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I want to make the colour of a label dependent on a config file. This way I can easily intervene to adjust the look&feel of the app.

In my config file, I define a certain colour in HEX (e.g. varColor = "#4E4E4E").

In the text label, I do the following:
ColorValue( LookUp(Config, Code=3, varColor) )

Nothing changes. If I put this in "text" (without ColorValue of course) then I get the correct value ("#4E4E4E4E") . If I put this in "Color" then nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this not possible?
Or how would you handle this?

Thanks for the feedback

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Bilakanti 1,226 on at

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@JohanPuttaert Color property only accepts color datatype(RGBA), as your value is of type text it's not reflecting. I doubt if there is any way to do it.
JohanPuttaert 12 on at

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thanks for your quick reply but I found a post here somewhere where it apparently works?
This is the topic : https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Using-a-Lookup-to-set-Color/td-p/1381956
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WarrenBelz 156,526 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @JohanPuttaert ,

Just did a test here - Collection same structure as your data

ClearCollect( config, Table( { Code: 3, varColor: "#4E4E4E" } ) )

then the Fill of a Button

and it works as expected

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JohanPuttaert 12 on at

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thanks for checking it out.
I had continued testing in the meantime and it works.