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Forms - New Designer Themes - Change button colors?

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Updated August 20, 2024

asked on October 25, 2022

I was training on the new forms designer and we found that the options to change the Submit, Approve, and Reject action buttons seems to be missing, has this feature been removed?

Coloring the buttons is a huge benefit to prevent users from clicking the wrong action.

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replied on October 25, 2022

It sure looks like that functionality wasn't carried over into the new designer, and I personally have had zero luck getting any custom CSS to override what the theme does.

I'm not certain why I can't get it to override the theme, but I believe the way the new designer is applying the theme elements is completely replacing the CSS that I've added, because I can't find any sign of my custom CSS in the preview of the form.

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replied on October 25, 2022

Wow, all the buttons looking exactly the same is a really huge drawback, almost a no go for me. The only reason we were using the new designer was for one huge benefit, the ability to add new sections as tasks are assigned.

The little preview window, of previously submitted forms, in Cloud is so small that you have to scroll for ages to see anything and you can only see a few fields at once, so being able to just slap a section on the existing form and make previous sections read only is huge, but we are finding many other drawbacks to switching.

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replied on October 26, 2022

Yeah, I'm in prem, but I kind of feel similar. There are definitely things I like about the new designer, but so far every form I've published since upgrading to version 11 (about 9 months ago), needed functionality that the new designer was missing.

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replied on October 26, 2022

Just got a CSS fix on the VAR Webinar

//Action 1
.Submit {background-color:green;}
//Action 2
.Approve {background-color:blue;}
//Action 3
.Reject {background-color:red;}

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replied on October 26, 2022

I had tried those. They were not working (and are still not working) on the preview of the form in the new designer.

If it's working for you, I wonder if there is a version difference (I'm on 11.0.2201.20436).

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replied on February 28, 2023 • Show version history

This is one of the downgrades on the new process designer. We need to be able to set colours on buttons, and it would be nice not to require CSS, especially since this was in the old designer.

Ensure that when using custom buttons, you don't put spaces in, or the CSS won't work.

To make the following work, here is the CSS Snippet on the new forms designer for example:

//Action 1
.Submit {background-color:green;}
//Action 4
.Waiting {background-color:blue;}
//Action 5
.Peer {background-color:red;}

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replied on August 20, 2024

Does anyone know when are they gonna let Change button colors?

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