Color Workshop

Defining Custom Colors

ADVIZOR provides standard color scales for use in coloring data. You may also define your own color mappings. This is available from the "Custom Colors" entry in the Project Workshop.

Custom Colors may be defined in two ways:

1. Color Scales: A range of colors that may be applied to a continuous numeric field.
2. Color Bins: A mapping of colors to descrete, categorical values.

Color Scales

Adding a New Color Scale:

1. In the "Color Scale" group, click "Create a new color scale" in the right tab.
2. Enter a name for the color scale.
3. The region labelled Click here to add colors – drag markers to edit scale is used to assign colors to the color scale that you’re creating by placing markers.
   • The Color pulldown list displays a variety of colors from which to choose.
   • Clicking the clickable field creates a marker where you wish to apply the color selected from the Color pulldown list.
   • The clickable field allows an exact position for a marker to be placed. The Percentage scale shows where in the range the marker is placed; this may also be manually edited.
   • Use the Delete button to remove a marker.
4. In the Color Scale Options area, select a Range Type from the pulldown list. The range of a gradient color scale is based on data values that are mapped to colors. The position of the data value in the data range and the color assigned to the data value indicate its value relative to corresponding data. Data is assigned colors, by category, in color scale order.
5. From the pulldown list, select an Unassigned Color. This color designates any portion of the range outside the markers. If there are not markers placed in the 0 – 100 percent range, the unassigned color is used to fill the gap between the last marker and the end of the scale.

Editing an Existing Color Scale

1. In the Color Scales section, click the "Modify" or "Delete" button.
2. Using the Color Scale Editor, make all changes.

Color Bins

Adding a new Color Binning

1. In the Color Bins section, "Create a new color bin".
2. The Color Bin Builder dialog box displays. Enter a unique identifier in the Name field.
3. Click the "Start Value" button to add a row to the Color Bins table.
4. Type names into the Start Value and End Value fields, based on your data type (for example, numeric fields would require a numeric value).
5. Select a Color, from the pulldown list, for each Start / End value that you enter.
6. Use the Unassigned Color pulldown list to set a distinct color for unassigned values, ensuring that they do not appear in the range of expected values.
7. Optionally, you can click use the Field Populate button to select a table/table field combination that will be used to populate into the Color Bin.
8. The newly-created Color Bin appears in the Color Bin list.

Editing a Color Bin

1. Click "Modify" or "Delete" in the Color Bins table.
2. In the Color Bin Builder dialog box that displays, you can:
   • Change the Name designation.
   • Edit Start Values and End Values.
   • Change the Unassigned Data Color.
   • Add a new color bin by clicking the Start Value button.
   • Populate fields by clicking the Field Populate button and selecting a table / table field to associate with Color Bin selections.