Idea: Set table cell background color via LotusScript
So, I was tasked with creating a table in a notification email approximating a dashboard view in an application I've been working on.
I'd not done much heavy manipulation of tables via LotusScript before, but after looking around the 'net for a bit, some things I found took me down the right road.
I was able to get the table built to the right size and dimensions. I could do the alternating row color thing. I could even get the text I'd be appending to the table to be color-coded programatically based on my field values. What I could NOT do for the life of me, was to set the background color of an individual table cell to a certain color programatically like I'd been able to do with the foreground text.
Unfortunately that was what I was trying to do, as the view I was trying to approximate was doing column background coloring to show the dashboard info.
The closest thing I could come up with was to use the following construct at each cell that I wanted to set as a certain color. Basically a bunch of "|" characters all smashed together for the entire length of the table cell.
Call rtitem.BeginInsert(rtnav)'
If C2=0 Then
richStyle.NotesColor = COLOR_RED
Elseif C2=1 Then
richStyle.NotesColor = COLOR_YELLOW
Elseif C2=2 Then
richStyle.NotesColor = COLOR_DARK_GREEN
End If
Call rtitem.AppendStyle(richStyle)
Call rtItem.AppendText("||||||||||||||||||||||||||||") '28 |s
Call rtitem.EndInsert
Resulting in something like this:
What I'd like to propose then, is an idea to incorporate setting an individual table cell's background color into LotusScript, similar to how the text color is set.
IdeaJam item - Set table cell background color via LotusScript