Set the default colors for metrics on charts

Applies to: TBM Studio 12.0 and later

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

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.

Hexadecimal color codes (e.g. #ff55ff) are valid, as are color keywords. For example, to specify blue for the Cost metric:

Cost=#082f6d

The colors available are shown below:

blue image purple image black
red image lightblue image gray
green image pink image lightgray
yellow image teal image darkgray
violet image crimson image white
brown image orange image
skyblue image darkblue image
lightgreen image darkgreen image

Custom Color Palette

Applies to: 12.10.10 and later

The value in the Color Spec field is the primary value and cannot be overridden by the custom color palette that is chosen for the report.

To know more, refer Custom Color Palette.