Atlas — Standard Skin rules

Your system contains several standard skin rules, most with availability set to final (). You can copy them (using a new name) and alter the copy. These skins differ primarily in appearance, not behavior; your choice of which to use, or which to copy and adapt as a starting point for your application's skin, is mostly a matter of taste. ( Some older standard skins may be less complete than skins designated for use with Pega 7.X composite portals.)

To review the appearance styles defined in a skin, use any of these approaches.

• As a best practice, associate a single skin with your application. By default, a portal points to the skin specified in the application, ensuring that all portals in your application have the same look and feel. Select the skin in the User Interface, Skin field on the Application form's Definition tab. The default skin is pyEndUser71.

• You can override the application setting for a specific portal by updating the Skin field on a portal record's Skins tab. Log in to the application using an Operator ID that is, through the access group, associated with that portal rule. You can use this setting to override the application setting.
• To override the application or portal settings when running processes from Designer Studio, set the Using skin preference.

Name	Description
Classic	Styles initially released with Version 4.1 in May 2004, for traditional portals.
CompositeBrand	Recommended for composite portals. Lighter styles.
Developer	Metallic look with compact work item styles, initially released with Version 5.3 in 2007. Referenced in the standard portal rule Developer.
pzDesignerStudio	Styles for the Pega 7.1 Designer Studio portal. See Designer Studio basics.
pyEndUser71	Styles for the Pega 7.1 Case Manager portal (pyCaseManager7). See About the Case Manager portal.
EndUser62	Styles for the version 6.2+ Case Manager and Case Worker portals.
Metal	Metallic look, initially released with version 4.2 SP5 in November 2005, for traditional portals.
MetalBrand	Metallic styles for composite portals, introduced with V5.5.
pxLiteBrand	Pale gray and blue for composite portals, introduced with V6.1.
pxMacBrand	Mimics Apple MAC styles for composite portals, introduced with V6.1.
pxXPBrand	Mimics Windows XP styles for composite portals, introduced with V6.1.
StandardBrand	Recommended for traditional portals. Gray and blue. Introduced with V5.5.
User	Metallic look with compact work object styles, initially released with Version 5.3 in 2007. Referenced in the traditional portal rules WorkUser and WorkManager. PROJ-579

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