Default Global Color Schemes

This function is accessed through Maintenance / Advanced Customizations / Select Global Color Schemes.  Here you can select a custom color scheme to be used by default for Reservation coloring, Map indicator coloring, open sites on the Rack or the various Rack heading rows and columns.

While this isn't the normal place to set up Color Schemes, you can use the Edit Scheme buttons to edit any selected scheme or to create a new one (if no scheme is currently selected).

Note that the color scheme selected here for the Reservations override will be used on the Rack (for sites occupied by a reservation) as well as on the other tab views where the customer's name is shown.  It will also be used on the Map view if the "Use reservation color coding" option is selected there.  In other words, it's used anywhere that a reservation is typically shown in a color to indicate its status.  Any color scheme used for this should have "Reservations" selected as the Default scheme.  In addition, the Color Key function will include the colors from the scheme, and also allows editing the colors (or the entire scheme) directly from the Color Key dialog.

The Rack headings color scheme selections can be used to override the normal static heading colors on the Rack.  This can be used for instance to show the Site names or Types in different colors depending on their status, Park, or any attribute.  Any scheme for site headings or open sites will use the context function ThisSite available, which can be used in the expressions to get the appropriate site information.

You could use a color scheme on the date headings to highlight certain days of the week, holidays, or any special situation.  A special color scheme can also be used for any open sites on the Rack, for similar reasons or to indicate something about the site.  There is a special context function, This Date, which indicates the date of the cell or heading of interest in these schemes.  Here's a simple example of an expression which can be used in a Color Rule to change the color of the header for Saturday and Sunday:

 DoW(ThisDate()) = 7 OR DoW(ThisDate()) = 1

Note that the default color scheme selections are also global in that they affect all workstations.

Additional Topics:

Color Schemes

Expressions

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