As you already know, you can customize the appearance of widgets in AIMMS WebUI using CSS and annotations . Let us look at how these annotations are generated for a widget and the modifiers available for you to control your customizations.

Annotations

The annotations applied to a WebUI object primarily depends on the pivot settings of that widget. If you inspect any widget in your browser (Right click -> Inspect), you will notice something like below

chart-item bar annotation-sSetI annotation-Ord2 annotation-Mod7Ord2 annotation-Mod11Ord2
annotation-Mod19Ord2 annotation-Element-2 leaf-index1 grouped-bar-index0 stacked-bar-index0

annotation-sSetI and annotation-Element-2 are of interest to us because sSetI is the set to which index i belongs to and Element-2 is the current element that we are inspecting.

../../_images/annotations1.png

The pivot settings in the above image shows that index i is the last index in the X-Axis option. So, different colors are applied to different elements/values of index i and its root set sSetI appears as an annotation. If you switch this order like in the below image, the annotation will include the identifier name annotation-pData (and annotation-Identifier) instead of the root set sSetI. As there is only one identifier in this widget, all the bars get the same color.

../../_images/annotation2.png 
chart-item bar annotation-Identifier annotation-Ord2054 annotation-Mod7Ord3 annotation-Mod11Ord8
annotation-Mod19Ord2 annotation-pData leaf-index1 grouped-bar-index0 stacked-bar-index0

So, the index appearing last in the pivot settings controls the coloring of the elements and the annotations applied. In general, below rules apply:

  1. If Pivot Grouped: is empty, then the last index in Pivot X-Axis or Pivot Stacked: controls the coloring and annotations. The last index in Pivot Stacked: takes precedence over any index in Pivot X-Axis.
  2. Otherwise, the last index in Pivot Grouped: controls the colors and annotations.

By declaring webui::AnnotationsIdentifier, you can create additional annotations which you can use to control the styling.

Last Updated: March, 2020