{"id":737,"date":"2018-07-09T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orgzit.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2020-05-31T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:07:37","slug":"color-coding-dropdown-fields-highlight-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgzit.com\/blog\/color-coding-dropdown-fields-highlight-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s add Color to Work – Color Coding for Dropdown String Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the best way to highlight or distinguish important information?\u00a0<\/strong>Did you say color highlighting? You are absolutely right!<\/span><\/p>\n

It is well known how color coded notes help one become a more efficient thinker<\/a>. The product team at Orgzit has recently released a new feature that allows Orgzit users to color code dropdown string fields. Dropdown fields are commonly used for recording important information such as type, status, or priority of the data. With color coded fields, you can visually distinguish and highlight the most important fields in a record.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at how color coding<\/strong> works in Orgzit. Firstly, check out the screenshot below that does not use any color coding.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, check the screenshot below that has color coding.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is the 2nd screenshot easier to read? Well, our customers at Orgzit certainly think so.<\/span><\/p>\n

With color coding, it’s become much easier to identify the actionable items. For eg. the above screenshot shows the highest priority tasks (Blocker) as color coded in Red. Tasks that are assigned but not yet started are (Assigned) are also coded as Red. This makes it really easy for us to focus our attention on the high priority tasks or those that are not progressing.\u00a0Colors serve the purpose visual tags and enables our right brain to quickly segregate the data in different bins. This allows us to quickly focus our attention on the more important information, thereby, increasing our efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a few examples where Orgzit customers use color coding:<\/p>\n