Regarding standardization of Colors in Pie chart Categories

Dear BI Experts,
I have an issue regarding Pie Charts in the WAD. When we have 5 categories defined in the Pie chart and each category has got its own defined color.
issue no 1: It is very difficult to go to each cahrt and select the colors for each chart in each category. Is there any place where we can define the colors in common?
issue no 2: When we have the data for all the categories it is doing good. In case of data not available for any purticular category the color defined for that category is coming for the next category. which shud not happen.
Is there any chance of solving this?
Anyone please help me in this concern. Very much awaited.
Regards,
Kishore.

Bhanu,
Sorry about the late response ... connectivity issues....
As for the color issue - you would have fixed colors to each series ... and when there is no data for one of them then that particular series is absent which would mean that the next series would take its place.
Example :
Original query -
4 categories with 4 colors
If one of the categories does not have data then the query would have 3 categories and category 4 would take the place of category 3 and hence the issue of the colors...
I was not able to simulate the same however ....
1. If you had the same data set in Excel - are the colors proper- any Standard data set / BeX chart
2. Is there anyway you can fix the number of categories by way of restricted Key figures etc ? then if that category is present in the query even if there is not data the colors should be maintained.
Arun
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