Change Text Color Based on Field Parameters

[npaadmin]

Hi Guys,

Quick question, I have a field, let's call it Field A, and this field has text in it.

Now, I have another field, Field B. Field B may or may not have text in it.

What I want to do is this. If Field B DOES have text of any kind in it, I want the color of the Text in Field A to change to red.

I've done this with validation from a drop down list before with other fields, but I cannot get this one to work, all it does it erase what's in Field A instead of updating the color.

Here is a sample of the calculation I'm trying.

Case ($Field B} = "*" ; TextColor ( Field A ; RGB ( 4 ; 54 ; 255 )))

Any insight or help with the Calculation would be great.

Thanks in Advance,

[comment]

I don't think validation is the correct tool for this. Define Field A to auto-enter the following calculation:

Case ( IsEmpty ( Field B ) ; TextColorRemove ( Field A ) ; TextColor ( Field A ; RGB ( 4 ; 54 ; 255 ) ) )

Uncheck the "Do not replace existing value..." option.

P.S. RGB ( 4 ; 54 ; 255 ) is more blue than red.

[nick_jp]

Hi Comment,

Is there any way to change the color of text for an unstored calculated field depending on it's content? You can't modify with a script and I can't get it by putting a TextColor() statement in the calculation defenition.

Edited August 28, 2007 by Guest

[Vaughan]

"I can't get it by putting a TextColor() statement in the calculation defenition."

You should be able to.

[nick_jp]

Without even putting in a case statement to change the color yet - the following is always black.

Somthing like:

Unstored, = TextColor ( GLOBALS::cDateMain + __pk_DateID - 1; RGB ( 5; 10; 255) )

[Vaughan]

The field's formatting overrides the calculation.

Go back to the source text and remove its text colour, or set it to something other than black as a test (like green).

[nick_jp]

You're right. The field format is overwriting it. Not sure what I can do about it.

I worked around this by making another calc field that looks up the first and changes the color. A hack, but there's only 50 records.

Thanks for your help

[nick_jp]

I found out it's because the field is a date type. If you change field to a text, can change color. For a date, NG.

Is this a bug?

[Lee Smith]

No Bug.

They only work on text, that is why they call them Text Formatting Functions.

HTH

Lee

[npaadmin]

Ok,

I've been messing with this and I keep coming to the same issue. The color of "Field A" does change when "Field B" has text or doesn't have text.

The only issue is that the text I had in "Field A" is replaced by a huge number, ".468398780781783 and then that numbers color will change.

What am I doing wrong?

[comment]

What am I doing wrong?

Hard to tell from here. Does this work for you?

ColorText.fp7.zip

[Lee Smith]

Is the field a number field, the calculation will only work on text. If is text, then Paste a copy of your calculation, or a mock up or demo of your file.

Lee