Customising a task status
How to customise task status appearance
Overview
Alloy provides you with a predefined set of task status items, which are used within Alloy, to display the status of any task. You can create custom task statuses in addition to the standard system ones, see Creating Task Statuses. In addition you can customise the appearance of the statuses by changing the colour and icon for a status.
Changing the appearance of a status
To customise the colour and icons of task statuses use the following procedure:
- Use the search panel to find task statuses, this displays a list of available statuses.
- Select the status item that you want to customize to display the General tab in the Item details panel.
- Select the Settings tab from the tab bar.
- Select the edit icon . You can now edit the following fields displayed in the Settings tab.
- Icon - see Using Alloy icons
- Colour - see Selecting colours
- Collections - see Understanding collections.
- When you have completed the changes you required select the Save button.