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title: "Board Pie Chart Properties – Slices, Labels, Colors and Drill"
slug: "pie"
description: "Set up Pie Chart properties in Board: map values from Layout Blocks, choose slice labeling, colors and sorting; enable drill options and legend display for clear analysis."
tags: ["Objects", "Developer", "Charts", "Design Mode", "Pie"]
updated: 2026-01-29T10:02:42Z
published: 2026-03-31T09:00:24Z
canonical: "help.board.com/pie"
---

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# Pie chart properties

The Pie chart shares most of its options and properties with the [Cartesian chart](/v1/docs/cartesian-chart-properties), with a few exceptions described in the following paragraphs.

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Under the **Pie Main options** menu you can customize a few format options for the chart. They are the following:

- **Hover mode**. If you select "Fade other items", when you hover over a slice (category) or a data label all other slices and data labels will appear opaque.
- **Display mode**. Defines data labels visibility and position (inside or outside the pie area).
- **Label mode**. Defines the information displayed in data labels.

Under the **Series** menu, the following options are available:

- **Show as doughnut**. Enable this option to turn the pie chart into a doughnut chart (i.e. a pie chart with a blank circular area in the center).
- **Select category**. Select the category whose color you want to change in the "Color" option below.
- **Rotation angle**. Defines the rotation angle of data labels.
- **Color**. Applies the selected color to the selected category (slice of the chart).