Use conditional formatting in Text Mode

Last update: February 20, 2025

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The standard interface builder provides a great range of flexibility when creating reporting elements to meet the needs in your organization.

You can apply conditional formatting in a view by using the standard interface.
For more information about applying conditional formatting to a view, see Use conditional formatting in views.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following:

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license

New:

  • Standard

Current:

  • Plan
Access level configurations

Edit access to Filters, Views, Groupings

Edit access to Reports, Dashboards, Calendars to edit views in a report

Object permissions

Manage permissions to a report to edit views in a report

Manage permissions to a view to edit it

For information, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Conditional formatting in Text Mode

Text mode enables you to create more complex views, filters, groupings, and prompts by allowing you to use fields that are not available in the standard interface.

For a complete list of all our reportable fields, see the API Explorer.

For more information about using text mode syntax, see Text mode syntax overview.

You can also use text mode to format views in reports and lists. Using conditional formatting, you can change the views of your reports by changing the font type and background of the results in the report, as well as icons and flags. We recommend that you always build your views using the standard interface first and switch to the text mode interface only when absolutely necessary.

NOTE
Using CSS styling to customize conditional formatting is not supported. Instead, you must use the predesigned formatting options that are available in Adobe Workfront.

Add conditional formatting to Views

For more information about applying conditional formatting to a view in the standard builder interface, see Use conditional formatting in views.

To add conditional formatting to a view in the text mode interface:

  1. Go to a list of objects.
  2. Expand the drop-down menu of a view to which you want to add conditional formatting.
  3. Click Customize View.
  4. Click the column in the view to which you want to apply conditional formatting.
  5. Click Switch to Text Mode.
  6. In the Show in this column: area, click Click to edit text.
  7. Add the code samples provided in Format Views using Text Mode at the bottom of the text in the column you selected.
  8. Click Save, then click Save View.

Format Views using Text Mode

You can add the following components to a column in a view to conditionally format it in text mode:

Column settings

You must be familiar with the text mode interface before you can add conditional formatting to your views.

You can customize the following elements of a column when using conditional formatting in a view:

Column headers

To change the displayed column header, add the following code to your column: displayname= [Name of column]. For example, to name a column Project Owner, the text code would look like:

displayname=Project Owner

Format dates

Dates can be configured to display in various formats.

For more information, see Format dates in text mode reports.

Format numbers

You can format numeric values to display information that best suits your reporting needs.

For more information, see Format numbers, currency and percentage values in text mode reports.

Column rules

Column rules allow for the addition of images, color, formatting, and text overrides within a view. Column rules can be established independently or can contain multiple conditions for a column.