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Colour-coding options & states

Pin a colour to a dropdown option or a workflow state. It shows on records, in dashboards and on the mobile app; option colours also print in the PDF export.

Why colour

A red High, an amber Medium, a green Pass: colour makes a records list or a dashboard readable at a glance. Tebelis lets you choose the colour where it matters instead of leaving it to chance.

Option colours

For a single-choice or multi-select field, open the field in the builder and give each option a swatch from the palette, or leave it on Auto, which colours common words for you (red for "Fail" or "High", amber for "Medium", green for "Pass" or "Low") and leaves any other label uncoloured. The colour then shows wherever that value appears: on the record, in read-only views, on the mobile app, in dashboard charts grouped by that field, and in the PDF export. The palette has nine swatches, shared with workflow states, so a colour you pick sits well next to an automatic one.

Workflow state colours

States are coloured automatically by where they sit in the workflow. The first step is grey, steps in between are amber, and final steps are green, or red when the name reads like a rejection, a cancellation or a failure (such as Rejected). To choose a colour yourself, open the Flow & Rules tab in the builder and click the swatch next to a state under Step owners. A puts it back on automatic. The colour shows on every record's status, on the process map, on the mobile app and in status charts for that form. The first step (the draft) has no swatch: it always stays neutral.

Colours don't change behaviour

Colours are for display only. Recolouring a state or an option never changes how the record behaves, what the workflow allows, or how the AI reads your data.

Colours are saved with the form. On a published form you change them in a new version (Create new version), and they apply once you publish it, to records filed on that version. Records already filed keep the colours of the version they were started on.