Users can define their own color palettes for Vitara charts. VitaraCharts by default provides three custom color palettes namely Corporate1, Corporate2 and Corporate3.
In any of the Vitara chart, go to - edit → appearance → color palette. Expand the color palette tab, you can see these three color palettes. We can modify the colors in these color palettes and also add new color palettes.
Open the file named global.txt in the following path,
Tomcat 8.0\webapps\MicroStrategy\plugins\VitaraCharts\custom
In this file, you can see the three properties called palette.Corporate1, palette.Corporate2 and palette.Corporate3. These are the sample custom palettes’ declarations. Please refer the below screenshot of the ‘global.txt’ file.
Define a palette. And the valid color values include color names, hex values or RGB values. For example
palette.Vitara=red,green,blue,#12ffd4,rgb(123,215,168)
There is a property named palette.list. This property contains all the custom palettes(comma separated) which need to be reflected in the charts.
Add the name of the custom palette that you want to see in the list of color palettes in the charts.
For example,
palette.list=Corporate1,Corporate2,Corporate3,Vitara
To see the color palette applied on the chart, For example to select the palette named Vitara,
Click
- Edit → Appearance → Color Palette → Vitara
Below is the screenshot of an existing custom palette Corporate1 in the chart.
There is a key in global.txt named palette.defaultPalette. So, you need to specify which custom palette defined in the global.txt should be the default palette for all the charts. For example,
palette.defaultPalette=Corporate3
Vitara {Misconfigured}
If the default palette set in the global.txt is misconfigured, the color palette is defaulted to the chart’s default palette.
Users can define any number of colors in a given palette.
After adding any new color, refresh the dossier/document to reflect the new color in Vitara charts.
You can disable any of these custom color palettes, add # at the starting of the palette definition.