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JonathanHeuer
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

Assign random colors to events in new Calendar report

The new Calendar chart offers the ability to assign colors to events. That is, I'd like to visually differentiate records on this chart by color, but I don't care what color they are. I'd like to assi...
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SamJones3
Quickbase Staff
8 years ago
Hey Jonathan,
In testing the calendar out, I built several formulas of this type:
var number color = 4;  Case(Mod([Record ID#],$color),  1, "#60b54d", 2, "#694092", 3, "#00b0f1", 4, "#ff9511", 0, "#ff0001")
That'll assign one of 5 hex colors used throughout the Quick Base UI to the event. If you want to support more colors, add them as lines in the format:

5, "#ffffff", 

 and increase the variable accordingly.

Here's a version which includes 83 colors: https://www.pastiebin.com/5a9468a997bd4

Sam Jones
QuickBase Product Manager
  • JonathanHeuer's avatar
    JonathanHeuer
    Qrew Cadet
    8 years ago
    These works very nicely with my current data set Sam, thank you! But this still doesn't guarantee unique colors, right? Your formula with 82 colors would yield the same for a record ID of 83 as it would for 165, wouldn't it?

    Not sure if you have a product management role for calendars, but here are some things I would love to see with calendar charts:
    • Dynamic filters. Please.
    • Chart settings to include hours of the day display options for Day/Month views. That is, the settings would include optional start and end times to display (because I never have events starting at 3am or going until 11pm :)
    • Drag to edit events. Drag start/end times to change. Drag entire event to change day or start time.
    Yes I can put these in uservoice.
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    SamJones3
    Quickbase Staff
    8 years ago
    Jonathan,
    Good news! Request 3 is already in there. You just need to make sure your start and end fields are both editable (not summary, formula, or lookup).

    And yes, please put those in User Voice. My team's going to be primarily focusing on other things now, but if we get enough feedback we'll go back to calendars and look at adding other features like those.

    Sam Jones
    QuickBase Product Manager
     
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    JanaBaker
    Qrew Cadet
    8 years ago
    Sam, 

    To follow up your comment about Jonathan's request #3, you said "Request 3 is already in there. You just need to make sure your start and end fields are both editable (not summary, formula, or lookup)."

    Are you saying that if the User manually enters both the Start and End date, that on the Calendar report, the User can drag the Start Date in/out by X amount of days and/or drag the End Date in/out by X amount of days and the dates will adjust?  Right now I am just experiencing the date range moving when i drag it vs the date range adjusting in or out depending on which date you adjust.  Hopefully that makes sense.

    Thank you in advance for the clarification.