Dashboard Studio contains color palettes that are used to configure the look and feel of dashboard frames. To configure and apply color palettes, use the Chart Shade Properties frame. Color palettes to use for Chart Shade can be configured in 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.
To use the Chart Shade Properties frame:
Use the Interactive Reporting Studio document from the Configuring Chart Shade Buttons procedure, and navigate to Chart Shade Properties.
To access the configuration frame, use Sections or the Configuration drop-down list found in Dashboard Studio.
Optional: From Palette Configuration, select Concatenate Palettes to enable a cycle of color schemes.
For example, if a user specifies a color palette that contains 16 color values and a bar chart that contains more than 16 bars, the color of the seventeenth bar is the first color of the next palette. A repeating cycle of color values occurs if all palettes are exhausted.
The 16 colors of a palette are displayed in the 16 squares under Available Palettes and Selected Palettes.
Move selected palettes between Available Palettes and Selected Palettes by clicking
and 
.Optional: Reorder Selected Palettes by selecting a palette and clicking
or 
.Perform an action:
To discard selected palettes and reload the original settings, click Restore
To remove Selected Palettes, click Clear
To remove all entries, click Clear All
To load the palettes, click Apply
Navigate to the Interactive Reporting Studio document from the Configuring Chart Shade Buttons procedure, and click either
or 
.If multiple palettes are selected, a drop-down list is displayed.
Select a palette.
The chart color properties change to reflect the selection.
Optional: Select Refresh all charts if Refresh After Process. Selecting Chart, then Refresh Data, and then After Process in Interactive Reporting Studio causes all charts in Interactive Reporting Studio to be refreshed after a process operation. When charts are refreshed columns could change. If a column is added to a chart, it is added with the previously applied color scheme or hatching. Therefore, if all charts are refreshed, that is, Refresh Data, then After Process is selected, and the user opens a report that contains that chart, the extra unshaded column is displayed. Selecting Refresh all charts if Refresh After Process in the Chart Shade component eliminates that situation at the cost of refreshing all charts in the system when a user changes a section, and both conditions are met. The process can be slow if there are multiple sections and charts.