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Styles set here apply to screen layout formats. Screen layouts are available only to user interfaces rendered in HTML5 document type. As a best practice, update deprecated panel sets to use screen layouts.

Screen layouts are for portal harnesses only. You should use a column layout within a harness container to format a non-portal harness that creates a form tag.

You can specify responsive breakpoints for screen layout formats with left and/or right regions. When the user resizes the panel to the breakpoint dimensions that you specify, the panel becomes accessible from an icon in the header.

You specify the responsive breakpoints for a format in the skin; you enable them in the screen layout. In the screen layout, select the User resizable check box on the properties panel of the appropriate regions in the screen layout.

A preview of the currently selected format displays to the right. You can also preview formats by selecting Actions > Launch in the toolbar and then choosing one of the following preview options: Run Process, Open Portal, Harness Preview, UI Gallery Preview, Skin Preview.

Overall

Minimum width Specify the minimum width of the screen layout.
Maximum width Specify the maximum width of the screen layout.
Width unit

Specify the unit of measurement for the width of the layout: percentage (%), em (the current font size), or pixels (px).
Alignment Specify the overall alignment of the screen layout on the screen.

Depending upon the format you select, specify the Background and Border for the Header, Left, Right, Footer, and Center areas.

In addition, depending upon the format you select, complete the following:

Header and Footer

Applies to the header and footer of the screen layout.

Panel height Specify the height of the header region in pixels.

Left and Right

Applies to the left and right panels of the screen layout.

Panel width Specify the width of the panel.
Add responsive breakpoint

Select this check box if you want to add a responsive breakpoint. When the user resizes the panel to the dimensions that you specify, the panel becomes accessible from an icon in the header.

If specify responsive breakpoints, which are available for screen layout formats with left and/or right regions, make sure you select the User resizable check box on the properties panel in the appropriate regions of the screen layout.

max-width

Specify the maximum width at which the left or right panel is hidden and is accessible from the icon in the header.
unit

Specify the unit of measurement for the width of the layout: pixels (px) or em.
min-width

Specify the minimum width at which the left or right panel is hidden and is accessible from the icon in the header. Leave the min-width empty when a range is not desired.
unit

Specify the unit of measurement for the width of the layout: pixels (px) or em.

Navigation Toggle Icon

Applies to the navigation icon that displays when the responsive breakpoints that you specify for the left or right panel are reached.

Height Specify the height of the navigation icon.
Width Specify the width of the navigation icon.
Location

Specify the location of the file, including the relative path. For example, images/AlphaCorpLogo.png.

To search for an image, open the Image Catalog tool. Enter any portion of a file name (relative path, file name, or extension) in the Search box, and click Find. If you can’t find the image, make sure it is in the webwb directory.

Panel Separator

A panel separator is a feature of a screen layout that enables responsive behavior. When a screen layout has a resizable panel, you can drag the separator to change the relative sizes of the panels at run time.

Use same for horizontal and vertical Clear this check box if you want to define different horizontal and vertical separators.
Separator thickness

Specify the thickness of the separators in pixels.
Use mixin

Select this option to use a mixin to define the appearance of this element. The Mixin field displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin.

Specify styles

Select this check box to define a custom background for the separator:

Select the background Type:

  • none — Indicates no background color, similar to setting a transparent background.
  • solid — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d), or click the box next to the Color field to Choose a Color.
  • gradient — Select the Direction in which you want to blend the background colors, horizontal or vertical. Specify the Start and Stop colors of the gradient. Specify a Backup color, in the event that the browser cannot render the gradient.
  • image — Specify the following:
    • Background color — To use the background color specified in a mixin, choose obtained from mixin and then click the gear icon to select the mixin. Alternatively, you can select custom color and enter the CSS hexadecimal value or click the box next to the field to choose a color.

    • Location — Enter the location of the file, including the relative path. For example, images/AlphaCorpLogo.png.

      To search for an image, click the Gear icon to open the Image Catalog tool. Enter any portion of a file name (relative path, file name, or extension) in the Search box, and click Find. If you cannot find the image, make sure it is in the webwb directory.

    • Tile — Specify tile settings for the image. Select None if you want to use a single image; Horizontal if you want a row of images in the background; Vertical, if you want a column of images in the background, or Both, if you want rows and columns containing the image in the background.
    • Position — Specify the placement of the starting tiled image, for example, top left.
  • Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the background for this element, by specifying a CSS Attribute and Value. Specify only CSS related to background styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair. Click the Delete icon to remove an additional style.

Depending upon the format you select, specify the Background and Border for the Header, Left, Right, Footer, and Center areas.

Background

Applies to the background of the specified element: Header, Left, Right, Footer, and Center.

Use mixin

Select this option to use a mixin to define the appearance of this element. The Mixin field displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin.

Specify styles

Select this check box to define a custom background:

Select the background Type:

  • none — Indicates no background color, similar to setting a transparent background.
  • solid — Enter a hexadecimal value (such as #3d3d3d), or click the box next to the Color field to Choose a Color.
  • gradient — Select the Direction in which you want to blend the background colors, horizontal or vertical. Specify the Start and Stop colors of the gradient. Specify a Backup color, in the event that the browser cannot render the gradient.
  • image — Specify the following:
    • Background color — To use the background color specified in a mixin, choose obtained from mixin and then click the gear icon to select the mixin. Alternatively, you can select custom color and enter the CSS hexadecimal value or click the box next to the field to choose a color.

    • Location — Enter the location of the file, including the relative path. For example, images/AlphaCorpLogo.png.

      To search for an image, click the Gear icon to open the Image Catalog tool. Enter any portion of a file name (relative path, file name, or extension) in the Search box, and click Find. If you cannot find the image, make sure it is in the webwb directory.

    • Tile — Specify tile settings for the image. Select None if you want to use a single image; Horizontal if you want a row of images in the background; Vertical, if you want a column of images in the background, or Both, if you want rows and columns containing the image in the background.
    • Position — Specify the placement of the starting tiled image, for example, top left.
  • Additional styles — Add additional styles, specific to styling the background for this element, by specifying a CSS Attribute and Value. Specify only CSS related to background styles. Click Add additional styles to define another CSS attribute-value pair. Click the Delete icon to remove an additional style.

Border

Applies to the border of the specified element: Header, Left, Right, Footer, and Center.

Use mixin

Select this option to use a mixin to define the appearance of this element. The Mixin field displays the name and a preview of the currently selected mixin.

If desired, you can specify the Top, Left, Right, or Bottom border as none, solid, dashed, or dotted , rather than inheriting the style from the selected mixin.
Specify styles

Select to define a custom border:

  • Apply to all sides — Select this check box to specify the same border style to the top, left, right, and bottom borders. Choose from none, solid, dashed, or dotted.
  • If you clear the Apply to all sides check box, select a border style for the Top, Left, Right, and Bottom borders. For each of these borders, you can select none, solid, dashed, or dotted. Specify the pixel width and color of the border, if applicable.
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