Crystal report & Chart color

If you're using the version of Crystal that comes with Visual Studio, then there isn't a way to set them.

If you're using a standalone version of Crystal then you can do it through the designer by rt-clicking on the section and selecting Format -> Select Item and then specify the color desired.

HTH

frodoman

By the way I didn't directly answer, but it isn't possible to set the colors through RDC - it can only be done in the designer.  http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2014923.asp

frodoman

Hi frodoman,

You r correct. I think there is no way to generate the color dynamically. I am using crystal report version 10.0. There in the chart color format designer window, we can specify the graph content color. But what I required is to specify the same dynamically...using some conditions.
Because in my gantt chart, I want more than one bars have the same color and next set of bars have another color as they belongs to same group.
If I specify the color through the designer window, it wouldn't update the color of the newly added group data in the data base..(because we r specifying a particular color for a group). Then we have to specify a new color manually through the report designer window for that group, thats the problem... Also the database contains thousands of group means we need to specify thousands of colors in the designer window....that is not practical I think...
So what I am searching is a way to specify the colors (can be three colors, so if we have more than three groups, the fourth group will take the first group's color) dynamically so that each alertnative group will have different color always.
(cycles through these three colors). Is there any way to do this.... please help me...

Thanks & Regards
Jayaraj S