How to control default entity color

Reading previous post, I've found out that the following 2 files needs to be below the default directory: des-col.pmldat & des-element-rules.pmldat. I've edited them to include the desired rules and colors. I've modified my evars file to point to that default directory. It still is not working... How can I troubleshoot? How can I check if the 2 files gets loaded correctly...?

on which path you are placing these files?

PDMS takes the color rules preference like this 

1) PDMS user

2) Project

3) Installation folder (PDMSUI)

so firstly, it will check user folder if there are these two files then these will be used for color rule. if you are placing required files in project path then you have to delete the files from PDMS user folder then system will 1st look into user folder there will be no files so it will go and check project folder your required files will be there, and it will use correct files. Thats how it works. 

Hope this will resolve your issue.

you can check in your design which color rule path it is currently taking. like in picture mine is project folder.

Thanks Muqaddas, So I can see that the rules gets properly loaded (I can see them in the Auto Color Rules Windows). If the color is not working, could it be because the rules needs to be in the top of the list? Is it applied from bottom-up or top-down?

Ok, I got it to work, thanks to you Muqaddas, it seems the file get loaded from bottom-up... Thanks again for all the details!

You are welcome