Forum OpenACS Development: Listbuilder and html

I'd like to set my own background colors in listbuilder.

You can do this by doing the following:

        title {
            label "Subject"
            display_template {
                <a href="@tasks.item_url@">@tasks.title@</a>
            }
            html {
                style "background-color: yellow;"
            }
        }

However, what I'd like to do is to make the background color be determined by the value of @tasks.status@ (or $tasks(status)  ).

The html section does seem to have limited access to Tcl variables. Or it tries to. If I put...

        title {
            label "Subject"
            display_template {
                <a href="@tasks.item_url@">@tasks.title@</a>
            }
            html {
                title @tasks.title@
                style "background-color: yellow;"
            }
        }

(obviously this is just a test), however, I get an error, saying $tasks(title) is not defined.

Any other ideas? I'd really like to be able to use color/shading as a UI element.

Also aside from setting class and subclass for the elements.
You can also try creating your own list template style.
Just copy the default listtemplate found in packages/acs-templating/resource/lists/
and edit it from there.

Another thing you can do is something similar to this:

display_template {
  <if @tasks.status@ odd>
                <a class ="odd" href="@tasks.item_url@">@tasks.title@</a>
  </if>
  <else>
                <a class ="even" href="@tasks.item_url@">@tasks.title@</a>
  </else>
}