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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
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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