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How to add a Global Color Palette in Cognos Analytics 11.1

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The Custom Color Palettes feature was introduced in Cognos Analytics 11.1. This provides functionality  apply custom colors in Visualizations, for example, to reflect your corporate color theme.
Instead of having to create a new palette for every report, you can save your color palette as global variable so it can be applied to Visualizations in reports by report authors.

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