How can I change the background color of the last column in my grid?

Hi Roberta

I assume you mean the value in the column and not the background colour of the column itself? And I assume your grid is a read-only, not and editable grid?

You can use a Rich Text display field to achieve this, something like as follows:

{
  a!gridField(
    label: "Read-only Grid",
    labelPosition: "ABOVE",
    data: {
      {value: 1, label: "A"}
    },
    columns: {
      a!gridColumn(
        label:"Column1",
        value: fv!row.label
      ),
      a!gridColumn(
        label: "Last Column",
        value: a!richTextDisplayField(
          value: a!richTextItem(
            text: fv!row.value,
            color: "ACCENT"
          )
        )
      )
    },
    validations: {}
  )
}

Hi Sewart,

It is actually the background color. Something like the following that I did with the cardLayout:

Thanks,

Roberta

Doh! You actually said that in the title, I missed it! AFAIK you can't. Why do you need it to be a different background colour? (I'm curious, just wondering if there's some other option to satisfy the desired outcome)

We want to make it the column where there are some action icons for the user to choose, exactly as I posted above. It looks confusing to the end user as there are other icons in the row as well.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Roberta

My immediate thoughts:

• given the column the label "Next Action(s)"
• train the users that Actions for the row are always in the last column
• don't re-use any of the Action icons in any other column for any other reason (it's worth ensuring that your UX team provide you with the relevant organisational cultural iconography if Appian's UX recommendations don't meet your needs)
• put hover-over labels on your Action icons so it's clear what the User is about what the Action actually does 

Ok, thanks, Stewart.

So, no background color for me.

Roberta

Not that I am aware of I'm afraid...I'm sure the Community will pounce if I've missed something! 

Reflecting on it...you could create your own images of icons (and thus be in total control of their background colour) and add links to those images to execute the functionality you want to implement...it's not ideal but once you've created a library of them you could use them again and again...

Also keep in mind that Appian supports Unicode Emoji, so you actually have access to all the full color pictures supported by a given browser / operating system at your disposal.  All through the char() function.  You have to go through the extra step of converting from the code point value which is usually presented as HEX to decimal for the char() function, and emojis display differently on different operating systems.  But, they are a universal set of icons that display SIMILARLY across all platforms.  Something to look into if you can't get what you need from the Appian set of icons.  They have the disadvantage/advantage of being monocolor and are more limited, but the distinct advantage of always displaying the same across all platforms.  There are some icons you get in the Appian provided set that aren't in the Unicode standard. 

But what is in the Unicode standard:

(This forum actually uses only a fairly limited subset of Unicode.  There's WAY more in Unicode!  You have access to all of these and more in char() function.)

  Just curious to know if this unicode emojis are supported in other devices or not and I completely understand the way it appears depends on the browser and operating system. Have you found any other limitations by using this?

  Just curious to know if this unicode emojis are supported in other devices or not and I completely understand the way it appears depends on the browser and operating system. Have you found any other limitations by using this?

If your OS isn't on the most current version, the very newest of the Emojis won't be available to you.  Some are rendered as full color pictures, others as text glyphs.  You can also concat char(65038) onto the end of a single emoji to force OS to render it as a monocolor glyph, which will usually look completely different.  But that allows you to set the color to whatever you want.  In both regards, Appian just treats it like a letter, and you can use emojis in almost all interface components.

For your use, if you went with emoji you'd make that the text of a Rich Text, and you'd attach links to it, most likely dynamicLink, to achieve the functionality you want when the user clicks on it.  If it's agreeable to your purposes, you can also put the icon / emoji onto a button that goes in the grid cell.

Go to Emojipedia.org for a list of all of them, and what they look like on all major platforms and social media networks.