Chart colours [11.1]

[Uffe]

Hello,


I've set up a number of bar charts to display status (Proposed, Approved, Validated) as fetched out of various packages. Problem is, the bar colours are inconsistent and I can't find any way to specify which ones I want.

It seems that if all elements that go into one chart have the same status the bars are blue (the number of groups, ie number of bars, has no impact). If there are two different statuses in the data, the colours are blue and red. Three statuses, blue red and green.

But if I show two of these charts side by side, and in one package everything is Proposed and in the other everything is Validated, both charts are solid blue. That's not what I want -- remember, these are status charts intended to be read by managers, so reading and understanding the legend in a chart is quite beyond the target audience.

So: how can I specify which colours are used in each chart?

I've looked in the tagged value that contains the chart definition, but I can't find anything there.

Any ideas?


Cheers,

/Uffe

[Eve]

There's not currently any way to set the colors used in charts. (In 12.1 the heatmap chart type is the only one that allows colours to be configured)

[qwerty]

o ou - Are you an American in a British colony

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[Eve]

Oh dear.

I explicitly switched the second one to 'ou', thinking I'm proud to be Australian even if our official documentation uses 'o'. Didn't even notice my first usage.... More coffee.

[Uffe]

Shouldn't that be 'prod' to be Australian?  

Anyway, thanks -- will just have to train my managers to read the friggin' legend.  

/Uffe