The Chart Shade component enables you to switch the internal color palette used by charts to a set of custom predefined colors. The custom colors are loaded from a Dashboard Studio palette file (PAL). A set of hatched monochrome colors are available for black and white printing or color blind users.
The component is extended to enable these options:
End users apply alternate color schemes to color charts at runtime
Dashboard developers define one or more palettes to be available at runtime
The component enables multiple palettes to be defined on top of the existing hatched monochrome palette. Palettes can also be concatenated if a chart contains many bars or segments. A repeating cycle of color values occurs if all palettes are exhausted.
Sets of colors in one or more palettes are defined by using the Color Palette Properties frame. See “Using the Color Palette Properties Frame” in the Hyperion Interactive Reporting – Object Model and Dashboard Development Services Developer's Guide, Volume 5: Dashboard Studio.
The component includes button graphics that must be added to dashboard frames and configured. See Component Buttons.