# Vision Window with background color

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-window-with-background-color/78545>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, scripting, vision\
**Created:** [August 30, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-window-with-background-color/78545 "2023-08-30T05:17:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Surya\_Chandra\_Mohan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Surya\_Chandra\_Mohan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Surya_Chandra_Mohan)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-window-with-background-color/78545/1 "2023-08-30T05:17:19Z")

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Hello,  
I am trying to highlight sensors (background color) which has incomplete components in it.  
When a user is selected from the dropdown, the highlight should happen  
The window has a dropdown of all the usersnames and a template repeater with 10 instances of the sensors and I have added the script in property change event but it is not working

 ![2023-08-30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/4/a4e15489b04f4c74164b880b56edb2124e3ed11f.png)

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-window-with-background-color/78545/2 "2023-08-30T05:34:22Z")

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Your whole script needs to be nested in this way:

```auto
if event.propertyName == 'selectedStringValue':
	#Indent all of your code one indention and nest it here

```

Otherwise, any and all properties that change will fire this script causing it to run multiple times when the selections change and causing it to run unexpectantly when other properties change.

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-window-with-background-color/78545/3 "2023-08-30T06:29:08Z")

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Looking at your picture a little closer, my guess is that your script should be refactored to look more like this:

```auto
if event.propertyName == 'selectedStringValue':
	selected_user = event.newValue
	sensorRepeater = system.gui.getParentWindow(event).rootContainer.getComponent('Template Repeater')
	if selected_user == 'ALL INCOMPLETE COMPONENTS'
		#Primary Query Here
	else:
		#Alternate Query Here
	
	for sensor in sensorRepeater.loadedTemplates:
		#
		# Put All Evaluate hasIncompleteTasks bool logic Here
		#
		if hasIncompleteTasks:
			sensor.background = system.gui.color('red')
		else:
			sensor.background = system.gui.color('white')

```