Colors for customers / projects

[npostnik]

It would be great if customers/projects had a color field, the color can be used in time entries view. Then you can see, on which projects/customers you worked. Project color should inherit the customer color if not defined.

[kevinpapst]

Hi @npostnik, really like the idea!

Question: I added the option to display customer and project columns next to the already existing activity columns for the timesheet view:

All of the columns can be hidden by the user, as there is not enough room on all devices:

Currently anything that is visible is blue, hidden stuff is orange (e.g. projects are hidden if they are directly set to hidden or indirectly through a hidden customer).

Do you have some input how this could be implemented?

Right now I would say:

• use the customer color for the customer label
• use the project color for the project label

But:

• what about the activity? should it inherit any color?
• what do we do about the hidden state?
• should the colors be applied in the admin datatables (customer. project, activity) as well?
• should the hidden state of the parent be displayed?

The simplest solution if often the best one, but I am especially unsure about the admin datatables and like to get some feedback before starting to work on this one.

Edit: ping to @jmucks and @adis1987

[maaikez]

First of all: We are very happy about Kimai v2 and very enthousiastic about the new design!

It would be very nice to have configurable colors per activity. Or per customer.
It would be great if a color is automatically chosen when creating a customer (or activity), another color than used already.
I would really like to see the colors in the calendar view as well!
The hidden state can have less opacity for example.
Maybe it is an idea that the activity automatically inherits the color of the corresponding customer, unless you override this in the settings.

When you have not so many customers and projects, showing the colors and the admin datatables would be ok. But it is a real color party when you have lots of customers, projects and activities. For my purpose, it would be nice to see the colors in the admin view (so you don't have to click somewhere to see the color). Maybe you can make it a setting. Or you add a colored 'dot' to each customer, so you don't have this color for the whole label, but only a dot in front of the customer's name (or activity or project).

[kevinpapst]

@maaikez thanks for your feedback and for your PP donation 👍 I'll see what I can do

[kevinpapst]

Currently working on this one, as the label cause more trouble than I anticipated in the beginning.
Please give me a quick vote which one you prefer:
Small dots

Larger dots

Block

I tend to use the small dots, but let me know what you think please.

[kevinpapst]

BTW: invisible items will simply get less opacity, as suggested. I'd say that the information whether something is invisible is not important in the timesheet.

[maaikez]

Great you are working on this! I prefer the blocks. Are you also adding the colors to the calendar view?

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On May 2, 2019 5:21:57 PM GMT+02:00, Kevin Papst ***@***.***> wrote: Currently working on this one, as the label cause more trouble than I anticipated in the beginning. Please give me a quick vote which one you prefer: **Small dots** <img width="1151" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2019-05-02 um 17 21 03" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/533162/57086588-b410be80-6cfe-11e9-88b1-d77ec2186441.png"> **Larger dots** <img width="1175" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2019-05-02 um 17 17 13" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/533162/57086441-67c57e80-6cfe-11e9-896a-faeb67f3fc1b.png"> **Block** <img width="1182" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2019-05-02 um 17 18 15" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/533162/57086442-67c57e80-6cfe-11e9-9bb9-0ed0c9368ffa.png"> I tend to use the small dots, but let me know what you think please.

[kevinpapst]

I tried it: if the color area gets larger the colors become a quite disturbing "color party" (as you said earlier). So I will stick with the dot for now.

The calendar will be supported. But there is a small problem: I have to choose a fixed font color. Currently its white: but then you can't use light colors, as they become the background and the font becomes unreadable...

[kevinpapst]

You could test the PR if you want.

[infeeeee]

Thank you for this, it makes 'My times' much more readable.

But I think the colors should show up on the last activities dropdown as well. The best would be with a colored dot just like on 'my times', but inline. It would make the dropdown consistent with my times, and easier to use.

Should I open a new issue for this?

[kevinpapst]

@infeeeee yes, please a new issue. And if possible, include some kind of mockup, because I am not sure if I completely understood how the final outcome should look like.

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