Add color to an output?

[lunamuna]

I'm creating an email output from portal row info. Everything works perfectly, but my client wants certain rows to show up bold or in a different color. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

-Heather

[mcstar]

This is fun stuff!

Let's suppose you have records which are identified as code red, code yellow and code green. You want to distinguish these in a portal or on a report.

For each code, create a global container field and maybe an extra field for code other. Use a graphics program to create red, yellow and green circles, or whatever shape. Copy from there and paste the color into the corresponding global container. (It doesn't work to use FM's coloring from the status bar.)

Now create a calculation field, result container, as follows:

color_calc = case(code = "Red", red_color, code = "Yellow", yellow_color, code = "Green", green_color, default_color)

In the portal, place a field portal_relation::color_calc behind or beside other fields.

Now each row should display the correct code color! As for getting this in email, well I don't know.

Have fun -- Mark