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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Apptio BI
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2025

Custom colour palette in ApptioBI and Cloudability widgets

As a report builder in these two products I struggle to highlight what I want to, due to the standardised default colour palete. We get no ability to change whatever colours the widgets decide on.

I work for a group of companies. Each has it's own identity including certain shades of colour in their marketing identities. Ideally when providing reports comparing/contrasting them, I'd really like to use their own colour shades. It fits with the internal company culture and language, and your eye always leaps to the relevant bar/segment/line as it's in your own shade.
I'd like to be able to import a set of colour #xxxx values and associate each with a specific name. Then utilise those named colours on some widgets.


Similarly in some widgets I want to pick the colour for the 'item' that I am trying to highlight to my colleagues. e.g. This specific item from those shown is 'bad', the rest are fine... Think EC2 families highlight the oldest families. Or oldest storage types. For thos scenario merely allowing us to choose from the available range would suffice.

Idea priority Low