[thomasbeaudry]

Summary

Tables tinted some values and left others plain. Colored table values now go through ColorTagCell, and an admin chooses how they are drawn across the whole instance.

 /admin/settings, UI Preferences
   Group Switcher Position   [Sidebar Menu v]
+  Coloured Text In Tables   [Tags  ● Active  ● Archived v]
+                             Tags | Coloured text | Disabled

ColorTagCell                reads tableColorMode from setup state
  ColorTag(mode)
    tags   dot + plain label  (default)
    text   tinted label, no dot
    none   plain label, no dot  (shown as Disabled)

Table	Column	Change
/admin/users	Status	tinted text → tag
/admin/instruments, series	Status	tinted text → tag
/admin/users/$userId, permissions	Scope	amber text and globe icon → tag
Delete remote assignments	Status	colored icon → tag
/admin/instruments, forms	Kind	plain → tag
/admin/audit/logs	Action	plain → tag, one color per action
/admin/groups	Type	plain → tag
/datahub/subjects, datahub instruments, repo sync log	Sex, Kind, Status	already tags, now follow the setting

Also:

• SetupState.tableColorMode is a new optional Prisma enum field. An existing document reads as tags, so no migration is needed.
• Each tag color now has a fill and a text value. Pastel sex colors stay on dots, and light-mode text uses a darker pink and blue.
• The settings card is now w-full max-w-4xl, and "Preferences" is renamed "UI Preferences".
• The bulk wizard's send-status icons turn gray in none mode.

Left as is: the amber "No effect" chip in the permissions table, which is a warning rather than a table value.

Evidence

• Before: colors were hard-coded per column, and no setting could change them.
• After: the mode is saved through PATCH /v1/setup, and the table redraws in each mode.

Layer	Test
Unit	ColorTagCell.test.tsx, SelectTableColorMode.test.tsx, tag-colors.test.ts (4.5:1 text contrast on a card in both themes), settings.test.tsx, setup.service.test.ts, setup.test.ts, plus each table's own test
E2E	admin-settings.spec.ts (save each mode, read /admin/users), admin-instruments.spec.ts, admin-audit-logs.spec.ts, admin-management.spec.ts

Local runs:

• pnpm lint: 34/34, twice.
• pnpm test:coverage: 100%.
• pnpm test:e2e: 351 of 352 passed. record-file-deletion.spec.ts fails on a bare local stack with no S3 backend. This run predates the final merge from main, which CI covers.

The author reviewed the main table views in the browser. Dark-mode colors are covered only by the contrast test, not by an e2e test.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

The new field is optional and needs no migration. After a rollback the old code ignores the stored value, so no cleanup is needed, and upgrading again restores the saved choice. A later rename or removal of a stored mode value would need a data migration, because Prisma would likely fail reading the old value.

Blast Radius: cosmetic

The setting applies to every user on the instance. An open session keeps the old mode until it reloads, because setup state has staleTime: Infinity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5