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Excel.ChartSeriesBy enum

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Package:
excel

Specifies whether the series are by rows or by columns. In Excel on desktop, the "auto" option will inspect the source data shape to automatically guess whether the data is by rows or columns. In Excel on the web, "auto" will simply default to "columns".

Remarks

[ API set: ExcelApi 1.1 ]

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/excel/10-chart/chart-data-source.yaml

await Excel.run(async (context) => {
  // Create a new worksheet called "Sample" and activate it.
  context.workbook.worksheets.getItemOrNullObject("Sample").delete();
  const sheet = context.workbook.worksheets.add("Sample");
  
  // Create an a table named SalesTable on the Sample worksheet.
  let expensesTable = sheet.tables.add("A1:E1", true);
  expensesTable.name = "SalesTable";

  expensesTable.getHeaderRowRange().values = [["Product", "Qtr1", "Qtr2", "Qtr3", "Qtr4"]];        
  expensesTable.rows.add(null, [
    ["Frames", 5000, 7000, 6544, 4377],
    ["Saddles", 400, 323, 276, 651],
    ["Brake levers", 12000, 8766, 8456, 9812],
    ["Chains", 1550, 1088, 692, 853],
    ["Mirrors", 225, 600, 923, 544],
    ["Spokes", 6005, 7634, 4589, 8765]
  ]);
  
  sheet.getUsedRange().format.autofitColumns();
  sheet.getUsedRange().format.autofitRows();
  sheet.activate();

  // Create a line chart based on data from SalesTable.
  let dataRange = sheet.getRange("A1:E7");
  let chart = sheet.charts.add("Line", dataRange, Excel.ChartSeriesBy.rows);

  // Position and style the chart.
  chart.setPosition("A15", "E30");
  chart.legend.position = "Right";
  chart.legend.format.fill.setSolidColor("white");

  await context.sync();
});

Fields

auto = "Auto"

In Excel on desktop, the "auto" option will inspect the source data shape to automatically guess whether the data is by rows or columns. In Excel on the web, "auto" will simply default to "columns".
columns = "Columns"
rows = "Rows"