Data Colors
The card lists one color picker per category — or per series when the Pie card has Apply colors to set to Series. The list follows the switch, so exactly one dimension is colored at a time.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Default Color | Fallback used before any per-item color is resolved |
| One picker per item | The resolved color of that category or series |
Every picker carries the fx button, so a color can be computed by a conditional formatting rule instead of being picked by hand.
Resolution order
For each slice, the first source that returns a color wins:
- Conditional formatting (fx) set on the item in this card
- The Series Color field well, read on the dimension chosen by Apply colors to
- The report theme palette
- The built-in SDM fallback palette
Series Color field
The field expects a hex code such as #FF0000, returned by a measure or a column. Feeding
colors from the model is the practical way to keep a category the same color across every
report page, and to drive colors from a lookup table rather than from the visual.
Because the field is read on one dimension only, switching Apply colors to re-reads the same field on the other dimension — there is no second field to fill in.
A column works when the color is an attribute of the category, which is the usual case: a brand color next to a brand name. A color that identifies the legend value has to be a measure — see Column or measure?.