difficulty in assigning string values to charts

[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 refer to the link below:

http://community.softwarefx.com/forums/t/8651.aspx