PeopleSoft Create Chart Graph Tutorial Example Part 5

We are in Part 5 of this tutorial series, that explains how to create a chart in PeopleCode using the Chart API Class. We saw how to create a chart control using Application Designer in Part 1. We also discussed how to write PeopleCode to render a beautiful chart on the page in Part 2. In Part 3 we discussed all the possible chart types in PeopleSoft ranging from 2D to 3D. Examples of all the charts created through PeopleCode were provided in the same part. Part 4 of the series provided some advanced chart options like gridlines and legends. In this post we will discuss how to colour your charts. We will show how to apply beautiful and cool looking colours to your PeopleSoft chart. You can refer to the related post section below if you are keen in previous parts.

You can use the delivered “setcolor” method to create colourful charts through PeopleCode. You will have to pass an array of colour values to this method and this method is invoked using the chart object you saw in Part 2. Here are some colourful charts created through PeopleCode

Create Colorful Charts Through PeopleCode

PeopleSoft provides the following colour options and you can combine them in any order to provide the desired chart colour you are after; Refer to the table below

Colour Value	System Variable	Description
-1	%ChartColor_Series_Default	Default Color Series
0	%ChartColor_Black	Black
1	%ChartColor_Blue	Blue
2	%ChartColor_Cyan	Cyan
3	%ChartColor_DarkGray	DarkGray
4	%ChartColor_Gray	Gray
5	%ChartColor_Green	Green
6	%ChartColor_LightGray	Light Gray
7	%ChartColor_Magenta	Magenta
8	%ChartColor_Orange	Orange
9	%ChartColor_Pink	Pink
10	%ChartColor_Red	Red
11	%ChartColor_White	White
12	%ChartColor_Yellow	Yellow
13	%ChartColor_Red_Orange	Red Orange
14	%ChartColor_Yellow_Green	Yellow Green
15	%ChartColor_Blue_Violet	Blue Violet
16	%ChartColor_Purple	Purple
17	%ChartColor_Yellow_Orange	Yellow Orange

You can also rotate a 3D chart (not a 2D) by setting the rotatingangle property for a chart. I tried rotating a 3D bar chart to 180, 270 and 300 degrees and in each of the cases the output obtained is shown below. Note that you can rotate the chart to any angle between 0 and 360 degrees. Further, specifying this property against a chart of type 2D does not throw any error at runtime. It is simply discarded by PeopleSoft. Examples of rotated charts are provided below