The property title isn't read only about office-js-docs-reference HOT 4 CLOSED

Alex, Thanks. I’m about a years’ experience away from declaring anything a bug. I’m probably doing something wrong. Thanks for the help! I’ve purchased the book. Best Regards, Philip Mayfield From: Alex Jerabek <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:53 PM To: OfficeDev/office-js-docs-reference <[email protected]> Cc: Philip Mayfield <[email protected]>; Mention <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OfficeDev/office-js-docs-reference] The property title isn't read only (#449) Hi @plmayfield<https://github.com/plmayfield>, I completely understand the C# -> JS/TS confusion; that was me a year ago. The book mentioned at the end of this resources page<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/resources/resources-links-help> was pretty helpful for me. Your best bet for coding questions is asking them over at Stack Overflow<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/office-js> with the tag "office-js". The community, as well as our experts, can help you out and the whole community can benefit from the answers. As for your particular question, it might be that particular chart type doesn't support data labels. The property itself isn't read-only, so it should be settable. If you think you found a bug, please file an issue on the office-js repo](https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js). You can always rapidly test office-js code with Script Lab<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/explore-with-script-lab> to debug. I'm going to close this issue, but please comment on thread if you have further questions. Please open a new issue if you do find some problems with the documentation. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#449?email_source=notifications&email_token=AHQXBHO42XJTX76CV2HHYBLP6ZY4LA5CNFSM4H77LJQ2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODZVCISA#issuecomment-510272584>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHQXBHM7JW3ZBG7FD7P4ZR3P6ZY4LANCNFSM4H77LJQQ>.

Alex, Thanks for the reply. It didn’t make sense at first, but I’ve dug into it and can see that it returns the property of type Excel.ChartAxisTitle. Which is itself an object with also has a “text” property which is not read only (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/excel/excel.chartaxistitle?view=office-js). It would seem like it should be chart.axes.valueAxis.ChartAxisTitle.text = “title” but I will just roll with it. My background is C++ and C# so this Typescript stuff is driving me crazy. Although kudos to MS for improving Javascript. What is the best forum to post questions about general How Tos? For example, I can’t get this to work … SpecSeries.points.getItemAt(121).hasDataLabel = true; //Excel API 1.7 Where SpecSeries is of type Excel.ChartSeries. I’m not asking you to answer the question, but rather point me to the forum that would be the best to ask this question. Best Regards, Philip Mayfield From: Alex Jerabek <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:15 PM To: OfficeDev/office-js-docs-reference <[email protected]> Cc: Philip Mayfield <[email protected]>; Mention <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OfficeDev/office-js-docs-reference] The property title isn't read only (#449) Hi @plmayfield<https://github.com/plmayfield>, This is a weird TypeScript nuance. The title property is read-only, but it's fields aren't. You can set the fields, but not the ChartTitle object (you can't set it this way: chart.axes.valueAxis.title = {text: "Title"}; The charts property<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/excel/excel.worksheet?view=office-js#charts> on the Worksheet is another example of this. You can certainly work with the charts, but not set a new ChartCollection object right there. Some primative properties are read-only, like Chart.standardHeight<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/excel/excel.worksheet?view=office-js#standardheight>. Those can't be directly changed either, but also don't have any subfields to be concerned with. Does that all make sense? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#449?email_source=notifications&email_token=AHQXBHK7USXZUWINNAQW5P3P6ZUQNA5CNFSM4H77LJQ2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODZVAOXY#issuecomment-510265183>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHQXBHNJABENTCNJO3AU4FLP6ZUQNANCNFSM4H77LJQQ>.