This classic start to a romantic poem assumes that the correct colors are always assigned to the correct flowers; but, for those who create graphs for reports, consistent color assignment can be more of a challenge than an assumption. This challenge is particularly true for the display of group values.

Here is the promised follow up on the Dashboard graph.  In the previous article, I posted the code to create a panel of bullet KPIs displaying three different metrics.  For each KPI, I used 5 columns of data which resulted in a wide and inconvenient structure. A more convenient data structure is