Sharing a color scheme

Developers may want to customize a dashboard's charts and objects to follow a company's coloring guidelines. Most likely, the company's coloring guidelines will not match any of the built-in color schemes, so we'll need a way to create one that we can reuse every time a new dashboard is built for the same company.

Getting ready

You must be able to view hidden files and folders in the c:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id folder. If you are a Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you must be able to view hidden files and folders in c:\Users\your_user_id.

How to do it...

1. Click on the Colors icon and select Create New Color Scheme at the bottom of the list.

   

2. Change the background color to whatever color you want from the Backgrounds tab in Advanced Settings as highlighted in the following screenshot:

   

3. Click on the Charts tab and change the first Series color to something other than the default color. Also change the name of the Color Scheme to a name that you desire.

   

4. Click the Save...