I'm creating an Excel workbook from scratch. One of the sheets contains a chart, and I want to set the chart title.
Apache POI has a setChartTitle method on HSSFChart, but neither XSSFChart nor the format-agnostic Chart have methods to set the chart title. Since I need to create .xlsx files this is a problem for me.
After much poking around in POI code and OOXML specifications I managed to come up with this code for setting the title on a newly created Chart:
if (chart instanceof XSSFChart) { XSSFChart xchart = (XSSFChart) chart; CTChart ctChart = xchart.getCTChart(); CTTitle title = ctChart.addNewTitle(); CTTx tx = title.addNewTx(); CTTextBody rich = tx.addNewRich(); rich.addNewBodyPr(); // body properties must exist, but can be empty CTTextParagraph para = rich.addNewP(); CTRegularTextRun r = para.addNewR(); r.setT("My chart title"); }
This seems to work - I can load the resulting file in Excel 2013 and the chart is there with the correct title.
Is there an easier way to do this? What gotchas would I need to look out for when changing a chart title in a workbook created in Excel?