Changing the background colour of controls on a form

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I have a requirement to change the color of a few controls on a form, and understand this is only possible through code is that correct?

If so, should I be extending the form, the form datasource or the individual controls themselves?

And would this be easier to achieve via event handlers or CoC?

Many thanks in advance

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ergun sahin 8,826 Moderator on at

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You can use control's BackgroundColor property (control.BackgroundColor())

If you're going to make changes to more than one control, it's easiest to write the form's extension via COC. (don't forgot set auto declaration to Yes)

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huijij 19,811 on at

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Hi,

You can set the property by code just set the following 2 properties:

Element.colorScheme(FormColorScheme::RGB); Element.backgroundColor(WinAPI::RGB2int(255,205,65));

https://chaituax.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/setting-background-color-to-a-field-in-a-form/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/user-interface/specify-color-font-background-controls

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cjohnson300 213 on at

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Posting my code to help others in the future

[ExtensionOf(formStr(VendTable))] final class ABC_VendTable_Extension { public void setFieldColours() { OrgDetailGroup_NumberOfEmployees.colorScheme(FormColorScheme::RGB); OrgDetailGroup_NumberOfEmployees.backgroundColor(WinAPI::RGB2int(255,173,119)); OrgDetailGroup_OrgNumber.colorScheme(FormColorScheme::RGB); OrgDetailGroup_OrgNumber.backgroundColor(WinAPI::RGB2int(165,241,169)); } [FormDataSourceEventHandler(formDataSourceStr(VendTable, VendTable), FormDataSourceEventType::Activated)] public static void VendTable_OnActivated(FormDataSource sender, FormDataSourceEventArgs e) { FormRun formRun = sender.formRun(); if (formHasMethod(formRun, "setFieldColours")) { formRun.setFieldColours(); } } }

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