Changing the colour indicators of Journal fields and corresponding Activity sections

[Wayne Richmond]

Hey experts. I'm trying to change the colour indicator of a newly created Journal field and it's corresponding Activity section. Work Notes appears yellow on both, Comments as dark grey in the Activity as is my new field. How do I modify the colours for my new field? I found this article but it doesn't seem to work, perhaps because the Journal fields changed in Jakarta (Geneva?): How Can I Change the background color of a particular activity in the Activity Formatter?

[Jim Coyne · Accepted solution]

There are System Properties for that.   They are named "glide.ui.activity_stream.style.field_name", where field_name is the name of the field you want to have a highlight.

The default value for comments is "transparent".   For the example below, the System Properties are set to the following:

[Wayne Richmond]

Thank you Jim, that's perfect, appreciate it!

[Jim Coyne]

You are welcome

[Jonathan44]

Hi Jim,

nice article - it is now 3 years old but I think still valid. I also have another question: we have a requirement that we should change the color of the left border like you showed in the image above but depending on content of the note - like for approval history entries the color should be red if rejected or blue if approved. Now that is no single value but somewhere in the text. Based on that what I understand from you solution that this will be a fixed value and a dynamical change isn't possible here, right?

Cheers, Jonathan