Selected outline entry properties

Providing identifying information for an outline entry

Procedure

  1. Type the label that you want to appear in the outline entry.
  2. Optional: Type the popup text that you want to appear. Popup text appears if the window is not wide enough to display the entire label and the user moves the mouse over the outline entry.
  3. Optional: Type an alias. An alias is useful if you refer to an outline entry in a formula.

Providing content for an outline entry

About this task

When you create an outline entry, you must provide content as follows.

Procedure

  1. In the Type field, choose one of the following ways to provide content for the outline entry:
    • Action
    • Link
    • Named Element
    • URL
  2. In the Value field, type a value for the element type you have chosen. For example, if you already created a page named PAGE1, type PAGE1 in the Value field. If you chose a URL, type the full URL specification (for example, http://www.lotus.com). You can also paste a URL or use a formula that evaluates to a URL. Alternately, you can click one of the following:
    • Use the folder icon to select a design element from a list in the Locate Object dialog box.
    • Use the formula icon (@) to specify a formula that evaluates to a name. The formula resolves to the name of an element; using a formula allows you to dynamically specify the outline entry source (for example, whether the named element links to a page or a view).
    • Use the paste icon to paste an element which you previously copied to the Clipboard.
  3. Optional: In the Frame field, type the target frame for the outline entry source.

To add an image to the entry

Procedure

You can display an image with any outline entry. By default, outline entries for views display the view icon, and outline entries for folders display the folder icon. You can display these icons, hide the icons, or choose one of your own.

To add an image to appear next to your entry:

Procedure

  1. Select an outline entry and choose Design - Outline Entry Properties.
  2. On the Outline Entry Info tab, do one of the following
    • Click the folder icon in the Image section and select the shared image resource for your graphic.
    • Click the @ button to use a formula to control the display of the image.
    • Select "Do not display an image."

Does not keep selection focus

Procedure

After a user clicks on the entry, the entry will not remain selected. The previously selected entry will retain the focus.

Display separator above this entry

About this task

In Notes® Standard configuration Personal Information Management (PIM) composite applications, Mail, Calendar, and Contacts, a horizontal separator line will appear between this entry and the one before it.

Note: This option is only displayed if your Notes® settings are configured to show options for the Eclipse-based user interface. See the topic "Additional design element options for composite applications" on the IBM® Composite Application wiki at http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/compappwiki.nsffor more information on adjusting your Notes® settings to display these options.

Read only

Procedure

If you select "Read only," users cannot edit the outline in place.

To hide an entry

About this task

You may want certain entries to show up only under certain circumstances. For example, you can program an entry to be hidden when viewed with a Web browser. To hide outline entries:

Procedure

  1. In the Outline Entry Properties box, click the Hide tab.
  2. Select an option for hiding the entry or enter a formula in the formula box.