Informix Error -2044: At most one color attribute may be specified for each field with each condition.

Reasons / Common Causes

-2044 fires when an ATTRIBUTES statement specifies more than one COLOR attribute for the same field under the same condition — per the official guidance, only one COLOR value is allowed per field/condition combination.

1. Two COLOR attributes specified for the same field under identical conditions, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause, often from a punctuation slip merging two attribute clauses.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Review the statement for a COLOR attribute problem, per the official guidance, and check for missing punctuation that might have caused a duplicate specification.

Examples

Two COLOR attributes on the same field

ATTRIBUTES
  status = order_status, COLOR = "red" COLOR = "blue";
-- -2044: two COLOR attributes for the same field/condition

Corrected

ATTRIBUTES
  status = order_status, COLOR = "red";

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check each field's ATTRIBUTES clause for more than one COLOR specification under the same condition, and check nearby punctuation for a missing separator.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -2021 — "An illegal color has been specified." A related COLOR-attribute error, about an invalid color name rather than a duplicate specification.

A field has more than one COLOR attribute under the same condition — check for missing punctuation and remove the duplicate.