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Set schedule colors

Choose the colour palette for the calendar, give each type of calendar item its own colour, and pin a colour to a particular technician, crew or truck.

Updated in release 0.0.1 Needs permission from your admin Open this page in Nova

In the sidebar, open Settings, then choose Schedule Policies under Scheduling. The page address is /settings/org/schedule. Scroll to the Schedule colors section under Organization schedule.

Before you start

  • Colours apply to the selected branch, like the rest of the page.
  • Your role needs the schedule settings permission, and your plan has to include schedule colours. If it does not, the section reads "Requires the schedule colors entitlement" and stays read-only.
  • Changes save on their own. The page footer reads Changes save automatically.

Steps

  1. Under Palette, click a swatch to change it. Nova hands these colours out in order to technicians, crews and other assignees that have no colour of their own, so keep them easy to tell apart.
  2. Press Add color to add a swatch, or Remove next to a swatch to drop it. Reset palette puts the standard palette back.
  3. Under Item types, set the colour for each kind of calendar item: Work order, Task, Project & milestone, Reservation, Activity, Rental, Block, Travel and Time off. Reset defaults restores the standard colours.
  4. Under Assignee overrides, use Add assignee override to search for a person, crew, capacity pool or bookable unit and give it a fixed colour. Everyone you do not list keeps their palette colour.
  5. Press Remove next to an override to drop it, or Clear overrides to drop them all.

What you see

  • Each colour has a swatch and a hex field, so you can type a colour code such as #2563eb.
  • The palette has a maximum size; when you reach it, Add color is disabled and the page says so.
  • Before you add any overrides the section reads "No overrides yet. Colors will be assigned from the palette."
  • Item colours show on the Schedule, the list and the map.

If something looks different

  • Swatches do not respond: your role can view but not change schedule settings.
  • A technician's colour changed after you added or removed a swatch: automatic colours follow palette order. Give that person an override to keep a colour fixed.

Open Schedule Policies

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