Change Text Color

[kdmp]

I am trying to find a way to change the test color of the contents in Description in the account details. I tried all that I could think of in regards to CSS (probably overlooked the easiest solution) and have tried searching for the template file that displays it.

Do I have to do a custom module or can I not make a change to this?

I tried following this:

https://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62133

I opened custom/modules/Accounts/metadata/detailviewdefs.php and added customCode to description.

'description' =>
array(
'name' => 'description',
'comment' => 'Full text of the note',
'label' => 'LBL_DESCRIPTION',
'customCode' => '<font color="red">{$fields.description.value}</font>',
),

[robertbmirth]

mmm... the previous example should work; however, if you're not in developer mode, your metadata cache may not have been cleared and as such your previous metadata may still be used. I literally copy/pasted your code into my metadata file and it works for me (running 6.1.2).

If that still doesn't work, you can work up a little hack into the smarty templates (would require you to copy/modify your view.detail.php and DetailView.tpl files; I couldn't help you with it directly as I've only done it for list view and not detail view). I wouldn't suggest doing it this way though; it shouldn't be needed for detail view (as opposed to list view) and its a lot of work for such a simple thing.