Workflow steps - color defining

Question

Hi,

I'm a greenhorn with Jira so my question might be silly for you.

I'm creating a workflow for my Epics.
Status of the Epic is to be presented on Confluence page.

I've found steps I'm interested in, but it seems that colors of the "bricks" are defined and locked.

As for my Confluence recipients colors are important - quick question - can I change those by myself for my project or those needs to be "programmed" ?

Thanks!

Grovnic · Answer

Hi nic,

Thanks for the answer.

As this is fixed in code - I cannot change it.

For the Confluence status macro - (?RAG Status) - I would be more than happy to use that if there would be a way to somehow link the background color with the "workflow status" imported from Jira.

In other words I need dependency.

I used RAG Status (and linked this from Jira to confluence) but in my version it is presented as a plain text, without background color.

And colors are important :/

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

"Bricks" is unclear, but there are two things you're looking at:

In Jira, status all belong to a category.  The three categories are to-do, in progress and done.  The colours of those have been changed lately to improve contrast and avoid colour-blindness problems (earlier versions were blue, yellow, green).  They are fixed in the code.

In Confluence, there is a status macro which puts a word on a highlighted background.  You can choose from a limited range of colours for it (all intended to be kept standard and a decent contrast)

To change these, you would need to hack the css of the systems.  You do have some access to that in Confluence, but I would strongly recommend not doing it, as every time I've seen someone mess with these, they've made them illegible.