This page provides details of the properties for a colour map, which is part of screen design.

Overview

Use a colour map to specify colours for selected chart attributes or series. It allows one attribute to have the same colour across multiple charts, regardless of its type, and the number, or sequence, of other attributes.

A colour map can be assigned to a chart in the chart's editor.

Property Pane Toolbar

For information about the toolbar options, see the Common Properties page, Toolbars and Controls section.

 Properties Tab

Parent Details

If this item is within or belongs to another, its parent name is shown here. See the Parent Details section on the Common Properties page for more details.

Description

We recommend that you always enter a description to explain the purpose of this item.

 Security Tab

Access Permissions

See the Common Properties page, Access Permissions section.

 Audit Tab

Audit Summary

See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

Examples

A colour map has multiple entries, to specify a colour for each status in two different charts.

The colour map is applied to a bar chart and line graph.

Pie Chart

For this pie chart, the Label Attribute is "Status Type", which has the following possible values

• ERROR
• INFO
• OK
• WARNING

The colour map has an entry for each status.

Bar Chart

For this bar chart, the  Label Attribute is "Status Type" followed by the word "Portions", as follows:

• ERROR Portions
• INFO Portions
• OK Portions
• WARNING Portions

This is because the bar graph is a sum of the "Portions" attribute, grouped by Status Type.  

The colour map has an entry for each status.