Change the Background Color for Process Block in Rise

Woah, I've never noticed those at the far left and right of the screen. (Now I can't unsee them and they bug the heck out of me, so thanks for that! LOL) I assume that's what you are referring to. If I've never noticed them then the average learner won't either!

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It's crazy we can't edit this color. Please stop adding "new" features and take the time to resolve outstanding silliness like this. 

Yeah, this is rubbish! However, if you want to change the colour to combine it with another section, you could always change the colour of the extra sections to match the process block.

I think the HEX code for the process block colour is #f5f5f5

I have to be real here; not having control over this block color is causing work-arounds for organizations that are seriously unscalable. Is this going to be fixed soon? Where can I follow the roadmap?

Still a problem 2 years on...please let us edit the process block background colour. (And while you're at it, let us add images to the background please!!)

What kind of work arounds have you come up with?

It appears to be on the roadmap:

Articulate Staff posted this workaround, which really isn't feasible IMO. You have to export the project then search for each process block in the CSS, edit the color there, then rezip the project. If you make any updates to the course, you have to redo this hunt and find process. 
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/rise-360/change-the-background-colour-for-a-process-block#reply-853309

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Please add this function

+1 - please add this functionality!

This would be great to have!

Per others, a plus 1. How was it ever rolled out with this restriction considering no other blocks have it? I'd like to be able to use it more often too but can't due to branding.

It's been several years now Articulate people... how about some progress? This seems like such a simple value-add. 

https://community.articulate.com/users/Renz_Sevilla

Per others, a plus 1. How was it ever rolled out with this restriction considering no other blocks have it? I'd like to be able to use it more often too but can't due to branding.

It's been several years now Articulate people... how about some progress? This seems like such a simple value-add. 

As already mentioned, this is a different block than the others because it has an inherently responsive progress bar built into the background that no other block has. It would actually require functionality that allowed the user to change two colors--the background and the progress bar, and not just one. So I suspect that's why it is different than the others in terms of customizability.

Thanks for this (re-)explanation, Micah. I have an honest "I am not a coder" question. If this is what is really going on here, is it super difficult to add in two color change choices into the block settings? It seems there are other blocks with multiple settings we are able to apply. I'm imagining this is just either a couple XML or Java color changes that need to be applied.

Oh to be sure, I'm not a coder or programmer of any real sort. I think of these things in Rise in the aggregate: there's a finite amount of customization that can happen before the tool stops being inherently responsive. For every block or feature we can't customize, there's one that made it onto the list of those we can. It's annoying for sure, but it's just a fact that any inherently responsive no-code tool will come with these kinds of constraints. I was just talking with a colleague who was using Sway, and it's similar there (though its a far more limited tool of course): the user has next to no control over image size, and text placement. I even imagine that this will be a feature in the new Captivate; it will offer lots less customizability than Classic Captivate. Squarespace, Wordpress, Webflow--any inherently responsive no code tool puts constraints on what you can change or control. The trade off, of course, is that with the lack of customizability comes the invaluable feature of not having to design every module or page three times and then write the code to go along with it. 

Now: which features should have made the list and which shouldn't have? That's always gonna be a hot topic lol.

+1 on this functionality to change background color for process blocks.  Looks like there have been no additional comments or progress on this one for about a year.

+1 for me too 

This is bonkers.

+1..Can't use this function now as it'll create branding issues

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Clearly Articulate don't care about rise, there are so many basic lack of UI functions that have inconsistencies! Time to switch to change to Adobe Captivate.