Dynamic background colours in FileMaker

[jaboda]

I had a use case where the user could select the background colour for a record in a list. While it's easy to select a background colour it's less obvious how to make it user-adjustable.

I found a similar example which I've simplified to do this. It creates a container with a coloured image in it which is the cleanest way for my needs. This can then be used as a background image. It could be linked to a web viewer containing a Colour Picker but it's not needed here.

Please let me know what you think and if it can be made more efficient or if there's another way of doing this.

Generate Colour.zip

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1 hour ago, jaboda said:

if there's another way of doing this

Although I am familiar with the method you show, I usually prefer using the TextColor() function with a large rectangle character (or several).