It seemed like a simple request: ‘Can you make that chart red, always?’ and it kind of is… but “if it doesn’t take 5 seconds, it’ll take 5 days” seemed to be coming true.
So we jumped into the Indicator, and thought ‘There must be a colour(color) or theme value on the form right?’ except there wasn’t.
But we’ve seen it done before, we must be missing something, lets load up the XML and try some of these hidden values. No joy.
We went round the houses a little, I won’t bore you, I’ll just give you the answer.
- Widget type: Score
- Visualisation: Dial
- Indicator: Choose whatever indicator you need to display.
You won’t see any visible fields on the form to set colour for this one.
So now open the indicator.
- Scroll down to Targets tab.
- Create a new Target.
- Set the color scheme (Create a new record, you can set all the same colours and set Range limit 1 to 0, 2 to 25, 3 to 50, 4 to 100). We’re essentially just saying ‘Make it green!’
- Now back on the same Target record, in the related list of ‘Target values’ create a new one.
- Set start date to way back, let’s go with the year 2000! What a year hey? Anyway,
- Set a value of 0.
- Review date can be empty.
Reload your dashboard ensuring you saved everything.
Oh wait, no colour change? Strange.
Now, here’s the final piece, set a direction on the indicator e.g. ‘Maximise’.
Ok, now refresh! Solved!
I didn’t find this all that straight forward honestly, so I’m sharing it with you all in the hopes it saves you time.
Whilst targets do have other implications, this was one of the only ways we could find to set the colour(color). Are you aware of any others? Please share if so!
Cheers all!
