Hi Everyone,

I am trying to customize one of the webfocus default style sheets i.e. warm.sty for our infoassist users. Is there a way to customize in such way that different colors are assigned to series based on the graph type selected? For example, blaproperties is used for bar,line and area. Can I assign colors for series0 as blue, series1 as green and series 2 red for bar chart and series0 as green, series1 as red and series 2 as blue for area chart? Thanks in advance.
Regards
Bi Dev

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As far as I know, you cannot dynamically know which output format as been selected by the user (or used at run time) from IA.

The best thing I can think of is to have different style sheet (warm_bar.sty, warm_area.sty) from which the user will have to select from when creating his/her report.
But it's a user selection, nothing automated.

Actually, you can assign colors for
series0 as blue, series1 as green and series 2 red for bar chart and series0 as green, series1 as red and series 2 as blue for area chart. [b] If the chart type if in a DM Variable. If so, that variable can be used as follows:

. . .
-SET &Series0Color=DECODE &GraphType.EVAL ('Bar' '0,0,255' 'Area' '0,255,0' 'Line' '255,0,0') ;
-* Do this for each Series / Chart Type
. . . 
setFillColor(getSeries(0),new Color(&Series0Color.EVAL));
. . .
-* Do this for each possible Series

I hope you can work with this...

Doug

@Doug,

If the user is using InfoAssist to create its report as specified by BI Dev I'm interested to know how will you have the DM var &GraphType assigned ?

From a selection (from control in a HTML page as an example) where the available output type are listed I understand your idea, but from IA... I'm wondering how it could be possible to know what does the user have selected.

Hi Doug,

Thanks for taking time to look into this, Is there anyway we can do this using infoassist?

quote:

Originally posted by Doug:
Actually, you can assign colors for
series0 as blue, series1 as green and series 2 red for bar chart and series0 as green, series1 as red and series 2 as blue for area chart. [b] If the chart type if in a DM Variable. If so, that variable can be used as follows:

. . .
-SET &Series0Color=DECODE &GraphType.EVAL ('Bar' '0,0,255' 'Area' '0,255,0' 'Line' '255,0,0') ;
-* Do this for each Series / Chart Type
. . . 
setFillColor(getSeries(0),new Color(&Series0Color.EVAL));
. . .
-* Do this for each possible Series

I hope you can work with this...

Doug

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your response. I understand your point, wondering if there is a way to automate it(if possible ).

BI Dev

quote:

Originally posted by MartinY:
As far as I know, you cannot dynamically know which output format as been selected by the user (or used at run time) from IA.

The best thing I can think of is to have different style sheet (warm_bar.sty, warm_area.sty) from which the user will have to select from when creating his/her report.
But it's a user selection, nothing automated.

@BI Dev,

This is my point : AFAIK it's not possible to automate that (knowing which output format has been selected by user from IA) and this is why I'm asking Doug how his option (DM var &GraphType) could be assigned using user selection from IA.
Maybe there is a way that I'm not aware.