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You can use data-sourced color selection for any properties of the text box, barcode, line, and shape objects on your template that support color. This feature is useful when you want to change the color of an object dynamically.

Consider the following example:

Your company creates gym membership cards that are color-coded based on the membership type. If the member information, including the membership color, is stored in a connected database, you can configure a color stripe on the card to dynamically change to the correct color for each member.

To do this, you add a rectangle object to the template to be the stripe and then configure the border and fill colors of the stripe to use the color that is set by the corresponding "color" database field in the connected database. Then, when you print the document, the color that is printed matches the membership type of the club member.

Use the Data Sourced Color dialog to configure this feature. To access this dialog, open the Color Picker by clicking the Color option of the property that you want, and then click Set via data source on the Standard or Custom tab of the Color Picker.

Although the document can have only one connection to a database that contains color values, you can connect more than one object to that database, so that different objects can be printed in the same color.

To add a data-sourced color to a template object by using a Database Field data source

The following table lists the supported colors and their hex values.