Summary
WIZ003 - Customizing a Presentation Layout
Important Observations
- The Web Functions Wizard is very quick and easy to use. You can try many different layouts to find a design to meet the needs of your Web function application.
- When Layout Schemas 1, 3 or 5 are selected, only Wizard supported left/horizontal menu background colors will include the curved corners. Any manually selected color will be implemented with squared corners in the layout presentation.
- Changes to the color schemes are automatically applied to the layout (i.e. a re-build of the Layout is not required).
- Any changes to the layout features require that the layout be re-built from the Select Layout tab.
- DHTML menus can only be defined for the Left and Horizontal Menu.
- Only one DHTML menu can be included on a layout.
- A background image and background color can both be used if the background image includes transparent areas in the image.
- Previous selections used to build your layout for a specific process are pre-selected when you return to the Wizard.
- System wide settings will be used if no process specific values have been created. (Remember: System Wide default layouts and menu components are partition specific.)
Tips & Techniques
- Be very careful with the definition of default layouts (process DEFAULT) for presentations and components. The examples in this tutorial are process specific so the layout changes only impact functions in a single process. If you define a system wide layout or components, the changes impact all of your functions in the partition (unless they have a specific layout).
- If you change your left/horizontal menu background color from a color of your own selection to a Wizard supported color and are you using layout schema 1, 3 or 5, you must rebuild the layout to include the curved corners.
- If you change your left/horizontal menu background color from a Wizard supported color to a color of your own selection and are you using layout schema 1, 3 or 5, you must rebuild the layout to exclude the curved corners image references.
What I Should Know
- How to customize the presentation layout.
- How to modify the color scheme and layout features associated with a layout presentation.
- How to include menu components into the layout.
Other Tutorials
You are now ready to complete WIZ004 - Defining a Standard Menu Component and WIZ005 - Defining a DHTML Menu Component.