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Changing Colors for Employee Name Text on the Dispatch Board Gantt Chart (Open UI Client)

In the preconfigured application, the color of the text for an employee name designates the type of employee (for example, intern, contractor, and employee). For more information, see Viewing Employee Details in the Dispatch Board Gantt Chart (End User).

You can change the colors for employee names and the field that determines these colors. For more information about performing configuration tasks with Siebel Tools, see Using Siebel Tools.

To change the colors for employee name text on the Dispatch Board Gantt chart, complete the following procedures:

1. Create a New Color for the Employee Name Text
2. Add the New Color to the Field on the Business Component

This task is a step in Process of Configuring the Dispatch Board (Open UI Client).

Create a New Color for the Employee Name Text

Perform the following procedure to create a new color for the employee name text.

To create a new color for the employee name text

1. Navigate to the theme-gray.css file in the following directory:

   eappwebhome/public/lang/files

2. Open this file in the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) editor.
3. Search for the siebui-resourcecolor-a class.
4. Copy this class, and name the copy siebui-resourcecolor-d.
5. For the siebui-resourcecolor-d class, change the value of the color property to the hexadecimal value of the new color.

Add the New Color to the Field on the Business Component

Perform the following procedure to add the new color to the field on the business component.

To add the new color to the field on the business component

1. Log in to Siebel Tools as an administrator.
2. Lock the Employee project for editing.
3. In Object Explorer, navigate to Business Component, and query for the Employee business component.
4. Navigate to Business Component, then Field, and query for the Status field.
5. Change the Calculated Value field as necessary.

   For example, to designate the new color in the name text of employees that are available for scheduling, change the Calculated Value field as follows:

   IIf ( [Availability Status] = LookupValue("AVAILABILITY_STATUS", "Unavailable"),"resourcecolor-a", IIf ( [Availability Status] = LookupValue("AVAILABILITY_STATUS", "Fully Available"),"resourcecolor-b", "resourcecolor-d"))

6. Compile the Employee business component, and replace the Siebel Repository File (SRF).