Ok, so now we are going to get into an area that is going to cause a little bit of confusion. I will try to explain it as well as I can, but let me know if you have follow on questions.
We are in the process of rolling out a new UI to all customers. Some have taken it, some are yet to. I have no way of knowing which one you are on from here.
In the older UI, the colour palette is this:
DISPLAY_COLOR_PALETTE: [
{value: '#105CAB', name: 'Dark Blue'},
{value: '#21A2E0', name: 'Blue'},
{value: '#107C1E', name: 'Green'},
{value: '#4A1D7E', name: 'Purple'},
{value: '#DF1A7B', name: 'Pink'},
{value: '#EE6C19', name: 'Burnt Orange'},
{value: '#F9A814', name: 'Orange'},
{value: '#FCE205', name: 'Yellow'},
{value: '#848689', name: 'Grey'}
]
This colour palette will appear in all Custom Apps (e.g. Custom List) and if you try to select, update or filter on DisplayColor, you will be using these values.
The new UI uses a new set of values and a different name set. If you go to the Full Details Page or even the Quick Details Page in the new UI, you will only be able to set, update and filter using the new palette. I will see if I can find an equivalent to the table above for the new palette.
To maintain a certain degree of backwards compatability, the components on a screen using the new UI technology (FDP and QDP as mentioned above) will attempt to map the new colours onto the old colours so that at least 'a' colour is available to components using the older technology (Custom Apps).
What this means is that you can have a custom list app up, click on a user story to get the QDP onthe right hand side and the custom list might show "Dark Blue" as the story colour, but the QDP will show it as "Ocean". If you set the colour of a story to Plum using the QDP, the Custom list app will show it as Purple.
The backwards compatabiility does introduce something that you need to be aware of when using the Query box. You might find that you need to use a doubled up query as in the example I originally sent you. The query box doesn't use the name of the colour. The colour pickers in the UI don't show you the underlying hex.
See the mapping image below.
The new colour scheme was used to improve the use of our product by visually impaired peopled, e.g. colour blindness.
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Nik
Rally Sales Engineer
Rally Software
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 10:50 AM
From: Stark
Subject: custom list - query for portfolio item MMF color
Hello Nik,
is it possible to query by the color name, the custom list filter does allow thisß
There are several defined colors - is there a translatation table from all color to its hex values.
Honestly, I don't want to try out all combinations...
see attached example
Thanks
Sebastian
Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 10:40 AM
From: Nik Antonelli
Subject: custom list - query for portfolio item MMF color
Hi Sebastian,
The colours are held in the database as a hex value rather than a string, so a query would look like this
((DisplayColor = #21a2e0) OR (DisplayColor = #105cab))
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Nik
Rally Sales Engineer
Rally Software
Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 10:30 AM
From: Stark
Subject: custom list - query for portfolio item MMF color
Hello,
I assume the color element is a custom element.
Could you give me a hint how I can access this element?
The documentation does not say anything about it: https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm/doc/webservice/
I already tried these:
- (c_Color.Name = "green")
- (Color.Name = "green")
- (Color = green)
and some other variations.
It would be nice if the query editor would have an auto-complete feature
Regards
Sebastian