</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <div id="ProjectTitle"></div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText">Adding Background Colors for Groups</div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel">Collapse All</label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> </span> </div> <div class="BreadcrumbsContainer"><table><tr><td> <a href="WelcmPg.html">Welcome to LightSwitch Desktop Edition</a> > <a href="SchdlrOvrvw.html">Scheduler for LightSwitch Overview</a> > <a href="QukStrt.html">Scheduler for LightSwitch Quick Start</a> > <a href="TaskBsdHlp.html">Scheduler for Task-Based Help</a> > Adding Background Colors for Groups</td></tr></table></div> <div id="BodyContent"> <p>You can apply background colors to items from a data source when using the <a href="Grouping.html">Grouping</a> feature. For example, suppose you want to color code sales regions in your resources list. Simply use the Choice List to determine available colors.</p> <ol> <li>First, add a data source to the project as you did for the primary data source, only you must set three required properties instead of seven. They can be set as follows:<br> <img border="0" alt="" src="images/Images_Used/image138_76.png"></li> <li>For the <strong>Color</strong> property, you can specify the colors you would like to make available by adding them to the <strong>Choice List</strong>.<br> <ol type="a"> <li>Select the <strong>Color</strong> property in the table, and in the Visual Studio <strong>Properties</strong> window, click <strong>Choice List</strong>.<br> <br> <img border="0" alt="" src="images/Images_Used/image138_77.png"></li> <li>Enter <strong>Values</strong> and <strong>Display Names</strong> as in the following image, for example, or add your own:<br> <br> <img border="0" alt="" src="images/Images_Used/image138_78.png"></li> </ol> </li> <li>When you run the project and add a new item to the data source, you can specify a color.<br> <br> <img border="0" alt="" src="images/Images_Used/image138_79.png"><br> <br> The color will be used as the background color for the item when grouping.<br> <br> <img border="0" alt="" src="images/Images_Used/image138_80.png"></li> </ol> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright (c) <script type="text/javascript"> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script> $(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } }); </script></p> <a href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/" target="_blank">Product Support Forum</a> | <a href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/255782-winforms-documentation" target="_blank">Documentation Feedback</a> </div> </body> </html>