color code the to do list

Is it possible to change the blues in the to do list (v5.0), so different workflows could have different colors... or even different tasks in a job could have different colors? Just wondering...

maureen

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sajiddc

I doubt that is possible unless you start messing with the code. But then again, it is not a good idea to mess with the code. Sometimes, files do get overwritten by SP releases and ofcourse you will loose IWOV support for those files.

May be the 5.x provides a functionality like the one you are looking for. Please let us know if you do find an answer. This will definately help others as well

Migrateduser

Just like a woman to want to use pretty colors to classify things. Smiley Happy

I would think this would end up as a feature request, and very low on the list if they even considered it.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
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DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Adam Stoller

I don't believe there is a supported way to do this within the existing TeamSite GUIs (though the WebDesk interface does a slightly better job of this than the WebDesk Pro interface) - however, if you enjoy Java programming - you might want to look into Interwoven's openAPI - which would allow you to access information about the workflows. All you'd have to do is program a UI around it - i.e. SMOP [Small Matter Of Programming]

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

mogoo

SMOP... that's what I had suspected. Thanks for the input!

Note to Dave... Women come up with all the best ideas, don't you know that by now??? And just leave it to a man to sit back and ridicule women's good ideas, only to later come back and say "That's brilliant! How can I get my todo list to do that?" Smiley Wink

maureen

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Migrateduser

Touche. But is it that dumb to sit back and let you do all the work and then steal it from you? You have to know that I'll be the first one emailing you asking for the solution if you find it. Then I can show my colleagues how brilliant I was to track down that cool new look. This is what years of experience affords me. Smiley Happy

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Bowker

Marueen,

Yes you can. Here's how:

In my workflow I put the code in the "description" to change the color of the description to what I want.

My code looks like:
my $uDescription = "<font color=green> " . __VALUE__('uDescription') . " </font> ";

I'm not sure what that's going to look like for you here, so...

my $uDescription = "?lt;font color=green?gt; " . __VALUE__('uDescription') . " ?lt;/font?gt; ";

replace all the ? with & in the above statement and voila - the description in the web desk interface will be green. In the 'old' UI you will actually see the 'font' tags.

Migrateduser

If I'm understanding this, what you described will only change the font of the text, not the background colors, correct?

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

mogoo

Ah ha! Brilliant, bowker! I'd rather change the bg color, but the text color is a great compromise -- at least it will show SOME differentiation between tasks. Plus, it'll make the to do list look "purty"! I'll test it out, thanks!
maureen

mogoo

By "old UI", what do you mean? Because I'm in v5.0, and I'm seeing <font>
maureen

Adam Stoller

"Old UI" => "WebDesk Pro" => The UI available for all roles.
"New UI" => "WebDesk" => The UI for Authors *only*

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

Migrateduser

Couldn't you use some inline style to make the background a different color? Something like <h1 STYLE="background-color: #FFFF66>Description</h1> ..

I don't know if this will work since I am also using 5.01.

-Mark

Migrateduser

The embedded HTML markup solution will not work in TeamSite 5.5.2.
On occassion, users may want the descriptions of workflow jobs or tasks to contain characters that would be specially treated in raw HTML. For example:


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There is no automatic, reliable way to determine if these characters are being used a markup or simply as characters. Therefore, these characters should now be escaped by the system. If they were not escaped in previous versions, it was probably detected (or reported) as a bug and fixed.
One should always think twice about relying upon undocumented system behavior. Caveat emptor!

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer