With the help of the rows-format tool you can set colored markings at the beginning of lines. The color marking of rows serves the quick identification of certain data sets. This is not to be confused with coloring cells , which allows you to highlight individual cells.

In the view options above a table you will find the following icon:

Color Marking Tool

After clicking on the rows-format tool, you can choose between three options for color highlighting:

  • Use single selection column
  • Use rules
  • Highlight duplicates

Color marking of cells

For the Use single selection column option, you need a column of this type in your table. This allows you to mark each row at the beginning of the line with the color of the respective option that is entered in this column.

Color marking of cells

The Use rules option allows you to set conditions for color highlighting.

  • Click on the colored triangle symbolto change the color of the marker.
    Color marking of cells
  • Specify to which of your Columns the condition should refer to.
    Color marking of cells
  • Decide for the Condition type.
    Color marking of cells

In this example, all rows in an editorial plan that are marked as completed in the checkbox column are to be marked. To do this, the “Published” column was selected, the condition “is” was used and it was specified that the rows with a checkmark should be marked.

Color marking of rows

In this example, we only want to highlight rows the editorial plan in color if the status of the post is not “finished”, the publication date is in the future and an image already exists.

Rule with several conditions for the colored line marking

rows with one or more identical column values can be highlighted using the Highlight Duplicates option. To do this, select the column you want to check for duplicates. This way you can easily identify duplicates in your table and correct or delete them if necessary.

Highlight duplicate cells in color