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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Reporting => Topic started by: FerdH4 on 22 Apr 2026 09:26:52 AM

Title: Is there technique to control color assignments in canned visualizations?
Post by: FerdH4 on 22 Apr 2026 09:26:52 AM
I have a stakeholder who has a really strong interest in controlling colors in a Stacked Column visualization - I'm using Cognos v11.2.3 and using the canned Stacked Column graph found in the "11.0 visualization" gallery.

This can't be solved just by changing the Palette as this stakeholder wants me to set specific colors for each of the 10 known text values which represent the Segments in the columns.  Like when the related data field has a value of "Low" color the related segments (and legend) as yellow. 

If this isn't an option available with the 11.0 visualizations, can this be done using graphs from other galleries like maybe the really old-school canned graphs from v10?
Title: Re: Is there technique to control color assignments in canned visualizations?
Post by: dougp on 22 Apr 2026 11:19:02 AM
Quote10 known text values

That sounds like legend entries, for which I'm pretty sure you can set the palette.  Maybe example input data and desired outputs.