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change text colour on Button in Gallery using If

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Posted on by Englishweb 371

Hello

I'm trying to figure out the syntax to change a button text colour in a gallery item in the color properties using:

If(ThisItem),(DatePickerS1End.SelectedDate <=Today(),Red,Green)

The text property is ThisItem.Student1

I don't know how/where to reference ThisItem

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

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  • Jcook Profile Picture
    Jcook 7,783 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hello @Englishweb , 

    Let me understand this a bit more, so you wan to have al the buttons in your gallery text red if the date that is selected in the date picker is Today, or some date in the past. But if the Date is tomorrow or farther than text is green?

     

    Here is what I came up with:

     

    PicMain.png

     

    The Syntax I am using on the button Color = If(DatePicker2.SelectedDate <= Today(), Red,Green)

     

    You do not need to use ThisItem to make this work.

     

    Hope this helped!

     

    --Josh

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    Englishweb 371 on at

    Hello @Jcook That's exactly what I was aiming for, unfortunately, all the buttons on the Parent Gallery turn red! The date picker is on the child gallery (where the same syntax works perfectly). Its the parent gallery button text colour which is the problem.

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    Jcook 7,783 Most Valuable Professional on at
    What are the relationship between the 2 galleries. Could you share some more info or pictures?
  • Englishweb Profile Picture
    Englishweb 371 on at

    hello @Jcook The parent gallery ireferences the datasource and the child gallery is ParentGallery.Selected

    Does this help?

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    Englishweb 371 on at

    There are other buttons on the Parent gallery which are working as expected:If(Value(S1Hrs)>=10,Red,White)

    I'm trying to get each button text to change colour , using the item

     = If(DatePicker1.SelectedDate (Student1)<= Today(), Red,Green)

    At the moment each button changes to the same colour, according to the gallery row selected

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