Pre-Planning: Administrators guide to annotation color palettes
Pre-Planning: Administrators guide to annotation color palettes
Purpose
To explain how to create and update a color palette within Annotations.
BEST PRACTICE: Standardization of coloring across a departments preplans makes the information much easier for personnel to quickly reference the information that they need to make timely decisions on an incident.
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Process for administrators
In the permissions section of the Roles:
Expand the Pre-Planning permissions.
Depending on permissions desired, select Annotation Color - Create, Annotation Color - Update and/or Annotation Color - Delete.
Annotation Color - Create - Allows the user to add to the color entry list.
Annotation Color - Update - Allows the user to modify the coloring and label of already established color entries.
Annotation Color - Delete - Allows the user to delete established color entries.
To modify entries in the color palette:
Choose the Pencil icon next to the color you wish to modify
Modify the color with the sliders or input the hex code, label the color and select
To create a color palette for all preplanning in your account:
Open up an Annotation in a pre plan.
1 - At the bottom of the color list, select Add.
2 - Using the color sliders or the Hex box, select the color you wish to use.
3 - Label the color or what you wish the color to represent on the preplan.
4 - Select Save.
BEST PRACTICE: By adding labels to the color palette like "Text", "Text Shadow", "Supply line", "Sprinkler Zone", etc, the administrator can ensure that the pre-plans are more uniform, standardized and easier to read.
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