I want to customize the color of every button color/icon in a table-based button. I want it to be more colorful and I don’t want to have the same color/icon for every single button. Maybe if you have multiple stages of a task (e.g. started, in progress, finished, checked) and to get to the next stag…

Hi Nikola, Have you tried to see whether you can use the formulas available on the button set up screen? [image] You might find a formula that lets you control the color. I do know that you can dynamically create the text that is displayed on the button. Regards Piet

Thanks! I found a way to change the color of the button with a seperate formula.

Hey @Nikola_Liebetrau , Can you share the solution with the community - I have found the button() formula, but I would prefer to use a solution within a ‘standard’ button. Thanks in advance, Greetings, Joost

With a “standard” button, you can “hardcode” the color of the label of the button using the hidden _Color() @joost_mineur :blush: … But for the background color of a button, I don’t think it’s doable without using Button() (sadly :pensive: )

Ah, thank you. I believe I had indeed seen it being used that way, it can help using it that way, but the most visible part of a button is indeed the background, which I would really like to be able to give it a new color with a function. Maybe someday…

I did it like this: [image.png]

@Nikola_Liebetrau Thank you for sharing. It is a nice solution, but there have been some warnings against using the button() function. For my most important docs I can’t risk that I might run into a problem if this function ends up unsupported some day. But I have to admit, it works nicely in your s…

thanks for the message! i hope that these parameters will be integrated into the standart button, that would make things mich easier.

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Nikola_Liebetrau November 8, 2021, 12:56pm 7

I did it like this:

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