# Auto coloring children when setting a color for a folder?

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211 "2022-01-12T10:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![deHaan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/dehaan/32/68_2.png) [@deHaan](https://qa.fmod.com/u/deHaan)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211/1 "2022-01-12T10:11:36Z")

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Is there a way to automatically color the children when you set the color of a folder?

I really like it in Wwise, where all children inherit the color of their parent folder, unless you have manually set a color for them. Would be cool to have something similar or better in FMOD 😁

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211/2 "2022-01-12T23:51:36Z")

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Currently, it’s possible to multi-select a folder and its children, then right-click on the multi-selection and select “Set Color” from the context menu. This sets the color of all items in the multi-selection. Does this work for your purposes?

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**Author:** ![deHaan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/dehaan/32/68_2.png) [@deHaan](https://qa.fmod.com/u/deHaan)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211/3 "2022-01-13T08:26:26Z")

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Hi Joeseph,

The issues with multi-selecting, is that I then need to open every child folder to be able to select them (is there actually a way to open/collapse all folders of a parent?)

To me it would be much nicer, if the children were automatically colored after the parent. So in this examples I would just have to select green for my ambience folder, and all children should be colored green. Unless I manually set them to another color, like I did with the Ambisonics folder.  
I would really love to see this across FMOD (also for asset, parameter, FXChain browser etc.)

![Screenshot 2022-01-13 at 09.24.00](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/b/bb47705f83e48896c0a9f87a36b9bbe740d17c36.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/auto-coloring-children-when-setting-a-color-for-a-folder/18211/4 "2022-01-13T23:59:18Z")

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Thanks for the clarification.

I’ll add your suggestion that we add an option to automatically color all children of a folder when coloring that folder to our feature/improvement tracker.