Hierarchy Formatting

Each hierarchy has a set of settings for automatic coloring of its levels. Let us look at the example. Click the right mouse button on the hierarchy “Product/Product Categories” and select “Formatting”:

In the window below let us set up the following parameters for the level “Product Categories”:

The table will look like this:

If we select the topmost level as well:

the table will look like this:

Format dialog can also be called from the context menu:

Let us look at one more example. Let us put the “Geography” and “Date/Date.Calendar” hierarchies on rows and let us put the hierarchy “Product/Product Categories” in context. Select “Bikes” in context:

If the automatic level coloring is set for hierarchy “Geography”, but is not set for hierarchy “Date/Date.Calendar”, we will see the following table:

The format rules are going “through” another hierarchy for which they are not defined.

If we set up the format rules for “Date/Date.Calendar” which is placed to the right side of “Geography”, we will get this:

The right formatting rule has priority over the left formatting rule. If we have several levels displayed in the “Date/ Date.Calendar” hierarchy, it will look like this: