Ability to display alternate row colors within a gallery

[ZachyV]

One cool thing is include the ability to produce alternate colors on rows within a gallery to give more life to the UI. Just an idea

[KroonOfficeSol]

Nice Idea. Maybe easy to achieve by adding a rownummer property to the Template of a gallery. In this way you can also do three colors or four colors, etc.

[ZachyV]

Say odd numbers as grey and even numbers as light blue something like that.

[Anonymous]

Till the time use this idea.

1. Edit a gallery item row -> set the Gallery Template, Inserted Shape, or Any TextBox or Shape, to set the FILL or Colorwith: OR
2. use "TemplateFill" of gallerytemplate 

and add:

If(Mod(Value(ThisItem.ID),2)=0, Color!Aqua, Color!AliceBlue)

Courtsey: @hpkeong, @mr-dang, @Audrie-MSFT

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Useful-Features-of-PowerApps-13-Gallery-with-...

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/Provide-properties-in-Gallery-control-to-specify...

[Anonymous]

I did one after following the steps shared above:

used the TemplateFill property of the gallery control

If((DateDiff(Now(),ExpirationDate) <= 3) And (DateDiff(Now(), ExpirationDate) >= 0) ,Color.Pink, (DateDiff(Now(),ExpirationDate) > 3) And (DateDiff(Now(),ExpirationDate) < 20) , RGBA(255, 255, 204,1),(DateDiff(Now(),ExpirationDate) > 20), Color.PaleTurquoise, (DateDiff(Now(), ExpirationDate) < 0), RGBA(192,192,192,1))

[seraph787]

This would be a great feature to have.

The workaround that dhawalseth posted doesn't work when you have filtered the gallery because you're going to be missing some IDs, so instead of a nice list going 1,2,3,4,5,6 - you get something going 1,2,3,5,7.8 - which means you're not going to get alternate row colors.

[Anonymous]

Dear @seraph787,

I agree on the suggestion that RowId's don't work as we have to sort and filter. 

Just for a suggestion, I implemented it without "RowId's" i.e. based on "expiration date" in my case. Choose your case wisely.

Cheers, thank you for the feedback.

[Digital]

The following blog post details a clever way of getting sequential row numbers.

http://powerappsguide.com/blog/post/generating-row-numbers

This could be combined with the method above for alternate shaded rows.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. Useful thread.

Done it by using a sequential number in data and applied Mod function with 2 to determine odd/even and applied different Template fill property for odd and even by an if condition.

Thanks

[klelsz]

Galleries need an inherent Index property to represent rows, so that we do not have to modify Collections to include an Index.  Then the gallery can have properties per Index - like font or color etc.

[StevenZhang]

@klelsz provided a good idea. 

it has been two years, any actions or plan?