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    Trick for turning a single bar in a bar chart a different color than the rest?

    Domo Employee
    in Charting

    I have a basic bar chart and I'd like for one of the bars to be a different color than the rest.  Is this possible?

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    • Coach
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      It depends what you have on your X-axis , usually a Date field, so lets use "Date" on this example.

       

      Lets said you want to show always Yesterday (Bar in Green) and the rest of days (Bars in Blue)

       

      you can do that creating a beastmode that will become your series.

       

      BeastMode: Test

       

      case when `Date` = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE() , interval -1 day) then 'Green' else 'Blue' end

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    • Member

      In the Chart Properties area, you can click on Colors and choose the colors you want to use for each bar. By default they'll be different colors, but you can set all of them to be the same and then select the single series you want to be a different color.

       

      See attached screenshot. Hope this helps!

    • Domo Employee

      what about for a single bar chart that only has one series?

    • Member

      If it's a single series, I'm not sure how you could change the color of a single bar. I guess we'll both be learning on this thread.

       

      Good luck!

    • Coach
      Answer ✓

      It depends what you have on your X-axis , usually a Date field, so lets use "Date" on this example.

       

      Lets said you want to show always Yesterday (Bar in Green) and the rest of days (Bars in Blue)

       

      you can do that creating a beastmode that will become your series.

       

      BeastMode: Test

       

      case when `Date` = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE() , interval -1 day) then 'Green' else 'Blue' end

      Domo Arigato!

      **Say 'Thanks' by clicking the thumbs up in the post that helped you.
      **Please mark the post that solves your problem as 'Accepted Solution'
    • Domo Employee

      Did the trick.  thanks!

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