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About Skin rules
Purpose
Use Skin rules to define a skin — a collection of styles — that determine the presentation of your application, including colors, fonts, images, and layout of portal, work forms, and report displays.
To provide consistency throughout your UI, maximize re-use, and minimize maintenance, use Style Presets to develop your skin. Style Presets are reusable groups of settings that you define in a single location and then apply to multiple elements in the skin rule. If you change a Style Preset, the change applies to all elements that reference the Style Preset.
You can modify the styles for standard formats, as well as create custom formats for grids, tabs, smart layouts, buttons, and links. You can also create custom styles and attach additional style sheets if necessary.
You can define styles for the following elements in the skin rule:
Where referencedSkin rules are referenced in the Skins tab of the Portal form. Users associated with the portal rule (through an access group data instance) are presented the corresponding portal layout.
Select 
> User Interface > Portals & Skins to view the portals in use by the current and built-on applications, their associated skins, and the access groups and operators that use them.
To support application testing while using the Designer Studio, you can also reference a skin rule in the Run Process In group of the General preferences. The skin you reference in General preferences is used when running flows, creating work objects and testing and previewing the application. It overrides a skin specified in the portal.
On the Styles tab of Skin rule form, specify the Overall Font for your application. The font you specify here is the default font for all Style Presets.
Overall Font
- On the Styles tab, select Style Presets.
- Select the Overall Font. The font you specify here is the default font for all Style Presets.
As a best practice, use the Overall Font when defining Style Presets. This ensures a single font across your UI and enables you to change the font used in a skin in a single location.
Style Presets
- Modify existing or create new Style Presets. For help creating Style Presets, click Help (
). The Style Presets that you define display in the Style Preset list. - For each category on the Styles tab: General, Layouts, Components, and Reports, you can use combinations of Style Presets or custom settings to define the presentation of the element. An element can use one Style Preset for part of its presentation, and a different Style Preset or custom settings for the remainder of its presentation. This list of available Style Presets is filtered — only Style Presets containing applicable style elements are displayed. Custom settings apply only to a single element; they cannot be reused in other elements. As a best practice, use Style Presets to provide a consistent UI, maximize re-use, and minimize maintenance.
- Save the Skin rule, and then click Run (
) to view a full preview of the skin.
Skin rules are part of the User Interface category. A skin rule is an instance of the Rule-PortalSkin rule type.
To access a Skin rule, do one of the following:
- Use the Rules Explorer to list all skin rules available to you. Click the skin name to open the skin rule.
- Select > User Interface > Portals and Skins to view all the skin rules available in the system, as well as portals in use by the current and built-on applications, their associated skins, and the access groups and operators that use them. Click the skin name to open the skin rule.
- In the Application Explorer, expand the User Interface > Skin category. Double-click the skin name to open the skin rule.
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