How To - Chart colors in MashZone 2.1

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Yvonne Henz on April 21, 2011

MashZone 2.1 has another great new feature. It now allows users to set the colors for their graphics themselves in order to, for example, use their corporate identity (CI) colors in MashApps.

There are two ways to do this.

You can add a new, customized color palette to the preinstalled palettes. To do so, you must create an XML file and insert it into $install/assets/colorschemes.

The content of the file must look as follows:

After creating the file, it should be stored in the following folder:

This new color palette is then available in the future for all MashApps and can be selected in the graphic options under Formatting -> Data points.

The second possibility allows you to extract the color code from the data feed and thus, color graphics directly in a MashApp. Color names or the hex codes are used to do this.

Then, you can select the customized color codes under Criterion -> Colors.

The result could for example, look like this:

Note: Make sure to also read about the other new features of MashZone 2.1!

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE colorscheme SYSTEM "colorscheme.dtd"> <colorscheme> <descriptions> <description language="de" name="Grau"/> <description language="en" name="Gray"/> </descriptions> <colors>0x8D8D8D, 0xA4A4A4, 0xBBBBBB, 0xD1D1D1</colors> </colorscheme>

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Dieter Jansen on April 21, 2011 - 08:56

Good Morning,

Not entirely related to the topic, but I'm wondering whether it is possible to change the colour of a single bar in a bar chart based on its value. Currently thresholds are shown in the background, but I would prefer that if a particular value is higher than the threshold value, then the bar colour itself changes. Is this possible?

Dieter

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Thomas Staub on April 21, 2011 - 10:53

Hi Dieter

To use this new feature, you need a color-column in wich you provide a color value for each datapoint in your chart.

You can fill this column with the replace-value-operator. If you have 3 "threholds" you need 3 replace-value-operators.

For example:

Now the problem is that the cartesian-charts (Line,Column,Bar) in mashzone does not differ the values by colors if you have only one dimension.

In this charts you can use the feature only with the second dimension ("More values" in the datamode).

But you can use a trick. Because you need two dimensions you need a further column in our feed (in the example "2ndDim"). This column has to be empty.

No you have to assign this column to the y-Axis and the "real dimension-column" to the "More values-axis". And here you can use your color-column for coloring.

Then we have to set the "More-Values-type" to "Grouped"

On problem remains. With this trick it is not possible to show the dimension-values direclty in the chart.

But with the legend and a userdefined tooltip you can recognize the different values.

In a pie-chart you can use the coloring-feature directly with the "criterion-coordinate".

Regards

Thomas

Stephan Freudl on May 23, 2011 - 20:13

To avoid typos you may use this snippet:

Enya Worton on January 28, 2015 - 16:51 as Reply to Stephan Freudl

...and the colour secheme is attached!

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Color Codes.docx