How can I set the colors for a Histogram chart?

Hi Jonathan,

I hope all is well,

Unfortunately a histogram will display best when using a colour category that has a small amount of distinct values, preferable between 2-4. So far we don't have any options to alter the colour options for this although going forward we can raise this as an "Idea" if that helps? I Look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Mark

As far as I'm concerned, Histograms with color groupings are unusable at this time. Even with a small number of groupings it will set the last group to nearly transparent. I'm assuming the decision to use opacity levels was based on the decision to group histograms by overlaying them rather than stacking them. I'm not sure how this is any clearer than rendering the histogram in a similar way to a stacked vertical column chart. That would also open up color options so it wouldn't have to be based on opacity. Perhaps have two histogram options, stacked and overlaid?

In either case, yes please raise an "Idea" around making Histograms more readable when using color groupings. Thank you.

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for getting back to me, I have since placed this within our "Idea" section, hopefully going forwards we can get enough votes so that we can have this implemented in one of our future builds. We can see this "Idea" with this link: http://community.yellowfin.bi/topic/histogram-chart-colour-options

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Mark

Great, thanks Mark!

-Jon

Hi Jonathan,

No worries, I will update you when I get news.

Regards,

Mark

Hi Jonathan,

I hope all is well,

I have since looked into this using our latest build of 7.3+ 20170608 and I added the same 2 categories that you added from our SKI Team data. My results are as follows:

We can see the colour differences with the different Camp Rating, although I suspect you are looking to have these colours more defined so that they are less of the opacity, correct?

I look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Mark

Hi Jonathan,

I just want to touch base and question whether or not you had chance to go through my reply. If you can get back to me asap I would appreciate this greatly.

I look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Mark

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for clearing this up that little bit more, I will keep this Idea up for voting till we can get clarification that we can go ahead and put this forward to the Devs to be considered within one of our future builds.

It is clear that we are looking to have these colours more defined, as looking at the Metacarpus - Scapula shows how very similar they are to being the same colour.

NOTE: I have updated the "Idea"

Regards,

Mark

Hi Johnathan,

I just wanted to reach out on this and add a couple options:

Color by reference code - if the field you are intending to color by has a reference code associated with it, you can use these colors.

Change monochrome color - while it may not be easy to see the light values still, you can change the color that is used (so not just the light blue)

Please let me know if either of these will work for you.

Regards,

Nathan