Changing Color Palettes and Synchronizing Colors Across Charts

Customizing the Color Palette

You can use the provided color palettes for your chart, or you can follow these steps to create your own palette.

In Builder, select the down-arrow in the color-picker, and then select Create New Palette.
In the Create New Palette dialog, choose a color selector and then define a custom color for it.

You can maintain a maximum of nine custom-color selectors. You can reuse custom-color palettes across multiple charts in a story.

Synchronizing Colors Across Multiple Charts

When the color palette for one chart in a story is changed, all the other charts that have the same color dimension or member will also be updated. This applies to charts that have a single dimension or measure for Color.

You can use one or more Dimensions or a single Measure for the color parameter in Bubble charts and Bar charts. For other charts, you can only use Dimensions.

Note

When you add a Measure to the Color parameter, any existing Dimensions or Measure will be replaced with the new Measure. You can have only one member in Color when that member is a Measure.

The following color synchronization options are available:

Synchronize colors across charts
Unsynchronize colors
Assign colors or create new palettes
Note
When you have a linked dimension as your color dimension, you cannot assign colors for individual members or create a new color palette.

Synchronize Colors Across Charts

After you change the color palette for one chart, you can update the color for the rest of the charts in the story.

Select one of the charts.
In the Designer, select (Builder).
Find your Color dimension and then choose (More) Color Sync Sync Colors.

Unsynchronize Colors

When you synchronize charts with the same color dimension, all the charts in that story will use the same color palette.

If you want to use different color palettes for some charts, you can either change the color dimension or do the following:

Select one of the charts.
In the Designer, select (Builder).
Find your Color dimension and then choose (More) Color Sync Unsync Colors.

The charts are no longer synchronized. The color dimensions can be updated with different palettes.

Assign Colors for Individual Values

You can choose a new color palette, or you can change the color for one – or more – members in the color dimension.

Select the appropriate chart.
In the Designer, select (Builder).
Find your Color dimension and then choose (More) Color Synch Assign Colors.
Find the desired dimension member and choose a new color for it.
When you have finished making changes, choose Apply.

The dimension member color will be changed for all the charts that use that dimension in the Color parameter.