How to add color frames around components that belong to a unique board?

Good evening,
I have a project Kicad, 5 schematic with two PCB board. Of course I used PCB index. Each component carries a PCB index that indicates on which board the component is located. This is not visible and clear in the schematic and should be made by colored markers.

My question:
How to create a color frame for example a red frame around the components in all schematic sheet that indicate to the first PCB board, and a green frame around the components that belong to the second board?

I hope that I have asked the question in a clear and simple way, I would be glad of any suggestion.
Thanks

KiCad doesn’t support different color graphic elements yet.

Also you will have some issues with this approach in general, KiCad philosophy is 1 project = 1 board. There are ways to cram more than one board into single schematic but it is not a smooth experience to say the least.
Try to split your schematic and indicate connections to other boards with connector symbols, this will work better in general.

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It’s possible to change the color of an individual graphic line even in 5.1.6.

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Ah, thanks for catching that. I only checked text not graphic line.

thank you, How can I reach this option?

thanks for your answer. The problem, the schematic sheets are more complex and difficult to change them.

Select the line and open properties, default shortcut E

I suspect it will be more difficult to fight kicad to keep all boards in the same schematic but it’s your choice.

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