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.
You must be able to view hidden files and folders in the c:Documents and Settingsyour_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:Usersyour_user_id.
- Click on the Colors icon and select Create New Color Scheme at the bottom of the list.
- Change the background color to whatever color you want from the Backgrounds tab in Advanced Settings as highlighted in the following screenshot:
- 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.
- Click the Save button when you are finished.
- Your color scheme has now been saved and you can now transfer it to other computers. Copy the XML files of the theme that you want to share from the following two folders to the exact same directory in the destination computer. The XML filenames will be named as you saved them, as follows:
c:Documents and Settingsyour_user_idApplication DataXcelsiuscustomThemesc:Documents and Settingsyour_user_idApplication DataXcelsiuscustomThemesAutoInfo
- For Windows Vista and Windows 7, the directory path for Xcelsius will be
c:Usersyour_user_idAppDataRoaming.
Every time you save a custom color scheme, it will create two XML files in the aforementioned directories. From there, you can easily share the color scheme with other developers or other machines that have SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards installed.
As you can see in the following screenshot, once you have the XML files of the color scheme in place, you will be able to select it from the Color Scheme Toolbar:
