How to change Birt default palette colors

Hi all, I would like to know if there is any way to change Birt default palette colors. For now when I add a new Bar Chart and I go to the "Format Chart" tab and init I select the "Series" option and then I press the "Series Palette" button I see that the first color is "blue" and that the second color is "red". I would like to change it to different color but for ALL charts.for example that the first color will be "green" and the second color will be "brown". Also I would rather do that in one place, maybe to use a code in the "initialized" (or "before factory") section of the report or maybe to change some files in Eclipse or the Viewer. Note: I have seen this (<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/_/designing-birt-reports/1466-styling-report-and-script-to-change-default-chart-palette'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/_/designing-birt-reports/1466-styling-report-and-script-to-change-default-chart-palette</a>) example, but as I said before in this example they are calling a function for each chart and I would like to avoid that. Hope that my question is clear.Waiting to hear from you.Have a great week.Shlomi

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GLO_FR

Hi,
you have to change the ThemesReportItems.rptlibrary and put it in the eclipse plugin folder (don't remember the exact path)

If you use BRDPro/ihub, publish it in the resources folder of your Ihub with the right privileges

ShlomiW

First of all, thank you for the reply. Second, can you tell me what it means to <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="GLO_FR" data-cid="121357" data-time="1381944585"><div>change the ThemesReportItems.rptlibrary</div></blockquote> I don't think that I know this library or if I know how to find / change it. Again thank youWaiting to hear from youShlomi

GLO_FR

Are you using BIRT open Source or BIRT Designer Pro ?

ShlomiW

I think "Open Source", I'm using Eclipse.

GLO_FR

mmm, with BIRT OS I don't know if it's possible.In fact, you can't use Theme with chart so you can't create a library whith a chart theme. You always have the possibility to put some script and use a custom css file<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-functions-lib/wiki/SetChartPalette'>http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-functions-lib/wiki/SetChartPalette</a>

ShlomiW

In the end we implemented the Chart Da Vinci solution that can be found here: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/_/designing-birt-reports/1313-build-professional-looking-charts-with-birt-chart-da-vinci'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/_/designing-birt-reports/1313-build-professional-looking-charts-with-birt-chart-da-vinci</a>