{"id":1191,"date":"2010-03-25T03:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-03-25T03:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T08:52:28","slug":"add-a-custom-chart-palette-to-cognos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Add a custom chart palette to Cognos."},"content":{"rendered":"

While Cognos does many things well, most people have different tastes in colors.\u00a0 This article will walk you through creating and installing a custom chart palette.\u00a0 This example is for general charts, but the principles can be applied to maps and gauges in the same XML files.<\/p>\n

Example Charts ‘Before’ and ‘After’<\/p>\n

\"Custom<\/a>
Custom Cognos Chart Palette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. Choose your colors.<\/p>\n

These colors are from the ‘Barn’ palette and others I found at Colour Lovers<\/a>
\nThey have great palettes to get you started.
\n2. Edit ChartPalettes.xml
\nIn windows this file is found in:
\nC:\\Program Files\\Cognos\\c8\\webcontent\\pat\\res<\/p>\n

3. You can either create a new palette or just edit the pre-installed ones to suit your color preferences.
\nIn the XML document, explanation of <namedChartPalette> tag properties:
\nid\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0unique identifier
\nlabel\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0the label of the palette which will show up in Report Studio when you choose a palette.
\nidsLabel\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0string resource id for the label, as defined in reportstudio_xx.xml files.
\ntooltip\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0the tooltip
\nidsTooltip\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0string resource id for the tooltip, as defined in reportstudio_xx.xml files.<\/p>\n

The idsLabel and idsTooltip you assign here will be used later in to create the actual text label.<\/p>\n

4. The complete palette section will look like this:
\n<namedChartPalette id=”normalMyCompany” smallIcon=”chart\/palette\/normal\/mycompanypalette.gif” idsLabel=”IDS_PAL_NAME_MyCompany” idsTooltip=”IDS_PAL_TOOLTIP_MyCompany”>
\n<chartPalette>
\n<chartColor value=”#C25C4F”\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#E9D699″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#B9B964″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#826481″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#70635A”\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#EF2263″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#D54A5C”\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#828425″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#A2C1D5″\/>
\n<chartColor value=”#BFEBEF”\/>
\n<\/chartPalette>
\n<\/namedChartPalette><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Add a text name for the palette.
\nEdit reportstudio_en.xml in same directory.
\nThe ‘_en’ designates the English file.\u00a0 Repeat as needed for other language files.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Search and find the section of name tags by seaching for “IDS_PAL_NAME_default”
\nBelow that, add 2 new tags:
\n<string id=”IDS_PAL_NAME_MyCompany” type=”Control Label”>My Company palette<\/string>
\n<string id=”IDS_PAL_TOOLTIP_MyCompany” type=”Control Label”>My Company Barn palette.<\/string><\/p>\n

7. Create a custom palette icon for Report Studio and save as a GIF image.
\nImages are 48 x 16 pixels with a sample of each color.
\nI used one of the ones that Cognos installed and filled it in with my colors in a photo editing software.
\nName the GIF exactly as specified in the opening tag for your palette the ChartPalettes.xml
\nIn this example we used smallIcon=”chart\/palette\/normal\/mycompanypalette.gif”<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Save or upload the image to your server.
\nIn Windows servers save it to:
\nC:\\Program Files\\Cognos\\c8\\webcontent\\pat\\images\\chart\\palette\\normal<\/p>\n

Here is what the\u00a0 menu will show once we finish.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
New Custom Palette in palette dialog box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

9. Restart your Cognos service.<\/p>\n

If you just changed color codes in the preinstalled ‘normalDefault’ palette, now all your charts.
\nIf you followed all the steps and added a new palette as above, it will now be available in Report Studio.
\nTo test it, open Report Studio, create a new chart and look in the properties for ‘Palette: …’
\nClick the elipses to to see the palette menu.
\nIn the drop down you should now see ‘My Company palette’ as one of the options with your image preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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