Background Color

Syntax: <colors type="background" …>

Example: <colors use="@ts" label=" Technology Streams" type="background"> … </colors>

Use: Defines the fill color for the System Model item.

By default, a colors group defines the background color of an item. It can be applied to any System Model item. By default, it applies to component.

If multiple items match, the color for each is displayed as a band across the item.

Band spacing

Syntax: <colors use="xpath" spacing="spacing" type="background" …>

Example: <colors use="@introduced" spacing="proprotional"> … </colors>

Use: Indicates if the size of each color band is proportional to the number of matches or even distributed (fixed). The default is fixed.

Color Direction

Syntax: <colors use="xpath" angle="spacing" type="background" …>

Example: <colors use="@introduced" angle="30"> … </colors>

Use: Indicates the angle in degrees, offset from vertical for the color bands. The default value is 0.

An angle of means it must be colored from left to right across the item, in the order they are specified in the <colors> group. An angle of 180º means the colors go from right to left.

The direction assumes the object is square. If the dimensions are not even, the colors are scaled across the object.

An angle of 10 degrees


An angle of 10 degrees

Color gradient

Syntax: <colors use="xpath" blur="blur" type="background" …>

Example: <colors use="@introduced" blur=" 0.75"> … </colors>

Use: Indicates the amount of blurring of the color bands in the range from 0 to 1. The default value 0 indicates that each color has a hard boundary. The value 1 indicates that the colors appear even across the object.

A blur of 1.0


A blur of 1.0