NUKnightLab / NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
Support era background colors in JSON?
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Enhancement
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
In Zendesk 2495 a user asked if era backgrounds could be controlled.
It seems like we could accept that in the config. I'm not sure how we would change the color number cycle if people had a mix of explicit and undefined background colors, but...
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Research direction
Start by tracing how the JSON config is read and how era backgrounds are rendered. Define how explicit and undefined background colors interact with the existing color cycle; the work is done when era background colors can be controlled through config without ambiguous fallback behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100