Set the default colors for project metrics

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Applies to: TBM Studio 12.0 and later

Use the Color Spec property to change the default colors for metrics in a project.
  • For all charts, use the Color Spec property in the Edit Project Settings dialog. Access the dialog by clicking Definition on the Project tab.
  • For an individual chart, use the Color Spec property on the Chart tab of the Properties dialog for the chart.

To access the property, on the Project tab, in the Page Setup group, click Project Settings. You can specify alternate colors for metrics by entering a Color Spec string in the following format:

metric=color-spec[;metric=color-spec]
The elements of the string are described below.
  • metric - Any metric in the chart as its name appears in the chart legend. No asterisks are supported.
  • Color Spec - A string describing the color. Valid color-spec strings are:
    • Flat colors: black, gray, lightgray, darkgray, white. "Transparent" also is supported and will effectively make a bar or line invisible.
    • Gradient colors: blue, red, green, yellow, violet, brown, skyblue, lightgreen, orange, darkblue, darkgreen, purple, aqua, pink, teal, crimson.
    • You can also prefix any of the gradient colors with flat to get a non-gradient version, for example: flatblue.
    • An exclamation point ( ! ) before a color-spec indicates that the following color-spec should not be used anywhere in the chart.

You can specify multiple Color Specs by separating them with semicolons ( ; ) as in the following example:

Cost=blue;Budget=green;!purple

This example specifies: Cost is blue, Budget is green and do not use purple. Only one metric per color is supported. If you set two metrics to the same color, only the first metric will use the selected color. You can use hex codes to specify colors. For example, to specify blue:

Cost=#082f6d