Appearance: the colour theme

Overview

The system has six colour themes. They can be chosen at three levels: your user, the warehouse and the whole system. A theme only changes the colours of buttons, bars and highlights; it does not change data, permissions or printed documents.

Before you start

• Your theme: anyone can choose it.
• Warehouse theme: the appearance permission (it shows in the permission list as appearance). By default admin and super admin.
• System theme: super admin only.

The three levels and which wins

1. Your personal theme, if you chose one.
2. Otherwise the active warehouse’s, if it has one.
3. Otherwise the system’s.
4. Otherwise the Cargoflow blue.

The sign-in screen, before you are signed in, always uses the system theme.

Your personal theme

1. Click your name in the top bar.
2. Under My appearance choose a theme, or Inherit to use the warehouse’s or the system’s.
3. The change applies immediately and follows you on any computer.

The warehouse theme

1. Check the active warehouse in the top bar.
2. Under Admin › Configuration open Warehouse appearance.
3. Click apply on the theme you want, or choose to inherit from the system. The theme in use is marked as such.

Everyone in that warehouse without a personal theme sees it.

The system theme

Under Admin › Appearance (Tenant group), the super admin chooses the theme for every warehouse that has none of its own and for the sign-in screen. This screen currently follows the system’s default language.

The themes

There are six: Cargo Flow Blue (the default), Midnight Navy, Carbon, Indigo, Emerald and Orange. Each shows two colour swatches as a preview.

Example: telling two warehouses apart

Ana López works in the Principal and North warehouses and sometimes captures in the wrong one. The admin sets Emerald on North and leaves Principal on the system theme. Ana leaves her personal theme on Inherit. Now, when she switches to North with the top-bar selector, the whole screen turns green and it is obvious which warehouse she is in. See Change language and warehouse.

Known limitations

• Cargo Flow Blue, Midnight Navy and Carbon show the same swatches, so the preview cannot tell them apart: apply them to see them.
• On the warehouse screen, the "currently in use" line may show your personal theme instead of the warehouse’s. Set yours to Inherit to see the warehouse’s.
• The Warehouse appearance tile description mentions a personal theme, but it changes the warehouse’s.

FAQ

Can I add my company logo?

Not from this screen. Logos on printed documents are set in the templates; see Design a template.

Is there a dark mode?

Carbon is the darkest of the six, but there is no full dark mode.