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Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!

Hi Brett,

One quick way to do this is to use HTML syntax in the Label field. For example add "<h1 style="background-color:Tomato;">Tomato</h1>" to the WORKTYPE field in App Designer

You can also use labelcss tags as per the following IBM Technote https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/discussion/labelcss-txt-colors-in-761

Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!

Thanks a ton for the insight, that was almost exactly what I needed! Would you happen to know if there is a way to get just the background behind the text to change color, or maybe even the text itself? When I use the HTML you provided it changes the whole background object to that color and messes with the alignment of the object. I probably explained that horribly, so I attached a picture for reference.

Ideally I'd like to make the change without it impacting the overall alignment/layout of the WOTRACK app. 

Hi Brett,

One quick way to do this is to use HTML syntax in the Label field. For example add "<h1 style="background-color:Tomato;">Tomato</h1>" to the WORKTYPE field in App Designer

You can also use labelcss tags as per the following IBM Technote https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/discussion/labelcss-txt-colors-in-761

Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!

Brett, you can try "<h3 style="color:Tomato;">Hello World</h3>"

Here is a web site I use from time to time to refresh my HTML knowledge. I like this site as it has "Try it yourself" so you can see the code before you put it into maximo.

Thanks a ton for the insight, that was almost exactly what I needed! Would you happen to know if there is a way to get just the background behind the text to change color, or maybe even the text itself? When I use the HTML you provided it changes the whole background object to that color and messes with the alignment of the object. I probably explained that horribly, so I attached a picture for reference.

Ideally I'd like to make the change without it impacting the overall alignment/layout of the WOTRACK app. 

Hi Brett,

One quick way to do this is to use HTML syntax in the Label field. For example add "<h1 style="background-color:Tomato;">Tomato</h1>" to the WORKTYPE field in App Designer

You can also use labelcss tags as per the following IBM Technote https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/discussion/labelcss-txt-colors-in-761

Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!

Michael, 

I actually used that website to try and adjust just the font color, very similarly to your above HTML. The issue that arises when doing that is similar to changing the background color. Not sure what would be causing it, but it moves everything to a "new" line. 

My HTML is VERY rusty, so maybe I'm overlooking something.

Picture for reference:

Brett, you can try "<h3 style="color:Tomato;">Hello World</h3>"

Here is a web site I use from time to time to refresh my HTML knowledge. I like this site as it has "Try it yourself" so you can see the code before you put it into maximo.

Thanks a ton for the insight, that was almost exactly what I needed! Would you happen to know if there is a way to get just the background behind the text to change color, or maybe even the text itself? When I use the HTML you provided it changes the whole background object to that color and messes with the alignment of the object. I probably explained that horribly, so I attached a picture for reference.

Ideally I'd like to make the change without it impacting the overall alignment/layout of the WOTRACK app. 

Hi Brett,

One quick way to do this is to use HTML syntax in the Label field. For example add "<h1 style="background-color:Tomato;">Tomato</h1>" to the WORKTYPE field in App Designer

You can also use labelcss tags as per the following IBM Technote https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/discussion/labelcss-txt-colors-in-761

Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!

Hi Brett

Have you looked at this from IBM? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/conditionally-adding-field-background-colors

You can set the background and/or text color following the instructions in application designer.  Example a yellow background would be bgyellow and yellow would be txtyellow.  Hope this helps

Jim

Michael, 

I actually used that website to try and adjust just the font color, very similarly to your above HTML. The issue that arises when doing that is similar to changing the background color. Not sure what would be causing it, but it moves everything to a "new" line. 

My HTML is VERY rusty, so maybe I'm overlooking something.

Picture for reference:

Brett, you can try "<h3 style="color:Tomato;">Hello World</h3>"

Here is a web site I use from time to time to refresh my HTML knowledge. I like this site as it has "Try it yourself" so you can see the code before you put it into maximo.

Thanks a ton for the insight, that was almost exactly what I needed! Would you happen to know if there is a way to get just the background behind the text to change color, or maybe even the text itself? When I use the HTML you provided it changes the whole background object to that color and messes with the alignment of the object. I probably explained that horribly, so I attached a picture for reference.

Ideally I'd like to make the change without it impacting the overall alignment/layout of the WOTRACK app. 

Hi Brett,

One quick way to do this is to use HTML syntax in the Label field. For example add "<h1 style="background-color:Tomato;">Tomato</h1>" to the WORKTYPE field in App Designer

You can also use labelcss tags as per the following IBM Technote https://community.ibm.com/community/user/asset-facilities/discussion/labelcss-txt-colors-in-761

Hello all, 

I have been asked to find a way to make certain fields in the work order tracking application appear different from others. This will allow techs to focus in on the fields that should be entered every time, I do not want to make these fields required as there are rare occasions where they will be left blank on purpose. 

For example, I'd like to make the "work type" field highlighted or bolded etc. while the "GL Account" filed will stay as it is currently displayed. 

Thanks in advance!