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Password colours/colors to show their meaning

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Password colours serve limited purpose as users must remember what a colour means.

The latest updates moved colour into the "edit mode" which is great and places the colour prominently beside the password title.

I created with CSS a method to switch the circles out for rounded rectangles and text for (my example only):

  • Need Update

  • Shared

  • Normal

  • Insecure

  • Validate

An option to customise these so they have a clear purpose would be great to encourage their use. Note: I only see extra noise if they are added to the list view for passwords, not benefit.

Similar to but separate from global tags for passwords.

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  • Yellow Coaster

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    Oct 24, 2024

    Some other users have requested being able to flag passwords (https://hudu.canny.io/feature-requests/p/flag-passwords), 3 of your examples could be flagged due to the need to have them resolved as issues:

    Need Update

    Insecure

    Validate

    but as for Shared & Normal, being able to allocate some information to the colours in the back end which are just hover-over tooltips would be really useful.

    Needs update has been covered here too (https://hudu.canny.io/feature-requests/p/aging-passwords-report)

    Alternatively the Tags section could have "Shared Password" etc. in them?

    • Black Quasar

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      Oct 28, 2024

      Oliver I do also tag them "Shared Password" etc but the purpose of this is visual indication - the tags are not suitable for this by default. I found the below option would get out of hand compared to a limited set of colours.

      I personally don't want them to be flagged, because nobody else would be going through that list, but it's valid.

      The method changed after a recent update, but you can use the below to colour tags if you want:

      .chip a[href$="?tag=Client+Shared"] { background-color: palevioletred; }