Why rich text is always in default black. I change it in properties menu, but when in preview mode the color is always black.
When i change field type to text, the color appears as i applied. Is it bug or something?
Subject: Probably works for new documents …
When you change the RTF color in a form, any new documents created will “inherit” those settings as their default.
However, that won’t work for existing documents, as the contents of the RTF in existing documents has their color information stored as part of the rich text.
Let’s look at a simple example. You have a form where the RTF is colored black. When you create a document, and enter some text, the following is stored as you save the document.
<Color=Black>some text
When you change the form so the default is red, and reopen that document, the stored text color takes priority over the field definition, and so you still see Black text. However, new document that have no data will inherit the field’s definition, and will be in Red.
The upshot of this is that any RTF settings, like color, or hide-when formula, that you set on a form will only apply to new documents. You cannot change or override the formatting of existing Rich Text Data by changing the form.