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title: Adding Dashboard Items
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title: Add Dashboard Items
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# Adding Dashboard Items
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# Add Dashboard Items
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To create a dashboard item in the Dashboard Designer, click the corresponding button in the **Home** ribbon tab.
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This creates an empty dashboard item, and displays the required data sections for binding this item to data (for instance, the image below displays the [Pivot](designing-dashboard-items/pivot.md) dashboard item and corresponding data sections).
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This creates an empty dashboard item, and displays the required data sections for binding this item to data (for instance, the image below displays the [Pivot](dashboard-item-settings/pivot.md) dashboard item and corresponding data sections).
Perform the following steps to design a dashboard item.
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*[Bind](binding-dashboard-items-to-data/binding-dashboard-items-to-data.md) the dashboard item to data.
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*[Bind](bind-dashboard-items-to-data/bind-dashboard-items-to-data.md) the dashboard item to data.
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* Perform the required [data shaping](data-shaping.md) operations (such as grouping, sorting and filtering).
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* Use the [interactivity](interactivity.md) features to enable interaction between various dashboard items.
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* Adjust the dashboard item's [position and size](dashboard-layout/dashboard-items-layout.md) and specify the [dashboard item caption](dashboard-layout/dashboard-item-caption.md) settings.
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* Specify specific dashboard item settings based on its type. To learn more, see [Designing Dashboard Items](designing-dashboard-items.md).
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* Specify specific dashboard item settings based on its type. To learn more, see [Dashboard Item Settings](dashboard-item-settings.md).
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After you have created and designed the dashboard item, you can create an exact copy. To do this, click the **Duplicate** button in the **Home** ribbon tab...
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# Coloring
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The Dashboard Designer provides the capability to manage coloring of dashboard item elements. You can choose whether to use a global color scheme providing consistent colors for identical values across the dashboard or a local color scheme that provides an independent set of colors for each dashboard item. The Dashboard Designer also allows you to edit colors automatically assigned from the default palette.
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The Dashboard Designer allows you to paint dashboard item elements such as chart series points or pie segments.
You can paint the following [dashboard items](../dashboard-item-settings.md):
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* Chart
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* Scatter Chart
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* Pie
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* Pie Map
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* Range Filter
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* Treemap
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## Color Scheme Overview
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The dashboard supports two ways to color dashboard item elements:
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* A **Global Color Scheme** uses consistent colors for identical values across the dashboard. The image below shows a dashboard that contains Pie and Chart dashboard items. Pie segments and chart series points that correspond to _Wisconsin_, _Oregon_ and _Idaho_ dimension values use identical colors from the default palette.
For a global color scheme, the dashboard reserves automatically generated colors for specific values regardless of the filter state.
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* A **Local Color Scheme** uses an independent set of colors for each dashboard item. The image below shows Pie segments that use colors from a local color scheme. These colors do not affect the Chart items that use a global scheme.
For a **Local** color scheme, the dashboard reassigns palette colors when the filter state is changed.
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>**Local** colorization paints dashboard item elements more quickly because the control does not request all possible colors and requests only colors used in the current item.
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## Color Measures and Dimensions
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You can use predefined color modes to paint individual dimensions or all measures in a dashboard item.
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The following color settings are available:
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| Color Mode Option | Description |
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|**Default**| Enables or disables coloring depending on the dashboard item's type. For example, for TreeMap arguments and Chart series, **Default** means **Hue**. For Chart arguments, **Default** means **None**. |
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|**Hue**| Elements use different colors. |
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|**None**| Elements use the same color. |
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## Documentation
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Refer to the following help topics for more information on how to configure color variation in the WinForms Designer:
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# Coloring Concepts
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The Dashboard Designer provides you with the capability to color dashboard item elements by associating dimension values/measures and specified colors. You can choose whether to use a global color scheme to provide consistent colors for identical values or specify a local color scheme for each dashboard item.
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*[Supported Dashboard Items](#supporteditems)
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*[Color Schemes](#color-schemes)
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*[Coloring Dimensions and Measures](#coloring-dimensions-and-measures)
The dashboard provides two ways of coloring dashboard item elements.
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* Using a global color scheme that provides consistent colors for identical values across the dashboard. The image below shows the dashboard containing Pie and Chart dashboard items. Pie segments and chart series points corresponding to 'Beverages', 'Condiments' and 'Diary Products' dimension values are colored using identical colors from the default palette.
> When a local color scheme is used, the dashboard reassigns palette colors when the filter state is changed.
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## <aname="coloring-dimensions-and-measures"/>Coloring Dimensions and Measures
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Dashboard items allow you to manage the coloring of individual dimensions or all dashboard item measures using predefined coloring modes.
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| Default | Dimension values/measures are colored by default. To learn how specific dashboard items color their elements by default, see the **Coloring** topic for the corresponding dashboard item. |
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| Hue | Dimension values/measures are colored by hue. If coloring by hue is enabled, a data item indicates this using the  indicator. |
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### Coloring Dimension Values
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To specify the coloring mode for the required dimension, click the dimension's [menu button](../../ui-elements/data-items-pane.md) and use the **Color by** submenu. For instance, the image below shows the Chart dashboard item whose 'Country' dimension is colored by hue.
To specify the coloring mode for dashboard item measures, click the [menu button](../../ui-elements/data-items-pane.md) of any measure and use the **Color by** submenu. For instance, the image below shows the Pie dashboard item whose measures are colored by hue.
If you enabled coloring by hue for several dimensions/measures, all combinations of dimension values/measures will be automatically colored using different colors from the default palette. To learn how to customize these colors, see [Customizing a Color Scheme](customizing-a-color-scheme.md).
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# Coloring
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The Dashboard Designer associates dimension values/measures and specified colors to paint dashboard item elements. This topic describes how to configure color settings in the WinForms Designer.
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## Coloring Basics
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The following concepts are common to both Desktop and Web Dashboard controls:
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* Color Modes
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* Color Schemes
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* Supported Dashboard Items
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Refer to the following topic for more information about common concepts: [Coloring Basics](../coloring.md).
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## Color Mode: None
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You can disable default color variation for dashboard item elements.
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If you add a [TreeMap](../../dashboard-item-settings/treemap.md) to a dashboard, individual elements (titles) use different colors:
In the Chart settings, move _State_ from Arguments to Series. **Default** now means **Hue** in this new context. The coloring indicator () on the data item shows that color variation by hue is enabled.
Corresponding _State_ fields are painted with the same colors, so you can associate and compare data from all dashboard items. This happens because all items use **Global Colors** (the default setting). You can see the switch to **Global Colors** in the Ribbon. Click **Edit Colors** to modify the colors used in the palette:
> The dashboard uses the default palette. This palette contains 20 unique colors to paint dimension values/measures. For more information on how to change default colors or create a new color table, refer to the following help topic: [Customizing a Color Scheme](customizing-a-color-scheme.md).
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This is how the Dashboard appears after you change the color for *Georgia* in the palette:
Colors modified in the local color scheme do not affect items that use the global color scheme. The following image shows a custom color for _Georgia_ in the Treemap:
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