Pie Charts are easy to populate through the drag-and-drop functionality in FCS Express 5.  You can drag plots or gates, statistical tokens, or free text to create or replace sectors (slices) on a Pie Chart that has already been inserted on your layout.

 

When populating a Pie Chart by drag-and-drop, the following actions are available:

 

 

 

See the figures and steps below to learn how to populate Pie Charts by drag-and-drop.

 

After inserting a Pie Chart, dragging and dropping gates onto it will cause the Edit Statistic dialog to appear. The specific statistic relating to the gate can be chosen for plotting (e.g., "% of Gated Cells" in Fig. 11.16).

 

 

The result of dragging and dropping a gate to a Pie Chart and choosing the desired statistic in the Edit Statistic dialog is shown in Fig. 11.17 below.

 

 

Statistical tokens or freetext from default statistics windows or text boxes on your layout can also be dragged directly to Pie Chart. The data value must be dropped on the plot outside of the existing pie area (if dropped on the pie area the current value representing the slice will be replaced with the dropped value).  In this case, the Edit Statistic dialog will not appear.  In the example below, the selected "Gate 1, % of gated cells" statistic is dragged to an empty space on the Pie Chart, in order to add a new sector (slice) (Fig. 11.18).

 

 

 

Dragging a plot, gate, or statistic onto an existing sector (slice) will replace it with the desired statistic, as shown below (Fig. 11.19).