Counting the different colors used on a board

@Yash Really? That is great news. My use case is probably unique with Miro. I have workers in the field who check utilities. I add .pdf maps to Miro boards and they use the pen tool with different colors to mark the status of what they checked…

When they are done, they have to count up the different colors and give me a total each color. If I could get rid of the counting step, it would help with speed and accuracy (and get rid of how annoying the counting is.)

I would love a solution in Miro for that!

That is a very easy API to create with javascript for example. The question is if you want to store these values on some sort of a server, locally on miro whiteboard or if you want to store in JSON files, or just in runtime data which gets wiped after session closes

Anybody up for tackling this?

All you need to do this is a bit of javascript like so:

gatherColors()

function gatherColors() {

      miro.onReady(() => {

                 miro.board.widgets.get().then(function(theWidgets) {

                      getColors(theWidgets)

                  })

             })

}

function getColors(arrayOfWidgets) {

      for (i = 0; i < arrayOfWidgets.length; i++) {

            let colorsOfWidgets.push(arrayOfWidgets[i].style.backgroundColor)

      }

}

At this point all board widget colors are gathered all you need after this is some sort of sorting and a output you prefer weather that is a JSON file which can be compatible with a google doc or just a board notification, etc…

You can either find some more efficient sorting algorithm online or use something basic like this:

function sortColors(colorsOfWidgets) {

      for(i = 0; i < colorsOfWidgets.length; i++) {

            if (colorOfWidgets[i] == “#12cdd4”) { //color code for cyan color

                  let cyanColor = cyanColor + 1 // same approach for all other colors miro widgets support

            }

      }

}

Hope this helps.

Sami

Keeping this idea in the air...Wondering if anyone else would benefit from it.

@Max Harper Hi! No, know one has taken the idea on...Thanks for responding! 
 

I think option A would be fantastic. That’s exactly what I was looking for! I would be using it with the highlighter function in the Miro drawing tool. Do you think that would work out?

Thanks again for making something happen on this! It will be a huge time saver for me and my team.

@Max Harper Do my ideas make sense? I can give some more detail or provide a screenshot of my use case, if that helps. I definitely appreciate you looking into this, and your photos above look really promising. 

@Max Harper That would be great, thanks!

My team is going to grow by a few more people pretty soon, so I would love to be able to use this feature.

@Max Harper That is awesome! Just watched the video. I would love to try that out. My team and I would use that multiple times a day and it could be a huge timesaver. I can imagine all kinds of other uses beyond my particular situation, also.

This is definitely fantastic. Can I send you my email so I can try it out?