>>Out of curiosity, did you use any particular conventions when choosing background colors? There are all kinds of possibilities, depending on your organization. Assigning color by job role, seniority, team, etc. but I didn't feel it was necessary or added value in our environment. So, I settled to simply make sure there was an equal distribution of colors and that no two users with the same initials shared the same color. To do that, I used Excel: - exported the active user list to .xlsx - used a formula to strip names down to their initials in a separate column - sorted the worksheet by the initials column - pasted a repeating ordered list of seven colors in a third column When initials repeat across multiple records, each of them will have a different color value so long as there are no more than seven users with the same initials. This also generated records for users with unique names not captured in ordinary initials. (like SMJ for Sally Mae Johnson, or DdM for David deMarco). I saved this file as a CSV and loaded it in Photoshop. Google "data driven graphics in Photoshop" to see how you can use CSVs to automate image production in Photoshop. I ended up with several hundred .JPGs with filenames matching user names. I would have loved to have uploaded the JPGs in a kickstart, but that doesn't seem possible, or it wasn't obvious how to do it. So, I spent a morning uploading JPGs to user profiles. To prepare for onboarding future new users, I repeated the above steps using all 676 combinations of initials on nine colors, so I will just pick from that batch as needed going forward. I also updated the color mix because I felt there weren't enough colors from which to choose, and some of the original shades were too similar. (You can see this in the screen capture, it actually looks better in our live environment with the new colors). While I hope the dev team eventually does this (it is not too challenging to code), I hope they don't do it *too* soon, so I can justify the time I spent setting it up 🙂
