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How do I change the color of inactive fields in Informatica's edit windows?


In Informatica Designer and Workflow Manager, when the user opens a transformation/session for edit without having it checked out, all the fields are displayed in a really low contrast shade of grey against the white background.

Has anyone found a way to change the color?


Solution

  • UPDATED The original worked somewhat, the real fix is this:

    1. Right click on desktop background - select properties. This is the windows desktop background, nothing to do with infomatica!

    2. Select Appearance tab

    3. Under "Windows and Buttons" select "Windows Classic Style"


    Original Answer:

    The problems seems to be that windows based themes are used for the background and white (with no way to change it) is used for the font color.

    Here is how I fixed it on windows XP:

    1. Right click on desktop background - select properties. This is the windows desktop background, nothing to do with infomatica!

    2. Select Appearance tab

    3. Select Advanced button

    4. Select the Active window (below "Item:" it will now say "Window")

    5. Below "Color 1" select some other color than white.

    NOTE: This means the default background color for ALL programs will now be white.

    C'est la vie