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palette for this indicator will be the one called ‘Sequential Green Yellow’ in
the config.xml file (Figure 137).
Figure 137
You can see from the screenshot that the custom classification for both
indicators (‘Indicator 1’ which is of type numeric and ‘Indicator 4’ which is of
type categoric) is made up of three separate custom properties:
customColours; customBreaks and customLabels.
If your indicator names are not unique, you can address this by adding the
theme name in front of the indicator name in column B. Both must be
separated by a pipe symbol, e.g. ‘Theme 1|Male’.
customColours
Use this property to set the colours for displaying individual classes or to
set a colour ramp. If the number of colours you define in column D
matches the number of classes in the custom classification then the
colours will be displayed for each class in the same order in which you
enter them in the worksheet. You can set just two colours and the dynamic
report will create a colour ramp between them for as many classes as you
have chosen.
customBreaks
Use this property to set the breaks between different classes. You should
set one more value than the number of classes that you require i.e. if you
want 5 classes you need to enter 6 values for breaks. If you have
categoric data then you must use the exact text label used within the data.
Categoric breaks are case sensitive.
customLabels
Use this property to set the labels for each class that is displayed in the
legend. The labels are applied in the order in which you enter them in the
worksheet. You need to make sure that the number of labels matches the
number of classes you have set up.
customClassifier
Use this property to set the default legend classifier for an indicator to one
of the InstantAtlas standard classifiers. Valid values are ‘equalInterval’,
‘quantile’, ‘natural’, ‘continuous’, ‘standardDeviation’.
customPalette
Use this property to set the default legend palette for an indicator to one of
the legend palettes that are defined the config.xml file. Valid values are the
names of the palettes in the configuration file. To find these, open up the
config.xml file or your report in the Designer and click in the menu bar on
‘Styles’ and the ‘Palettes’. In the ‘Palettes (numeric data)’ tab you can find
the palettes names for numeric indicators and the tab called ‘Colour
Schemes (textual data)’ will show you the names of the categoric palettes.