Define colors for enumeration items

You can define the colors for display of enumeration items in data workbenches, content areas, and business charts:

1. Go to the Reusable Elements tab.
2. Right-click the User Interface Groups node and select Create New Style Group.
3. Click the new style group node and set the attributes:
   • Name: Change the name to a meaningful name for display in the explorer in Alfabet Expand.
   • Caption: Change the caption to a meaningful caption for display in the Alfabet user interface in the views to edit the coloring for a new custom theme.
   • Type: Select Enum.
4. For each enumeration item in your enumeration, do the following:
   1. Right-click the style group node and select Create Style.
   2. Click the new style node and change the Name and Caption attributes to match one of the enumeration item values in your enumeration.
   3. Expand the style node, click the child nodes and set the Default Color attribute for the following colors:
      • Chart Color: The color used in business charts to represent the enumeration item.
      • Background Color: The background color used in data workbenches and content areas for the enumeration item.
      •  Border Color: The border color used in data workbenches and content areas for the enumeration item.
      •  Color: The font color used for the text of the enumeration item in data workbenches and content areas.

       

5. Go to the Meta-Model tab.
6. For each enumeration item in your enumeration, do the following:
   1. Click the enumeration item node and edit the attributes:
      • Style Group: Select the style group for the enumeration.
      • Style: Select the style of the enumeration item in the style group.