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
.
c:Documents and Settingsyour_user_idApplication DataXcelsiuscustomThemes
c:Documents and Settingsyour_user_idApplication DataXcelsiuscustomThemesAutoInfo
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: