difficulty in assigning string values to chart

[vivek]

Hi

I am using charts in reporting services.I have made a dataset and trying to assign its elements in chart. i have experienced strange result. When i try to assign element of the dataset to chart whose value is numeric then result is visible but when i try to assign element of the dataset whose value comes as string to chart then i am getting error  :An error occured during  processing of Custom report item 'Chart2' with Chart extension.input string was not in correct format. I am giving an example for example my dataset has name shop and i have 2 elements in it customer name and sales when i assign sales value to chart then i am getting correct result but when i try to assign customer name to it i am getting error .Do i need to do any formatting for the string result

Thanks

Regards

vivek

[maximop]

Please post a sample layout of how your data looks. How are you setting the customer name column? Are you using the Adjust Data to Chart feature provided in the chart's smart tag wizard?