Applying skins to form views in AR System applications


In AR System forms, views provide a good way to customize the look of forms for differing audiences and purposes. However, maintaining views can become complicated in certain situations. For example, when copies of all views must be provided for multiple sets of users such as multiple companies.

Another way to provide a customized look and feel of components in a form for different groups is through the use of skins.

For example, for user group A, a form view might have panels with a blue background in the header and for user group B, those same panel headers might have a green background as shown in the following image:

Using skins to distinguish views for user groups A and B

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Before you begin

Before you customize the skins and brand for the AR System applications, make sure you have the appropriate permissions to make these changes.

To configure skins for AR System applications

  1. Log in to Mid Tier. 
  2. From the AR System Administration Console, select System > Application > Users / Groups / Roles > Groups.
    Use the Group form to create the group to grant access for configuring AR System.

For example, you create a group called AR System Skin Administrator whose members can modify the skin and brand for applications. For more information about creating a group, see Creating-and-managing-access-control-groups.

To map the Skin Designer role to an existing group

  1. Log in to Mid Tier. 
  2. From the AR System Administration Console, select System > Application > Users / Groups / Roles > Groups.
  1. Open the Roles form in New mode
  2. Create a new role for the following applications:
    1. AR System Administration
    2. AR System Skins
  3. For each application, enter the following details:

    Important

    If the Skin Designer role is already defined for the applications, modify the role to add group information by performing the following steps:

    1. Open the Roles form in Search Mode
    2. Modify the group information.


    Field

    Value

    Application Name

    AR System Administration

    AR System Skins

    Role Name

    Skin Designer

    Skin Designer

    ID

    -2

    -2

    Mapped Group

    Test: AR System Skin Administrator
    Production: AR System Skin Administrator

    Test: AR System Skin Administrator
    Production: AR System Skin Administrator

    For more information about creating and mapping roles, see Creating-and-mapping-roles.

When you map the role to the AR System Administrator group, all the users of the group can access the AR System Skin Administration console. In a browser, the user can access the skin administration console by selecting AR System Administration > AR System Skin Administration. For more information about defining skins, see Defining-skins and .

The following topics provide more information about the skin configuration for AR System applications:

Action

Reference

Learn about the types of object properties to which skins can be applied.

Learn about the skin types and the priority by which it is applied.

Learn how to define skins by using the AR System Skins form and specify properties and permissions for each skin that you want to define.

Learn how to copy a skin from one application user group to a different application. 

Learn how to display the application with the defined skin. 

 

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