Portal form
Completing the Skins tab

Field

Description

Select:

• User— to indicate that this portal rule is to support application users who do not update rules. The style sheet files and JavaScript files for this choice require substantially less memory on the user workstation than is required by the Developer setting.
• Developer — to use the Developer portal capabilities. (Most aspects of the Developer portal are fixed, but you can customize styles of the Developer portal. However, the Application Skin wizard works only with styles and skins for User portals.)
• Classic — to use the Version 4.2 legacy standard portal SysAdminDD or other older portal rules. This choice remains available for backwards compatibility but is not recommended for new portal rules.
• Composite — To define a composite portal. Complete the Spaces tab. See How to build a composite portal.
• Custom — To indicate that you have implemented a HTML facility to support work object processing not based on Process Commander technology, or are testing a system created with the Internet Application Composer. Version 5.4 includes two sample custom portals.

For details on how style sheets are affected by this setting, see More about Skin rules.

The Tabs and Custom tabs of this form are not used when you choose Developer for this field. The Tabs, Custom, and Options tabs are not used when you choose Custom for this field.

Select a skin rule, which defines CSS styles for work object forms, report displays, and portal elements.

If you selected User in the Type field, select User, Classic, or a custom skin rule developed with the Application Skin wizard. See About the Application Skin wizard.

When Type is set to Custom, this field appears. Specify the name of the starting activity for your custom portal implementation. Typically such an activity calls an HTML stream rule, which then renders the custom portal.