labels) is TWO columns wide and the chart will combine the name of the product and the name of the City to create the table. The width of the chart is set explictly, the default legend is used and there is no Chart title. .EXAMPLE > PS> $Excel = Invoke-Sum (Get-Process) Company Handles, PM, VirtualMemorySize | Export-Excel $path -AutoSize -ExcelChartDefinition $c -AutoNameRange -PassThru Add-ExcelChart -Worksheet $Excel.Workbook.Worksheets[1] -Title "VM use" -ChartType PieExploded3D -XRange "Name" -YRange "VirtualMemorySize" -NoLegend -ShowCategory Close-ExcelPackage $Excel -Show The first line exports information and creates named ranges for each column. The Second line uses the ranges to specify a chart - the labels come from the range "Name" and the data from the range "VirtualMemorySize" The chart is specified as a 3D exploded PIE chart, with a title of "VM Use" and instead of a legend the the pie slices are identified with a label. .EXAMPLE > PS> $Excel = Invoke-Sum (Get-Process) Company Handles, PM, VirtualMemorySize | Export-Excel test.xlsx -TableName Processes -PassThru Add-ExcelChart -Worksheet $Excel.Workbook.Worksheets[1] -Title Stats -ChartType LineMarkersStacked -XRange "Processes[Name]" -YRange "Processes[PM]", "Processes[VirtualMemorySize]" -SeriesHeader 'PM', 'VMSize' Close-ExcelPackage $Excel -Show The first line exports information to a table in new file; and captures the excel Package object in $Excel The second line creates a chart on the first page of the work sheet, using the notation "TableName[ColumnnName]" to refer to the data, the labels come Name column in the table, and the data series from its PM and VirtualMemorySize columns. The display names for these in the header are set to PM and VMSize .EXAMPLE > PS> $excel = 0..360 | ForEach-Object {[pscustomobject][ordered]@{x = $_; Sinx = "=Sin(Radians(x)) "}} | Export-Excel -AutoNameRange -Path Text.xlsx -WorkSheetname SinX -PassThru Add-ExcelChart -Worksheet $excel.Workbook.Worksheets["Sinx"] -ChartType line -XRange "X" -YRange "Sinx" -Title "Graph of Sine X" -TitleBold -TitleSize 14 ` -Column 2 -ColumnOffSetPixels 35 -Width 800 -XAxisTitleText "Degrees" -XAxisTitleBold -XAxisTitleSize 12 -XMajorUnit 30 -XMinorUnit 10 -XMinValue 0 -XMaxValue 361 -XAxisNumberformat "000" ` -YMinValue -1.25 -YMaxValue 1.25 -YMajorUnit 0.25 -YAxisNumberformat "0.00" -YAxisTitleText "Sine" -YAxisTitleBold -YAxisTitleSize 12 ` -SeriesHeader "Sin(x)" -LegendSize 8 -legendBold -LegendPostion Bottom Close-ExcelPackage $Excel -Show The first line puts numbers from 0 to 360 into a sheet, as the first column, and a formula to calculate the Sine of that number of number of degrees in the second column. It creates ranges for the two columns - "X" and "SinX" respectively The Add-Excel chart colum adds a chart to that work sheet, specifying a line chart with the X values comming from named range "X" and the the Y values comming the range named "SinX". The chart has a title, and is positioned to the right of column 2 and sized 8000 pixels wide Thed X axis s labeled "Degrees", in bold 12 point type and runs from 0 to 361 with labels every 30, and minor tick marks every 10. Degres are shown badded to 3 didits. The Y axis is labeled "Sine" and to allow some room above and below its scale runs from -1.25 to 1.25, and is marked off in units of 0.25 show to two decimal places. The key will for the chart will be at the bottom in 8 point bold type and the line will be named "Sin(x)" #> [cmdletbinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Worksheet')] [OutputType([OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.ExcelChart])] param( [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Workshet',Mandatory=$true)] [OfficeOpenXml.ExcelWorksheet]$Worksheet, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='PivotTable',Mandatory=$true)] [OfficeOpenXml.Table.PivotTable.ExcelPivotTable]$PivotTable , [String]$Title, #$Header, Not used but referenced previously [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eChartType]$ChartType = "ColumnStacked", $XRange, $YRange, [int]$Width = 500, [int]$Height = 350, [int]$Row = 0, [int]$RowOffSetPixels = 10, [int]$Column = 6, [int]$ColumnOffSetPixels = 5, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eLegendPosition]$LegendPostion, $LegendSize, [Switch]$LegendBold, [Switch]$NoLegend, [Switch]$ShowCategory, [Switch]$ShowPercent, $SeriesHeader, [Switch]$TitleBold, [Int]$TitleSize , [String]$XAxisTitleText, [Switch]$XAxisTitleBold, $XAxisTitleSize , [string]$XAxisNumberformat, $XMajorUnit, $XMinorUnit, $XMaxValue, $XMinValue, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eAxisPosition]$XAxisPosition , [String]$YAxisTitleText, [Switch]$YAxisTitleBold, $YAxisTitleSize, [string]$YAxisNumberformat, $YMajorUnit, $YMinorUnit, $YMaxValue, $YMinValue, [OfficeOpenXml.Drawing.Chart.eAxisPosition]$YAxisPosition, [Switch]$PassThru ) try { if ($PivotTable) { $Worksheet = $PivotTable.WorkSheet $chart = $Worksheet.Drawings.AddChart(("Chart" + $PivotTable.Name ),$ChartType,$PivotTable) } else { $ChartName = 'Chart' + (Split-Path -Leaf ([System.IO.path]::GetTempFileName())) -replace 'tmp|\.', '' $chart = $Worksheet.Drawings.AddChart($ChartName, $ChartType) $chartDefCount = @($YRange).Count if ($chartDefCount -eq 1) { $Series = $chart.Series.Add($YRange, $XRange) if ($SeriesHeader) { $Series.Header = $SeriesHeader} else { $Series.Header = 'Series 1'} } else { for ($idx = 0; $idx -lt $chartDefCount; $idx += 1) { $Series = $chart.Series.Add($YRange[$idx], $XRange) if ($SeriesHeader.Count -gt 0) { $Series.Header = $SeriesHeader[$idx] } else { $Series.Header = "Series $($idx)"} } } } if ($Title) { $chart.Title.Text = $Title if ($TitleBold) {$chart.Title.Font.Bold = $true} if ($TitleSize) {$chart.Title.Font.Size = $TitleSize} } if ($NoLegend) { $chart.Legend.Remove() } else { if ($LegendPostion) {$Chart.Legend.Position = $LegendPostion} if ($LegendSize) {$chart.Legend.Font.Size = $LegendSize} if ($legendBold) {$chart.Legend.Font.Bold = $true} } if ($XAxisTitleText) { $chart.XAxis.Title.Text = $XAxisTitleText if ($XAxisTitleBold) {$chart.XAxis.Title.Font.Bold = $true} if ($XAxisTitleSize) {$chart.XAxis.Title.Font.Size = $XAxisTitleSize} } if ($XAxisPosition) {Write-Warning "X Axis position is not being set propertly at the moment, parameter ignored" } #$chart.ChartXml.chartSpace.chart.plotArea.catAx.axPos.val = $XAxisPosition.ToString().substring(0,1)} if ($XMajorUnit) {$chart.XAxis.MajorUnit = $XMajorUnit} if ($XMinorUnit) {$chart.XAxis.MinorUnit = $XMinorUnit} if ($null -ne $XMinValue) {$chart.XAxis.MinValue = $XMinValue} if ($null -ne $XMaxValue) {$chart.XAxis.MaxValue = $XMaxValue} if ($XAxisNumberformat) {$chart.XAxis.Format = (Expand-NumberFormat $XAxisNumberformat)} if ($YAxisTitleText) { $chart.YAxis.Title.Text = $YAxisTitleText if ($YAxisTitleBold) {$chart.YAxis.Title.Font.Bold = $true} if ($YAxisTitleSize) {$chart.YAxis.Title.Font.Size = $YAxisTitleSize} } if ($YAxisPosition) {Write-Warning "Y Axis position is not being set propertly at the moment, parameter ignored" } #$chart.ChartXml.chartSpace.chart.plotArea.valAx.axPos.val= $YAxisPosition.ToString().substring(0,1)} if ($YMajorUnit) {$chart.YAxis.MajorUnit = $YMajorUnit} if ($YMinorUnit) {$chart.YAxis.MinorUnit = $YMinorUnit} if ($null -ne $YMinValue){$chart.YAxis.MinValue = $YMinValue} if ($null -ne $YMaxValue){$chart.YAxis.MaxValue = $YMaxValue} if ($YAxisNumberformat) {$chart.YAxis.Format = (Expand-NumberFormat $YAxisNumberformat)} if ($null -ne $chart.Datalabel) { $chart.Datalabel.ShowCategory = [boolean]$ShowCategory $chart.Datalabel.ShowPercent = [boolean]$ShowPercent } $chart.SetPosition($Row, $RowOffsetPixels, $Column, $ColumnOffsetPixels) $chart.SetSize($Width, $Height) if ($PassThru) {return $chart} } catch {Write-Warning -Message "Failed adding Chart to worksheet '$($WorkSheet).name': $_"} } |