Customize Global Colors

About this task

The Colours function enables you to select foreground and background colors to visually define various map components. Customized colors apply to all maps. The use of color is optional.

Note: You may find it helpful to set active items to one color, inactive items to another color, and active, linked items to a third color to differentiate among them.

To customize colors for all maps:

Procedure

  1. From the Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor Options menu, select Preferences.
  2. Click Colours.
  3. From the Item list, select the type of map component.
  4. From the Attributes list, select the attributes of the map component you selected.
  5. Select the foreground and background colors for the item.
  6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 for each item you want to customize.
  7. When you are finished customizing the colors for all items, click OK to save changes.