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Unable to copy/paste chart styles (editor)
Using the 4.19 windows editor, if I create a chart, style it with the editors chart style Ui, and then try to copy that styling to another chart, it fails to copy.
There is no errors shown.
Can chart styles be copied?
If not, then how do you create multiple charts in a report and maintain the consistent styling?
Can you provide please a screen of your action to understand your steps. Of course, the style handling of charts is more special like the text or table styling.
So consider this example:
You have a chart, and you duplicate the chart (Chart-A and Chart-B) (copy and paste).
Then you edit Chart-A with a smaller Font on the title.
Then you want to copy the style of Chart-A and apply it to Chart-B.
Applying the Format is done through the "Format Chart" button in the context menu. But then Copying and pasting said format does not appear to do anything. The Font change does not get applied to Chart-B
Ok, this option allows currently to copy the format of the marked design element. But copying means works here that the styling elements from the top level of the marked element will be copied.
The charts are a complex object with multiple levels and the coloring of the bars for example are not part of the top level. If you set the text styling properties on chart level then it is no top level attribute too.
This option copies all attribute values which you can see at the property register "advanced" (= top level, see screen below) and past the values to the according marked object.
Currently there is no option available to copy the chart styling attributes with the designer. You can script all styling details only and reuse your styling code for all charts.
Chart, top level properties
Thank you for the details @speckyspooky
What about a feature that would let a user select specific advanced properties (such as ctrl+click rows you want to copy) and then paste those properties into other elements/charts?
Setting up scripting is very heavy.
Trying to find a happy middle so theming management of charts is not a nightmare :)
