Colors

Apply colors dynamically on elements with the bindColor marker.

The bindColor marker is supported on:

• text and background colors

• table cells background

• shapes backgrounds and lines colors for DOCX files only

Shapes background and lines colors in DOCX

• write the bindColor marker in the document body, not in the alternative text of shapes

• the replaced color format must be solely RGB

A bindColor marker replaces a color reference on the template with a new color coming from your JSON dataset in Ninox.

Prototype and arguments details

{bindColor(myColorToBind, myFormat) = myVar}

myColorToBind

• a temporary hexadecimal color applied to a text, background or a cell background

• used to identify the color to replace

• the hexadecimal is case insensitive and the hashtag at the beginning is optional

In Microsoft Word, only a color name can be used to replace the background color of a text. Learn more about the Microsoft Word exception.

myFormat

• the new color format expected from the marker myVar

• available Color formats

myVar

The marker that corresponds to the new color.