Dashboard Coloring

The Dashboard Designer allows you to assign coloring of dashboard item elements

You can select if to use a global color scheme with consistent colors for identical values across the dashboard or a local color scheme that provides an independent set of colors for each dashboard item.

You can also edit colors automatically assigned from the default palette.

Color Schemes

The dashboard offers two ways for coloring dashboard items.

• Using a global color scheme that provides consistent colors for identical values across the dashboard.

• To apply global colors for coloring a dashboard item, click the Coloring button in the Design menu.

• Applying a local color scheme that provides an independent set of colors for each dashboard item.

• To apply local colors for coloring dashboard item elements, click the Local Colors button in the Design menu.

Dashboard Coloring Dimensions and Measures

Dashboard items permits you to manage coloring individual dimensions or all dashboard item measures using predefined coloring styles.

Coloring Mode	Description
Default	Dimension values / measures are colored by default.
Hue	Dimension values / measures are colored by hue. If coloring by hue is enabled, a data item indicates this using the  indicator.
None	Dimension values / measures are colored with the same color.

Coloring Dimension Values

• To apply the coloring mode for a required dimension, click the Dimension menu button and select the Color by.

Coloring Measures

• To apply the coloring mode for dashboard item measures, click the button of any Measure and select Color by.

Default Coloring

• A Chart item colors different measures and series dimensions by hue.
•  A Pie item colors different measures or argument dimensions by hue.

Customizing a Color Scheme

The Dashboard Designer provides the capability to edit colors contained in global and local color schemes. You can select the required color from the default dashboard palette or specify a custom color.

Edit Color Scheme

To edit colors, use the Color Scheme dialog.

• To edit colors in a global color scheme, use the Edit Colors button in the Home menu.

• Or the Edit Colors button in the dashboard item’s Design tab.

In this dialog, you can perform the following actions.

• Edit automatically assigned colors or specify new colors.
• Add new values to a color table.
• Add new color tables containing values whose colors are not yet assigned.

Edit Colors

• Click a roe and select a color to apply.

• Specify a custom color, by selecting More Colors… and select any color using the RGB or HSB color model in the invoked Select Color dialog.

• Reset the customized color for the selected value using the Reset menu item.

Add a New Value

The Color Scheme dialog allows adding new values with the specified color to the selected color table.

• To add a new value, click the New Value… button.

• Specify the dimension values, add the required measures and click OK.
  This will create a new value which color can be edited.
• To remove an added value manually use the Remove context menu item.

Add a New Color table

The Color Scheme dialog allows you to add a new color table containing values which colors are not yet assigned.

• To add a new color table this, click the New Color Table… button.

• In the dialog window, select the Data source, add the required dimensions and enable the Measure Names Dimension check-box if you need to add measures to a color table.
• Click OK to add the color table to a color scheme. Now you can add values to this table and specify their colors.

Note! If you apply coloring by hue for several dimensions / measures, all combinations of dimension values / measures will be automatically colored using different colors from the default palette.