Closed maxfarrior closed 3 years ago
shamoon
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3 years ago Colors are available in the -ng tags administration area, I think the goal is to eventually hide this Django admin area completely. And with respect to that there are some ideas / plans for changing color assignment, selection etc
maxfarrior
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3 years ago Colors are available in the -ng tags administration area
Forgive me, but you tell me where this is?
I'm currently looking at http://\
shamoon
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3 years ago If you click on "Tags" on the left sidebar, e.g. /tags
jonaswinkler
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3 years ago Hey!
The original Paperless showed the color in a small box next to the hex code.
I deliberately removed pretty much all custom html from the admin, for a couple reasons:
This is another proposal that's related to the first two. To make the color selection process easy, some websites have a small popup with a color wheel in it that can be used to graphically choose a color.
That's what I'll eventually do. It's just that this does not have a pretty high priority right now.
maxfarrior
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3 years ago @shamoon
Ahh, I see now. There are two places that the color of tags can be edited. The first is what you showed me, at http://\<server>/tags and the second is what I stumbled on at http://\<server>/admin/documents/tag/.
If http://\<server>/admin/documents/tag/ is the administration page for Django, then I agree that hiding that would be best. It's not as polished, and new users could get confused (like me) when there are two places to make the same change.
@jonaswinkler
I now understand that the /admin section is a part of Django, not the main application. That wasn't clear to me at first, and I now see that the actual application shows the colors of the tags, and that's what I should have been using to start with.
Also, good to hear that the color wheel idea was already on your mind.
I'll close this out, I see where I went wrong. Thank you for the help.
jonaswinkler
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3 years ago Also, good to hear that the color wheel idea was already on your mind.
The survey results also show that many users want this, so it will be there eventually.
I would like to propose that the color assigned to a tag be displayed on the tag editing page.
I am looking at the http://\<server>/admin/documents/tag/ page. In the "Color" column, I see the following
The issue is that I have no idea what those colors look like.
Yes, I could look up the colors, but that is extremely cumbersome. I'd have to look up every color on the list and make a decision by navigating through the x number of tabs that I've just opened.
The original Paperless showed the color in a small box next to the hex code.
That makes choosing the color very quick and easy. I would like to propose that this be added to Paperless-ng.
Related Proposal 1
This is closely related to the first proposal. It would be very nice to have a visual representation of each color in the dropdown menu.
In the Original Paperless, you could see each color by simply selecting it in the dropdown. You could scroll through each item to see all the options.
It would be even easier to pick a color if all of the colors are shown by just opening the dropdown menu. This avoids having to select each color to see what the choices are.
I cobbled something together to illustrate the idea.
Related Proposal 2
This is another proposal that's related to the first two. To make the color selection process easy, some websites have a small popup with a color wheel in it that can be used to graphically choose a color.
Adding such a feature would negate the need for a list of pre-defined colors. Just put a text field in the "color" tab, and when clicked, the pop up color wheel can be used to select a color, and the selected color's hex code will be inserted into the box.
I can't find an example right now, but if I see one, I'll edit. I think most people have at least seen this on other sites.
Happy to add more info if needed.