One ‘Feature’ that notes has been missing is programable control over the background color of any INDIVIDUAL record.
Example;
Messages come in to us from different places with ‘Priorities’ attached to them.
The managers/assistants for each business unit need to easily see the proirity Level of each and act accordingly.
Changing the icon for the message is just not enough. Changing the text size and color can be combined with the icon but the effect would be enhanced by a different background color for the entire row or even a single column for that matter.
I’ve looked at most of the support sites and many commercial and reference books to no avail. Is there presently a way that i’ve just missed or would you guys need to write a few thousand lines of code and go through QC all over again?
thanks
Alex
Subject: row background color
Quoting from the ND6 designer help…
“In Notes client applications, you can set a column’s background color and text color programmatically by selecting the “Use value as color” option on the Info tab of the Column Properties box and then supplying RGB coordinates in the Programmer’s pane as the value for the column.”
Subject: Possible solution
If I understand you correctly, this should be fairly easy. Row background colours work off a set of RGB values, and a hidden column in the view will be set up to interrogate this value and change the colour.
The colour value can be stored in the document (i.e. as a field value) or an @If function in the view column can work it out based on some other field value.
Subject: RE: Possible solution
And you can override any column defined colour by setting a field in a document with the colour pair information that has the name that matches the programmatic reference of the column.
e.g. in the Inbox the colour column is $Sender1, setting a field in a mail document with this name and a colour pair will override any colours set in the mail profile.
I already posted an example in the 6.5 forum.