Dashboard Design 2008 allows users to fully control the coloring of their components based on whatever event they desire. For example, if a major alert were to happen I could dynamically change my background to red in order to signal an emergency. This is extremely useful because developers can not only dynamically control the color of bars on a chart but also the rest of the chart components such as the background and text as well.
On the cell highlighted in yellow E2, we have a COUNTIF statement that will set the bar color to red, if any of the regions has their number of items sold below 40. Otherwise the bar color will be set to blue as shown in the following screenshot:
On the chart properties go to the Color tab and click on the square colored box in the fill column. On the bottom of the color palette, choose the Bind to Color option and bind to the cell with the color control (E2, in our case).
Go to the Text tab of the chart properties...