Global Objects - Themes

Note: This topic applies only the web client version of the Theme Editor. There exists a corresponding version of the Theme Editor for the Windows client. See Theme Editor.

In the web client, to edit new, copied, and existing themes, use the Edit menu > Themes option in the Web Designer. You can change foreground, background, and text colors for a variety of components; and you can change font family, size, and style. You can change the opacity of the toolbar buttons for enabled, disabled, and hover states. Some component types, such as buttons have multiple attributes, such as border colors and mouseover hover colors, for which you can define colors and fonts.

The Global Objects - Themes form has the Options panel.

Options

The Options panel contains application-level settings. You can make these settings:

Explorer Style: The options here are Menu and Classic. In both styles, all menu items are available. The difference is that in the Menu style, most of the menu items are found as sub-menu items on the System main menu; while in the Classic style, most of the menus are in the menu bar.
- Menu: This option provides fewer menus on the menu bar. Menus that appear in the menu bar in Classic style are found as sub-menus of the System main menu.
  For example, Form, Edit, View, Window, and Help options are all found under the System menu.
- Classic: This option provides menus in the menu bar, as were there in previous versions of the Windows client.
Required Field Indicator: These are the options:
- Asterisk: This option displays a red asterisk before required fields and a green asterisk before "To Be Determined" (TBD) fields.
- Corner: This option displays a small triangle in the upper-left-hand corner of the required fields. Specify the color for the Required Field Indicator color setting.
- Corner and Border: This option changes the border color and displays a small triangle in the upper-left-hand corner of the required field. Specify the color for the Required Field Indicator color setting.
- None: This option hides the asterisks and relies instead on background color fills using whatever color you choose as a style attribute. The default background color for a required field is yellow, and the default background color for a TBD field is light green.
  Note: You can use background color fills with or without asterisks.
Group Box Style: These are the options:
- Standard: This style defines a group box with just a top line.
- Classic: This style draws a line around all four sides of the group box area.
Notebook Style: These are the options:
- Standard: With this style, there are no borders around the tabs and content area.
- Classic: With this style, there are borders around the tabs and content area.
Button Animation: This setting applies to the web client only. These are the options:
- Standard: A ripple effect is shown when a button is clicked.
- Classic: No effect is applied.
Default Pinned Explorer Folder: Specify the default pinned folder.
The path format should be folder names (or untranslated caption strings), separated by slashes. For example:
master/xModules/xSystem/xUserManagement
If a user does not specify a default pinned folder, the application uses the default pinned folder (if it exists) of the selected theme.