Modifying Themes

The colors, fonts, color palettes, shape palettes, and general colors to be used in workbooks and visualizations can be modified on the Themes page.

Steps:

1.     On the Themes page, click the theme to be modified.

The corresponding Theme page is displayed.

For this section, we will modify the settings of the Light theme.

 

NOTE	Unlike the default Dark and Light themes, the name of new or uploaded themes can be modified.

 

2.     On the Colors tab:

 

To modify the colors of the following:

·         Foreground, Background, Border, and Hot Track properties of workbooks or visualizations.

·         Positive and Negative values for the By Sign option used in numeric visual members.

you can either:

¨        click the corresponding Color box to display the Color dialog to:

o    select the color, or

o    click  to enter the values

for RGB

 

for HSL

 

for the Hex color code

¨        or enter the Hex color code

3.     Enter the Border Size of the visualizations.

4.     To modify the fonts, click the Fonts tab:

 

5.     For the workbooks, visualization and visualization titles, enter the preferred font Type and Size and check the style boxes: Bold and Italic.

6.     Select the visualization title Alignment: Left or Center.

7.     To select the Diverging, Sequential, and Text color palettes to use within the workbooks, click the Color Palettes tab.

 

8.     Check the boxes of the color palettes that will be included for each category.

9.     Click the radio button of the preferred Default color palette for each category.

10.     To upload color palettes, click . The Upload Color Palette dialog displays.

11.     To upload a color palette, either:

·         drag the file from your desktop and drop on the dialog, or

·         click Choose color palettes file to upload and then browse and select one on the Open dialog that displays

The name of the color palette is displayed on the uploaded color palette area and in the Name box.

You can opt to rename the uploaded color palette.

12.   To replace the color palettes, check the Replace Color Palettes box.

13.   Click .

A notification displays once the color palettes file is uploaded.

14.   To export color palettes, click . The .excp file is exported. You can now move this file to the desired location.

15.   To modify the general colors to be used for visualizations, click the General Colors tab.

The default general colors will be based on the theme being modified. For the Light theme, it is named GeneralColorsLight and for the Dark theme, it is named GeneralColorsDark. Both of these default files cannot be deleted.

 

16.   Click any of the color boxes to display the Color dialog.

17.   Modify the general colors: AxisColor, BackColor, BorderColor, FocusColor, ForeColor, MajorGridColor, MinorGridColor, MissingColor, SelectionColor. SnapshotColor, ZebraStripeColor.

Or enter the corresponding Hex color code.

For example:

18.   Click  to make a duplicate copy of the new theme. It will be added in the General Colors drop-down list.

 

NOTE	The Set Default and Remove buttons are now enabled.

 

Repeat step 17 to modify the general colors.

Once the changes in the theme is saved and it is selected in the opened workbook, all of the defined General Colors will be added as options in the General Colors drop-down list of a Color variable in a visualization.

For example:

19.   Select any of the duplicate general colors and click  to make it the default.

20.   To delete any of the duplicate general colors, select it in the General Colors drop-down list and click .

 

21.   To modify the Foreground, Background, Button, Button Foreground, and Input colors for the editor style of the Dark theme, click the Editor tab.

 

22.   Click any of the color boxes to display the Color dialog and select or enter the preferred color.

23.   To modify the shape palettes that can be used with the workbook theme, click the Shape Palette section to expand.

24.   Click Save  to save the changes.