SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Sharing a color scheme

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 coloring schemes, so we'll need a way to create a coloring scheme that we can re-use every time a new dashboard is built for the same company.

Getting ready

You must be able to view hidden files and folders in the c:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id folder. If you are a Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you will need to be able to view hidden files and folders in c:\Users\your_user_id.

How to do it...

1. Click on the colors icon and select the Create New Color Scheme at the bottom of the list.
2. Change the background color to whatever color ...