Colour Settings

Learn how to colour your schedules in AroFlo Office

Updated on November 13th, 2024

Colour settings let you customise the colours used to differentiate between the various types of schedules within your calendar.

To access the colour settings for your calendar:

  1. Click Settings (three dots icon).
  2. Click the Colours sub-section.
 

 

'Colour Schedule By' options

Use this dropdown to choose the colour scheme of your schedule tiles.

  1. Select your preferred option from the Colour Schedule By dropdown list.
  2. Save.

You may need to refresh your browser for changes to take effect.

 
Option Description
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Choose this option to apply the colours set for Default Schedule Colours for all schedules.

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If you choose this option, the ‘Background’ colour you set for specific event types displays as a label.

Example

 
 
 
Tasks Each task schedule has its own unique colour.
Resources This uses the colours set up for each resource. See Resources.
Tasks / Resources Each task schedule will have a distinct colour, with the schedule border colour indicating the resource (the 'border' colour set up for each resource. See Resources.)
Project All task schedules within the same project will have the same colour.
Tasks / Projects Task schedules within the same project will have a shared background colour, with unique border colours for each task.

Task Type label colours

You can also customise the task type label colours (similar to the above Example images) in Task Type settings. To display these, ensure you have the ‘Task Type’ schedule label set up as a 'Header Label'.

 

 

Change schedule colours

You can customise the colours for task schedules, including background, border and text colour.

For timesheets, ad-hoc events and periodic or completed tasks you can change the background and text colours only.

 

To change your schedule colours:

  1. Click the (three dots) icon to access the calendar settings.
  2. Click the Colours sub-section.
  3. Make a selection from the Colour Schedule By dropdown list.
  4. Click into the field you want to change:
    1. To change the background colour, click Background
      b. To change the border colour, click Border (for Tasks only)
      c. To change the text colour, click Text.

      See an example

      In this image, the dark purple that forms the top and edges of the tile is the Border, the palest mauve is the Background, and the Text colour has been left as white. The yellow background to the 'Meeting: Timesheet' entry is AroFlo's default colour for timesheet entries.
       
       
  5. Using the colour picker, select a colour by:
    1. Clicking and dragging the arrow up or down the vertical colour bar to your preferred colour (see below)
    2. Clicking and dragging the small circle in the colour square to your preferred shade (see below).
  6. Click to the next square and repeat the steps above.
  7. Click off the colour picker to close it.
  8. Click Save.