Color Palettes
Color Palettes are a collection of colors that allow you to customize and beautify your charts. Analytics Plus offers a variety of color palettes to choose from. By default, when you create a chart, the colors assigned to your chart are those that are set for the corresponding workspace. You can also add your own color palettes to suit your reporting requirements.
To access chart palettes in Analytics Plus, click the Settings button from the side panel, and navigate to the Chart colors tab.
Chart palette types supported in Analytics Plus
By default, Analytics Plus offers three types of color palettes. You can also create your own palette by defining a set of colors to be applied to your charts, instead of manually assigning chart colors every time. Click here to create a new color palette.
The following are the default color palettes present in Analytics Plus:
Solid Color
The Solid Color palette is a collection of plain solid colors, with a maximum of 32 colors in a palette. The ManageEngine Analytics Plus Default palette will be selected as the default set.
The following is a report with a solid color palette applied.
Monochrome
The monochrome palette is differentiated by tones and tints of the same color applied for different legend items in a chart.
The following is a report with a monochrome palette applied.
Gradient
The Gradient palette represents a list of colors that represent a gradual shift from one color to another.
The following is a chart with the Gradient palette applied.
Pattern
The Pattern palette allows you to fill your charts with specific patterns.
The following is a chart with the Pattern palette applied.
Applying a color palette
By default, the ManageEngine Analytics Plus palette will be applied across all your charts. To change this, click the Settings button from the side panel and navigate to the Chart Colors tab. Select your required palette, and click the Save & Close button. The selected palette will now be set as the default palette and will be automatically applied to new charts.
To reflect the change in color palette to existing charts, navigate to the required palette and click the More Actions icon that appears on mouse over. Select the Apply to All option, and click Save. This will apply the colors from the palette to all existing charts in the workspace. This is an irreversible action.
You can also set color palettes to charts individually. Open a chart and select the Settings icon from the chart's toolbar. Navigate to the Legend tab and choose a color palette of your choice. You can also modify the colors of individual sections of the chart using the Colors section.
Working with chart palettes
Analytics Plus allows you to modify existing chart palettes, duplicate them and delete any unwanted ones. You can also create custom color palettes.
Edit existing color palettes
To edit the existing color palettes, click the Settings icon from the side panel and click the Chart Colors tab. Before you modify a particular color palette, you can duplicate it to ensure the original palette settings are left undisturbed. To do this, navigate to the color palette you want to modify, and click the More Actions menu that appears on mouse over. Select the Duplicate option, provide a name for the duplicated color palette, and click OK.
To edit existing color palettes, navigate to the color palette you wish to modify, and click the Edit icon that appears on mouse over.
This opens the Edit Palette settings. Theses settings are different for each type of color palette in Analytics Plus, and are detailed in the following sections.
Solid color palettes
In the Edit Palette screen, make the necessary changes in the following sections:
The Colors section lists the different colors present in the palette. To replace these colors, click the corresponding color tile and select the required color from the popup that appears.
Specifiy the brightness, contrast and transparency of the colors in the Adjustments section. Preview the changes made using the Preview button, and click Save.
Monochrome color palette
To edit a monochrome color palette in Analytics Plus, make the necessary changes in the following sections of the Edit Palette screen:
Select the required color from the Colors section, and change the color transition using the Reversed toggle button.
Modify the brightness, contrast and transparency from the Adjustments section. Preview the changes made using the Preview button, and click Save.
Gradient color palette
You can make the following modifications to a gradient color palette in Analytics Plus:
Modify the existing colors from the Colors section of the Edit Palette screen, and include additional colors by clicking the + button.
Use the Reversed toggle button to swap the order of the colors, and the Merge Gradient button to merge the gradient between colors to achieve a smooth fusion of color.
Modify the brightness, contrast and transparency from the Adjustments section. Preview the changes made using the Preview button, and click Save.
Note: The Merge Gradient option is available only when creating a gradient palette with two colors. Including more colors will automatically result in a smooth gradient of colors.
Creating custom color palettes
In addition to the default color palettes, Analytics Plus allows you to create custom color palettes and apply it to the charts in your workspace. These new palettes will be available under the Custom Palettes section of the Chart Colors tab.
Solid color palette
To add a new Solid color palette, click the Settings icon from the side panel, and navigate to the Chart Colors tab.
Select the Solid Color palette type, and click the Create Palette button.
Modify the settings as needed from the Edit Palette dialog, and click Save. To learn more about these settings, click here.
Monochrome color palette
To create a new monochrome color palette, navigate to the Monochrome palette section in the Chart Colors tab, and click the Create Palette button. Modify the settings as needed using the Edit Palette screen, and click Save. To learn more about the different settings available for monochrome color palettes, click here.
Gradient color palette
To create a new gradient color palette, navigate to the Gradient palette section in the Chart Colors tab, and click the Create Palette button. Make the necessary changes to the Edit Palette screen, and click Save. To learn more about the settings available for gradient color palettes, click here.
Copying custom palettes to other workspaces
You can also copy these custom palettes to other workspaces in Analytics Plus. Follow the steps below to do this.
Navigate to the required custom palette, click the More Actions icon that appears on mouse over, and select Copy to Workspace.
In the popup that appears, select the required workspace, and click OK.
Deleting custom color palettes
To delete the custom palettes you've created, navigate to the required palette and click the More Actions icon that appears on mouse over. Select the Delete option and confirm your action to remove the selected palette.
