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Changing the background colour of controls on a form

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Posted on by cjohnson300 213

Hi

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 Profile Picture
    ergun sahin 8,824 Moderator on at
    RE: Changing the background colour of controls on a form

    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 Profile Picture
    huijij 19,811 on at
    RE: Changing the background colour of controls on a form

    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

    regards

  • cjohnson300 Profile Picture
    cjohnson300 213 on at
    RE: Changing the background colour of controls on a form

    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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