In addition to formatting each data visualization gadget, dashboard developers can customize font, table, and chart attributes for all data visualization gadgets by modifying the ThemesReportItems library.

The theme library is edited using Actuate BIRT Designer Professional. This library is located in the Resources folder in an Encyclopedia volume, at the following location:

The ThemesReportItems library contains themes to change the appearance and add custom JavaScript to chart gadgets. The following themes are available for chart gadgets:

The ThemesReportItems library also contains cascading style sheet values that can be modified to change the display of all data visualization gadgets. All the default-<report item name> themes defined in the library are used as the default theme for the data visualizations:

If a cross tab gadget is assigned a theme in BIRT Data Analyzer, that theme is used in place of the default-crosstab theme. For more information about using themes with cross tabs, see Using BIRT Data Analyzer.

For more information about managing style sheets for Information Console, see Information Console Developer Guide. Also see BIRT: A Field Guide and Integrating and Extending BIRT, both published by Addison-Wesley.