Changing the colour of the link in server job

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Changing the colour of the link in server job

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Today I have got a news that, we can customise the colour of the links.
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By default , green means success and red means aborted.
But I don't agree with that. I feel it should be universal.
She told that it can be done in a server job.
Is it really possible to customise that,?
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Yes we can change the color of the links (attached, unattached), job running status not only in server but in parallel jobs too.
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How we can?
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Yes. I am able to chang the colour under tools-options-appearance.
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Open datastage designer client --> Tools --> Options.

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Yes, it is..
But the default colors looks better than the new one..
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Yes.adopting the default is the best practice
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Re: Changing the colour of the link in server job

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pandeesh wrote:By default , green means success and red means aborted. But I don't agree with that. I feel it should be universal.
Out of curiousity, what would "universal" colors be for success and aborted for you? To me, that would be... green and red. :?
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Yes.For me also the same.. :D
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And yet you said "but I don't agree with that". Color me... confused.
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I don't agree with the option of customising the colors.
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Post by ray.wurlod »

This is singularly useful when the developer is red-green colour blind. I had such a client once, and changed the good/bad colours to yellow and purple, which he could see and differentiate.
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