Creating and applying a default color map

Now there is only one thing left to do to finish styling up our document: apply the standard HighCloud color scheme to our charts.

Defining chart colors

We'll start by applying the HighCloud colors to the Traffic per Year chart. Follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on the bar chart and select Properties….
  2. Navigate to the Colors tab.
  3. From the Data Appearance section, click on the first color button under the Colors 1-6 list, and the already familiar Color Area dialog will appear.
  4. Change the Base Color to the already defined HighCloud Blue and close the Color Area window.
  5. Then, click on the second color button from the color map and change it to HighCloud Brown.
  6. Click on OK to close the Chart Properties window.

Once we've changed the color map, our chart will adopt the new colors in the order that was defined. At this time, only one color (HighCloud Blue) is used by the chart. However, we will use the same color map for all of our future charts, and some of them will indeed require more of the defined colors.

Setting the default color map

Let's now see how we can use that previous definition and set it as the default scheme for all of our charts:

  1. Right-click on the Traffic per Year chart again and select Properties….
  2. Navigate to the Colors tab and click on the Advanced… button. You will now see the following dialog:
    Setting the default color map

The Advanced Color Map dialog window lets us retrieve and update the default color map on a number of levels:

  • Sheet Default: The color map is only used for objects within this sheet.
  • Document Default: The color map is used for all of the objects within this document.
  • User Default: The color map is used for all of the objects that the current user creates. This is very useful when you have a corporate style that you want to apply to all of your charts across all of your documents.
  • QlikView Default: This is the default QlikView color map.
  • These settings can only be retrieved but not overwritten.

    Note

    Setting a new default color map does not overwrite the color settings on objects that were already created. Those settings would need to be updated manually.

As we only want to apply the color scheme to this document, we will be updating the Document Default color map by following these steps:

  1. Click on the Update button corresponding to Document Default.
  2. Click on OK to close the Advanced Color Map dialog.
  3. Click on OK to close the Chart Properties dialog.

The default color map used by the document has been set and it will be automatically applied to all future charts we create.

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