Zentrix Pie, Donut & Sunburst
Part-to-whole three ways, over one arc engine.
A pie is a sunburst with one ring and no hole, so this draws all three from one engine. One category field gives you a pie or a donut; two or more give you a sunburst, and the mode control can decide that for you. Hierarchies that end early render as a wedge spanning the remaining rings, and say so, instead of refusing to draw or padding with phantom rings. Labels sit inside when they can be read there and outside with leader lines when they can't, and never on top of one another. The centre total reflects what is actually drawn, including the current cross-filter. Everything is computed inside the Power BI sandbox.
- Marks
- Pie, donut and sunburst from one engine
- Fields needed
- One to six category levels, and a measure
- Also takes
- Small multiples, its own centre measure, a slice-length measure
- Scale
- 30,000 rows, or the total is declared partial
- Views
- Chart, table with CSV, insight read-out
- Privacy
- No external calls, no telemetry
Features
Built to surface
what matters
Ragged hierarchies render honestly
A branch that ends early is drawn as one wedge spanning the rings below it, and the tooltip says that is what happened. A blank level is treated as a real level, not quietly collapsed. This is where marketplace sunbursts usually fail: refusing to render, inventing a ring, or padding with blanks.
Labels that survive real data
Each label goes inside when it fits and can be read against its own fill, outside with a leader line when it can't. Parts drop in a fixed order — value, then percent, then name — and a label is never drawn over another. When the outside column gets crowded it keeps the largest slices' labels, near their own slice, with leaders that don't cross.
A total and an “Other” you can trust
The centre total follows the current filter, and can take its own measure when a distinct count or an average is the right number. Small slices roll into an Other bucket that carries a real count and sum, is selectable, is never a single slice, and never hides a slice bigger than one it kept. Negative values are never drawn as angles — they're excluded, counted, and reported as a data-quality warning.
Zoom into a branch
Double-click a slice to make that branch the whole chart, click the hole to come back, with a breadcrumb that trims from the middle when it runs out of room. Zoom is a view, not a filter: it's session-local and never written into your report.
Small multiples with one colour scale
One panel per value, with a category holding the same colour in every panel, ordered by name or by your sort column. A rose mode varies the radius by value using area, not radius, so a slice worth four times another isn't sixteen times the ink.
Readable by design
Muted and tone text meet WCAG AA, high contrast overrides every colour source including the author's, and numbers follow the report's locale and the measure's own format. The sortable table view is the accessibility answer to a chart made of arcs: search it, sort it, read the full path of any sunburst row, export it as CSV.
The Insight Engine
Insights that never
leave your tenant
The Pie · Donut · Sunburst computes its insights with transparent, deterministic logic — entirely inside the Power BI sandbox. No external calls, no telemetry, nothing leaves your tenant.
- How concentrated the total is, and how many slices reach half of it
- The dominant branch of the hierarchy
- What the long tail is actually worth
- Ragged-hierarchy and negative-value warnings
- Why a chart is empty, when it is
Runs in the Power BI sandbox
Every insight is computed inside the Power BI visual sandbox. The visual makes no external network calls and sends no telemetry — nothing about your data leaves your tenant.
Free to use
Free, fast to install, and yours to keep
The core Pie · Donut · Sunburst is free — no trial, no watermark, no sign-in. Add it from AppSource once it's live, drop it on your canvas, and you're running. Full setup steps live in the docs.
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