Skin rules - Completing the Create or Save As form

Create a skin or update an existing one to specify the presentation aspects of your application.

Creating a skin

1. Click +Create > User Interface > Skin.

2. Enter a label for the skin.

3. Click Create and open.

4. Use the tabs of the Skin rule form to:

   • Set the component styles: Define the style within the skin for components such as layouts, controls, and reports. You can define various style formats for each component and reference the formats on property panels in sections, harnesses, and controls.

   • Add mixins: Mixins define a reusable typography, border, or background style, or a combination of these styles. Use mixins to enforce consistency across your user interface, maximize re-use, and minimize future maintenance.

   • Include styles: Use the Included styles tab to add additional style sheets to the skin. You can also enable and disable automatic generation of the work form CSS on this tab.

Updating a skin

1. To access an existing skin, do one of the following:

   • Click Designer Studio > User Interface, Skins, interfaces, & templates. On the Skins tab of the Skins, Interfaces, & templates screen, click the skin that you want to open.

   • In the Records Explorer, expand the User Interface > Skin category. Double-click the skin that you want to open.

2. Use the tabs of the Skin rule form to complete the updates.

Key parts:

A Skin rule has a single key part:

Rule resolution

When searching for a Skin rule, the system

• Filters candidate rules based on a requestor's RuleSet list of RuleSets and versions
• Finds circumstance-qualified rules that override base rules

The class hierarchy is not relevant to rule resolution for skin rules. Time-qualified circumstances are not supported for skin rules.

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