Configure pie chart colors for Project Management

You can configure the colors used to represent maps, topics, images, and resources on the pie charts available through the Project Management view.

About this task

The same colors you specify for the Project Management view are also used for the pie chart available from the DITA Map view.

Important: Make configuration changes in a test environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production environment.

1. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
2. In the repository's /system/conf collection, check out and open one of the following files:
   • map_status.xml to configure colors for the map portion of the chart
   • topic_status.xml to configure colors for the topic portion of the chart
   • image_status.xml to configure colors for the image portion of the chart
   • resource_status.xml to configure colors for the resources portion of the chart
   Note: These files are also used to configure the workflow for these objects in your Content Store, so they should be updated with care.
3. Locate the cycle to configure.
   For example, to configure the Authoring cycle, locate the Authoring cycle element:

   <cycle name="Authoring" type="work" initial="true" level="0">

4. For each <state> element in the cycle, enter the RGB values separated by semicolons to configure a pie chart color for that state.
   In this example, the pie chart color for the done state for a map is set to blue:

   <state name="done" type="end" level="6" color="0;0;255">
      <lockable>
         <objtypes>
            <type>none</type>
         </objtypes>
      </lockable>
      <milestone/>
      <nextStates>
         <next>draft</next>
      </nextStates>
   </state>

   Tip: There are several web sites that match colors with RGB values.
5. Save, close, and check in the file.
6. Repeat from Step 3 to configure colors for additional document objects.
   Tip: To make it easy for users to understand the pie chart, use consistent colors, perhaps in varying shades, for each state across all document objects (for example, blue for work, yellow for edit/review, green for done).
7. Inform users of the changes and ask them to close and reopen their CCMS Desktop to apply the changes.