Pre-Planning: Annotation Color Palettes

Pre-Planning: Annotation Color Palettes

Purpose

  1. 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

  1. In the permissions section of the Roles:

    1. Expand the Pre-Planning permissions.

    2. Depending on permissions desired, select Annotation Color - Create, Annotation Color - Update and/or Annotation Color - Delete.

      1. Annotation Color - Create - Allows the user to add to the color entry list.
      2. Annotation Color - Update - Allows the user to modify the coloring and label of already established color entries.
      3. Annotation Color - Delete - Allows the user to delete established color entries.

  1. To modify entries in the color palette:
    1. Choose the Pencil icon next to the color you wish to modify


    2. Modify the color with the sliders or input the hex code, label the color and select 


  1. To create a color palette for all preplanning in your account:
    1. Open up an Annotation in a pre plan.
      1. 1 - At the bottom of the color list, select Add.
      2. 2 - Using the color sliders or the Hex box, select the color you wish to use.
      3. 3 - Label the color or what you wish the color to represent on the preplan.
      4. 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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