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Changing the background color of ProClarity Performance Map (aka Heat Map)

Customers often want to set the background color of analytic visualizations such as the ProClarity charts & grids, to match a corporate or dashboard theme. Unlike the ProClarity charts & grids, it's not possible to set the background color of the heat map visualization within ProClarity Professional... it's always a cream color... but it can be changed through a simple modification to the PAS server CSS files.

Cream should be on the list of banned colors, along with sea foam green and salmon.

The color is defined per-language in <PAS virtual directory>/<PAS language>/src/treeview.css:

body {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: #ece9d8;
}

Feel free to change it for each language pack. Although it's unlikely a PAS service pack or hotfix would update this file, you may have to re-apply the changes after installing a SP or hotfix.

The downside to all of this is it's a global change, affecting all heat maps rendered by the PAS server. I have visions of using URL-rewrite to make this dynamic per heat map instance, but unless someone wants to make my vision reality, that's all it is for the moment.

Published Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:45 AM by Wade Dorrell

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About Wade Dorrell

I'm a Program Manager on the SharePoint BI team. I'm passionate about business intelligence blue oceans & giving business decision makers the tools + data to support decisions.

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