Custom Color Palette for Charts / CSS

Is there a way of creating a custom color palette for charts (as you can do it in WebIntelligence) and install it on the tomcat?
Or will I have to set my custom colors in the css? And if so: where can I find a description of classes for Charts? Is there any description of css classes at all? All I could find was a list of classes for a crosstab (but no description).
Thank you
Carola

Carola,
Dirk Mayrock has a nice list here Design Studio 1.1 Full List of CSS classes (?)
I think you have seen that already.
Also see Styling a chart in Design Studio
Especially see participated David Gyurasz as he has answered several CSS questions CSS-Customizing of Column-Combination chart as an example
Tammy

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Can I define the colors of a chart by a custom color palette in Design Studio (as you can do it in Web Intelligence) or does SAP intend to implement such a function in a next release? With CSS this isn't fully possible, because it doesn't allow you to coloring the additional line like the corresponding main line.
I've already seen and commented this post Re: Custom Color Palette for Charts / CSS, but it's still unanswered. Maybe I've with a new discussion more success.
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Carola,
Dirk Mayrock has a nice list here Design Studio 1.1 Full List of CSS classes (?)
I think you have seen that already.
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1. Go to the following directory on the server side Installation Directory \SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\images
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ssailer wrote:
> I work with several sites that use very similar colors,
which I find
> myself using over and over again. How can I save a set
of custom
> colors to a palette and bring it up for use at a later
date?
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