Setting the backgrouind colour selectively

[SomersetGraham]

Hi
Is there a way to set the backgound colour of an element depending upon a given criteria?
What I would like to do is set the background colour depending upon the Phase of an element.
Is this possible?

Graham

[beginner]

You can check the phase with shape script and produce according output.

b.

[SomersetGraham]

Thanks
Does that mean I have to draw the whole element in the shapescript?
I want to mainain the rest of the appearance - I am thinking of the requirement element where the status is indicated by a coloured sidebar

Graham

[beginner]

For the status color: Options/Objects/Show Status... (left row, 4th from bottom)
Settings/General Types.../Status   and don't forget the Applies to...

b.

[SomersetGraham]

Ok
I am wanting this for the requirement element at the moment.
I kind of have something working
I created a new stereotype based on requirement
I added a shape script -

Code: [Select]

shape main
{
      if (HasProperty("Phase","1.0"))
      {
            setfillcolor(255,0,0);
      }
      drawnativeshape();
}
Now I have to add the created sterotype as a requirement type
This is OK but it means I lose the fact that the requirement was Functional/Non functional etc.
To get it to work properly I think I may need a profile
Graham

[SomersetGraham]

Yep,
Profiles did the trick