Dashboards that include the Chart Shade component should contain two additional buttons on the top panel. The buttons determine whether the charts use the standard colors applied by Interactive Reporting Studio or a set of color palettes applied by the dashboard developer, or a hatched monochrome palette. However, to conserve space on the dashboard toolbar, dashboard developers can choose to configure only one button. Therefore, you can toggle between the options by clicking that button. See Configuring Chart Shade Buttons.
The Chart Shade component enables users at runtime to select from multiple color schemes to color charts.
See Setting Color Palettes in the Chart Shade Component.
Note:
If no custom palette is configured, clicking the buttons switches between the standard color applied by Interactive Reporting Studio and hatched monochrome palette. If multiple palettes are selected and 
or 
are clicked, a drop-down list is displayed that contains the entries set in the Chart Shade Properties frame.
Caution!
Shading charts can cause a dashboard to run slowly and inefficiently.
To use the Chart Shade component:
In Interactive Reporting Studio, open a dashboard that is configured with the Chart Shade component.
Perform an action depending on the available button.
Click
to apply the palette.The colors on the chart are changed to a set of hatched monochrome colors. The option is provided for monochrome printing or color blind users.
Click
to apply the palette.The classic color palette applied by Interactive Reporting Studio, or custom color palette specified by the dashboard developer are displayed in a drop-down list. See Setting Color Palettes in the Chart Shade Component.
The Chart Shade feature changes the color of all charts in the dashboard. However, it does not affect pivots, charts configured with the Chart Spotlighting feature, nor maps configured with the Maps component, as spotlighting takes precedence over Chart Shade configurations. See Using a Runtime Release of the Maps Component.
Drilling down may revert a chart back to the classic color palette assigned by Interactive Reporting Studio. Click to reactivate the custom colors. Similarly, if filters are set and custom colors applied, when those filters are removed, some bars in the chart may use custom colors and some may use the classic Interactive Reporting Studio color palette. If this occurs, click to reactivate the custom colors.
The Chart Shade component works with the Checkpoint control to store or restore the current palette on a dashboard. See “Using Checkpoint Control” in the Hyperion Interactive Reporting – Object Model and Dashboard Development Services Developer's Guide, Volume 5: Dashboard Studio.
In Dashboard Studio Release 8.3.2 and earlier, the Chart Shade buttons had other names. They were Custom Colors and Standard Colors, which are now Hatch and Color, respectively. If a dashboard developer uses the previous button names, they still operate in this release. That is, using pic^Qiq_chartshade^custom to define the Custom Colors button still works, as does pic^Qiq_chartshade^standard to define the Standard Colors button.