Colour selection / text colour

Column whose fields are formatted to receive a background colour or a text colour.

Background colour

Text color

Choice of colour

To use the colours you have to configure them in a third table.

Note : It will then be necessary to call the configured entries in the desired table by calling them with a column of type Select (list of another table).

Predefined

It is possible to use the predefined colours in the TimeTonic palette :

Background colour

Text colour

Custom color

TimeTonic lets you choose a custom colour.

For that, it is enough to enter its hex code in the cell:

Note: the new colour will be automatically added to the booklet palette:

Background colour

Text colour

Result

Call the configured entries in the desired table with a column of type Selection (list from another table).

Background color

Note : In this case where only the background colour has been configured, the text colour will automatically be adapted for better visibility. For example :

Third table                                                    Final table

Andrea has no background colour set -> default gray text

Lucie has a light background colour -> her default black text

Leo has a dark background colour -> his default white text

Text color

Background colour + text colour

In my third party table, I can set a light green text colour, and a pink background colour :

Here is the result obtained from this special configuration :