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  • 1.  Bubble chart and custom colors

    Posted Thu January 12, 2023 09:48 AM
    Hi everyone,

    i created an active report in Cognos 11.1.7 with an bubble chart, for the coloring i want to use an custom color palette, but am unable to configure it.

    In the viualisation properties i can only select predefined color palettes,not a custom palette.

    In a dashboard it is posibble to use global custom palettes.

    Have anyone expierence with that behaivor?

    Regards from a new member in this community

    Chris




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    Christian Paulheim
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  • 2.  RE: Bubble chart and custom colors

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu January 12, 2023 01:35 PM

    Hi,

    In a "regular" report or a dashboard, you default to using 11.1 visualizations, which support the custom colour palettes defined for the instance. Active reports do not use these visualizations - they can use 11.0 visualizations, Legacy visualizations (the old RAVE engine) or Charts (the AVS chart engine). Sadly, these do not support the global custom colour palettes.

    Cheers!

    MF.



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  • 3.  RE: Bubble chart and custom colors

    Posted Fri January 13, 2023 01:17 AM
    Hi Mark,

    thats really sad, thanks for your reply.

    Chris

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    Christian Paulheim
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  • 4.  RE: Bubble chart and custom colors

    Posted Fri January 13, 2023 08:55 AM
    Edited by System Test Fri January 20, 2023 04:24 PM
    > In a dashboard it is posibble to use global custom palettes.

    For anyone reading this wondering how to add a global palette to use in multiple dashboards, here are the steps:

    - Open Manage > Customization > Palettes
    - Select the + icon to create your global palette
    - Open one of your dashboards in Edit mode
    - Select a visualization > open the Properties panel
    - Under the Colour section, select 'Change colour palette'
    - You should see a section called Global that contains the colour palette you just added. You can select this to use it as the palette of your visualization

    This screenshot show what this looks like. This depicts the experience in Cognos 11.2.4 but the behaviour is the same in 11.1.7

    Using a global palette on a dashboard visualization


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  • 5.  RE: Bubble chart and custom colors

    Posted Mon January 23, 2023 03:44 PM
    Hi Chris

    It is possible to add custom colours to a RAVE vis that is being used in your Active Report. 

    You will need to download the Rave Customization Utility and add the colours.

    Michael

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  • 6.  RE: Bubble chart and custom colors

    Posted Mon January 23, 2023 03:44 PM
    Hi Chris

    Yes this is possible to add custom colours to the visulization. 

    You will need to download the RAVE Customization utility.

    Michael

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