Saving a Color Scheme


You can save a color scheme for later reuse or to share it with others. If you save the color scheme to disk or in the library, you can use it in other analyses. If you save it as a document color scheme, you can use it again within the analysis. A document color scheme can be selected for a specific visualization in the analysis from the Colors page of the visualization properties. You can also select it as the default color scheme to use for a specific column as well as for new visualizations in the analysis. See Column Properties – Properties, Column Properties Descriptions, and Options – Visualization to learn more about using default color schemes.

  1. Open the Visualization Properties dialog, and go to the Colors page.

  2. Click on the Color Schemes menu icon, color_color_schemes_menu_icon.png.

  3. Select Save As > File....

    Response: The Save Color Scheme dialog is displayed.

  4. Specify a file name and a location for the color scheme.

  5. Click Save.

  1. Open the Visualization Properties dialog, and go to the Colors page.

  2. Click on the Color Schemes menu icon, color_color_schemes_menu_icon.png.

  3. Select Save As > Library Item....

    Comment: The menu option Library Item... is not available if you are working offline (without a connection to a server).

    Response: The Save as Library Item dialog is displayed.

    Comment: The path in the upper part of the dialog shows your current location in the folder structure of the library.

  4. Navigate to the folder where you want to save the color scheme.

    Comment: Double-click on a folder to open it. Double-click on the folder with two dots, "..", to move up in the folder hierarchy. Click on the New Folder button to create a new folder to save your color scheme in. To modify folder permissions, click on the Folder Permissions... button. To learn more about permissions, see Permissions.

  5. Specify a name for the color scheme.

  6. Optionally, type one or more Keywords describing the color scheme. Other users can then browse color schemes using keywords when opening from the library.

    Comment: Keywords are separated by a semicolon, i.e., if you write "corporate colors; categorical" this will be two keywords, "corporate colors" and "categorical".

  7. Click Save.

  1. Open the Visualization Properties dialog, and go to the Colors page.

  2. Click on the Color Schemes menu icon, color_color_schemes_menu_icon.png.

  3. Select Save As > Document Color Scheme....

    Response: The Save Document Color Scheme dialog is displayed.

  4. Click the New color scheme radio button and enter a name in the text field to save as a new document color scheme. Select the Replace existing color scheme radio button to overwrite a previously saved document color scheme. Select the color scheme to overwrite from the drop-down list.

  5. Click OK.

    Response: The saved document color scheme is now available in the Color Schemes menu.

See also:

Color Schemes Overview