Overview

Beginning with version 4.2, SAS Web Report Studio enables you to define a custom color palette for graphs. The colors that you select in the palette are assigned, in order, based on the graph’s requirements. For example, depending on data item assignments, a graph might use only one color, or it might use six different colors.

To illustrate how this feature works, this SAS note shows how the custom palette is used in a bar chart, a line graph, and a pie chart. For the example, the first four colors in the custom palette have been changed from the colors used in the currently selected style (Plateau) to the colors shown in the following display.

Note: These examples were created using version 4.3. The Graph skin option shown in the previous display is not available in version 4.2.

Note: A custom palette is not used for progressive bar charts, which use preset colors. Also, for bubble plots, the color saturation is lighter than the other graph types.

Custom colors applied to a bar chart

If you insert a bar chart with Total Inventory assigned to Bar Height and Region assigned to Bars, only the first custom color is used because that is the only color that is needed to graphically represent the information.

At this point, if you assign Product to Bar Subgroup, then SAS Web Report Studio must use all of the first four colors in the custom palette in order to identify the four products that are associated with each region.

Custom colors applied to a line graph

Continuing with this example, the following display shows how the custom colors are used in a line graph when Total Inventory is assigned to Line Height, Region is assigned to Lines, and Product is assigned to Multiple Lines.

Custom colors applied to a pie chart

Finally, the following display shows how the custom colors are used in a pie chart when Total Inventory is assigned to Segment Size, Region is assigned to Segment, and Product is assigned to Pie Subgroup.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Web Report Studio	z/OS	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Linux for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0
		Solaris for x64	4.2		9.2 TS2M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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SAS Web Report Studio enables you to define a custom color palette for graphs. To illustrate how this feature works, this SAS note shows how the custom palette is used in a bar chart, a line graph, and a pie chart.

Type:	Usage Note
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Date Modified:	2011-01-11 14:45:14
Date Created:	2011-01-11 12:14:25