Is it possible to add formatting to a custom journal entry in the activities (filtered) stream?

AllegedCanadian · ‎03-04-2024

Good day,

I have added a custom type of Journal entry to issue corrections in incident records. As an additional way to bring these corrections to the attention of our users, I would like to change the colour of the bar on the left side of the activity.

Currently field edits are given a gray bar, comments a black one and work notes a yellow one. Is there a way for me to change this one to red?

Sohail Khilji · ‎03-04-2024

Hi @AllegedCanadian

Intresting work ! Wish I could see a edit button to modify comments....

But, 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:

So to your custom journal entry you can create or update such properties to set the color codes..

I hope this helps...

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AllegedCanadian · ‎03-04-2024

This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

J Q H N · ‎05-06-2025

Hi there,

for anyone who is interested to also change the styling of the workspace; there is a limited number of attributes in the dictionary for field styles:

Workspace activity stream background
Workspace activity stream tile icon
Workspace activity stream icon color
See: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/csh?topicname=config-journal-field-icons-and-colors.html&version=lat...