Define color
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.. index:: Define color, color in the project

You can define the bar color for the activities and subprojects at your convenience.

To define the color depending on resources:

1.  Activate the **Color** in the project properties window.

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2.  If you click the right mouse button on the table area, you can define which columns appear in the table.

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3.  The column **Type** indicates whether there is a role, team, employee, or machine.
4.  The column **Name** includes resources that are planned in the project/portfolio.
5.  After clicking the left mouse button on the preferred row of column **Color** 
    and pressing the button with three dots, you can set color for activities, where the resource, 
    such as Project management, is planned.
	
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6.  If, for example, two different colours of an activity are associated with defined resources,
    the activity is represented by the resource color, which is on a higher position in the list.
7.  **Restore** - delete all of the dependency rules.
8.  **Set automatically** -distribute resources colors automatically.
9.  **Up** – increase the resource priority in the color allocation.
10. **Down** – reduce the resource priority of  in the color allocation.
11. Click on the button **OK**.

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.. |image2| image:: ../images/project_property_color_2.png
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