[UI/UX] Views - Color - Automatically Pull from Field Values

[Sev]

As we find ourselves colouring entities in views with repetitive conditions for each group of values of a select or multiselect field, I was hoping for an option to just set the colouring condition to inherit from the field values.

This would allow the reuse of centralised colour definitions that already exist on field options, like this but with probably better wording than “match field value colours”:

Instead of the current equivalent of the above which requires redefinition of the same colours, one by one, which of course would not get updated if/when the field options get updated:

[nathan_jay]

One way may help as a work around is to create another formula field called “State Group” which maps to the State. In your example “new + triaged” = State Group of “Received”. Then use the State Group for colour coding and filter selection.

The formula is Text so its OK to do the colour coding but it’s not great for all things. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make the State Group a Single-Select so you can use it to group in Views e.g. Kanban column or List group. which would be awesome.