Contextural Format: TextColor

[Slater]

Hi Everyone,

I've got 2 fields - the first (CARD) i want to be coloured depending on the date of the other (DATE). I sorted it out, making the first field Card a calculation - but then i found the problem that i'm stuggling with ... i can't then entere info into it.

The calculation is:

CARD=

Case ( DATE ≥ (Get ( CurrentDate )-180) ; TextColor (CARD ; RGB (255;0;0)) ;

DATE ≥ (Get ( CurrentDate )-365) ; TextColor (CARD ; RGB (255;150;0)) ;

DATE ≥ (Get ( CurrentDate )-545) ; TextColor (CARD ; RGB (0;255;0)) ;

TextColor (CARD ; RGB (0;0;0)) )

I thought i'd got round that by making CARD a text field, and having the calculation in define field>auto-enter> specify, which allows the entry, but doesn't do the formatting!

How can i enter into the field, and have it change it's format depending on another field? (I would be using this method on quite a number of different fields, and because of the layout i don't want to introduce other fields.)

Thanks very, very much for any info!

Cheers,

slater

[Slater]

Hi,

I guess that because no one's replied, i'm trying to do something that i can't do!! (please correct me if wrong.)

The best solutiont i can come up with is adding another field, and make it run the text colour calculation:

Case (

Seen_Date ≥ (Get ( CurrentDate )-180) ; TextColor ("n" ; RGB (255;0;0)) ;

etc)

then setting the text to webdings - and the result is a coloured dot that i can place alongside the text field that i want to change colour - not as pretty a solution as i'd hoped, but most importantly i can now enter stuff into the text field.

I had been thinking of trying to make this field sit behind the text field that i want to enter stuff into, but that seems too much grief!

Cheers,

slater

ps, couldn't find anything on the boards that sounded promissing except a couple of dead links

[comment]

First, your calculation can be simplified to:

TextColor ( CARD ;

Case (

DATE ≥ Get ( CurrentDate ) - 365 ; RGB ( 255 ; 0 ; 0 ) ;

DATE ≥ Get ( CurrentDate ) - 545 ; RGB ( 0 ; 255 ; 0 ) ;

0 )

)

Second, this will work if CARD is a text field, auto-entering the formula, and 'Do not replace existing value...' is NOT selected.

[Slater]

Hi Comment,

Thanks for helping me out - the forumlar looks cool, and i'll have a go at the suggestion for the CARD field.

Cheers,

slater