DOORS 9.4 Attribute background color

DOORS 9.4 is supposed to allow setting of an attributes background color but I cannot find any instructions on how to do this. The option is not in "Edit attributes" and I received an error when I attempted to access th help file. Does anyone have the instructions?
lahines - Tue Jul 24 10:35:37 EDT 2012

Re: DOORS 9.4 Attribute background color
llandale - Tue Jul 24 11:53:07 EDT 2012

You assign color to enumerations. You adjust the properties of some column to change it's color based on the object's value of an enumerated attr that has color defined. Save the view. So you can display Text as Red if its "Risk" is "Critical", presuming Critical is defined with Red.

-Louie

Re: DOORS 9.4 Attribute background color
lahines - Tue Jul 24 15:04:29 EDT 2012

llandale - Tue Jul 24 11:53:07 EDT 2012
You assign color to enumerations. You adjust the properties of some column to change it's color based on the object's value of an enumerated attr that has color defined. Save the view. So you can display Text as Red if its "Risk" is "Critical", presuming Critical is defined with Red.

-Louie

I don't believe this feature has been fully developed since sometimes color text/background cannot be set. I have noted that the option to select color text and/or color background is presented when the column is inserted. If you select both text and background, you see only color, no text. Thank you for the the input, DOORS 9.4 help is hard to find.

Re: DOORS 9.4 Attribute background color
ChrisHardy68 - Mon Nov 05 22:25:00 EST 2012

In DOORS 9.4, if you want to set the background color of a column using dxl the syntax is:
void backgroundColor (Column col, string attrName)

This doesn't seem to be documented, but i figured it out via trial and error

Re: DOORS 9.4 Attribute background color
DOORSWizard - Thu Feb 04 14:33:49 EST 2016

ChrisHardy68 - Mon Nov 05 22:25:00 EST 2012
In DOORS 9.4, if you want to set the background color of a column using dxl the syntax is:
void backgroundColor (Column col, string attrName)

This doesn't seem to be documented, but i figured it out via trial and error

Chris to the rescue...I spent a good 15 minutes searching the DXL manual to no avail. Should have looked on this forum sooner. The command works like a charm, for those interested the inverse is backgroundColor(srcCol) to get at the name of the attribute that is being used on an existing column for background color. The function above is to set it.