More color options (e.g. border) for objects in views
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It would be useful (to me at least) if there are more options with regards to the coloring of the objects. What I am missing, is the option to change the border color/thickness of an object.
I use that to emphasize for example certain objects, but there are other uses as well. Coloring the whole object is not always an option/solution for this.
What I now need to do, is create a freeform object slightly bigger than the object and put it under the object. By coloring the freeform object I visually almost get the same result. There are a couple of issues with that:
- it adds unnecessary additional objects to my views, effectively creating clutter and can cause problems moving/deleting/resizing.
- the freeform object has a fixed black border or a shadow. So, if I want another border color than black, it does not solve it.
Creating a box with a transparent filling might also be helpful with this.
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Since the wish is more colouring options, I would like to add the following option to this wish:
Have the ability to use multiple colours for an object. Sometimes I'd like to have objects a certain colour to fit a certain legend. For instance I would denote objects that are already in place in green and objects that we do not have yet in orange. Sometimes an objects falls in between (e.g. we partly have the object in place in this example), so I'd like to make it green AND orange.
This could work like the "Fill option" in Excel when adding colours to your cells. Maybe we do not need all the options Bill Gates came up with, but a certain degree of shading would be very welcome.
(On a scale of 1-5, just a meager 1 though)
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I am sorry for the late response. I will discuss this in my next feedback session.
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Hi all,
A short update on this item. We have put this wish on our wishlist so our DEV team can work on this. At the moment, I cannot give details about when they will pick this up. But I can give some information on what is in development right now. At this moment, they are creating the possibility to change the opacity of a shape.
All new features will be communicated via our release channel, so I suggest subscribing to that channel!
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I would also like this very much. Now I have to export the view to XML and import it to set the desired layout.
- Make object text Bold, Italic, different fonts + different colours - Set object border collour + line format2 -
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MG || Gemeente Tilburg If this is not solved yet, you could solve it using the conditional coloring option. Define a multi-select attribute for the object type and set its values accordingly. Then you can define the colors yourself and use the conditional coloring option to show the values corresponding to the slelected options.
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