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Building applications
The following topics contain information on how to build and efficiently use applications in HCL Domino Volt.
Creating an accessible application
When you create an application, the following information helps you make it accessible for users with disabilities.
Using a Text item as a label
For accessibility ease of use, users might prefer to see the title of an entry field to the side of the field, rather than above the field.

Building applications
The following topics contain information on how to build and efficiently use applications in HCL Domino Volt.
- Creating an application
  This topic gives a general overview of the application creation process, from opening the HCL Domino Volt interface to launching a completed application.
- Creating an application from an excel spreadsheet
  Domino Volt allows you to create an application from an excel spreadsheet, automatically creating the widgets and importing the data found in the spreadsheet.
- Styling your application with a custom theme
  Style the colors, fonts, and other characteristics of the application by creating or importing a custom theme.
- Moving items in an application
  Form items are not static after they are added to a form. You can move items around on a single page, duplicate form items, and move items between pages on your form.
- Creating an accessible application
  When you create an application, the following information helps you make it accessible for users with disabilities.
  - Using a Text item as a label
    For accessibility ease of use, users might prefer to see the title of an entry field to the side of the field, rather than above the field.
- Enabling dynamic layout
  When you build applications, you can now set the display width of your Domino Volt application. Setting this feature reduces or removes the need for horizontal scrolling when you have an unknown or limited amount of space.
- Globalization features
  The following information describes the languages formatting features supported by HCL Domino Volt .
- Creating rules in your application
  Rules help you gather the correct information from users and organize your information after data is entered in a form or app page. You can create composite rules that govern how your form or app page - and the data in it it - behaves.
- Labeling data, performing data analysis, and exporting data
  You can add labels to data elements in your application that become the label in the export file.
- Incorporating services into your applications
  The following topics describe how to incorporate services into your HCL Domino Volt application.
- Adding formulas to your application
  Use formulas to assign values to items on an HCL Domino Volt form or app page. They are divided into two categories: Item Formulas, which list formulas created from the Properties panel, and General Formulas, which list complex formulas created from the Settings tab.
- Adding specialized items
  You can use specialized form or app page items to style text, echo text back, create dynamic lines, or add HTML.
- Managing the files associated with your application
  You can upload a variety of files, such as images, for use with your application. Managing these embedded files is done in the Files section of the Settings tab
- Volt document integration
  HCL Volt's document integration feature lets you use previously built PDF files and populate them with data captured by Volt in a Volt form.
- Adding Stages to an application
  It is often desirable to have an application, or form, transition through a set of phases or stages. At each stage the form might be used by different people in different roles. The form also might be presented in a slightly different manner in each stage, such as having some items or pages hidden, or in a read-only state.
- Deploying applications and viewing responses
  After an HCL Domino Volt application is built it must be deployed. After it is deployed, you can supply users with the URL of the application so they can launch it. After users submit completed forms, you can view the responses.

Using a Text item as a label

For accessibility ease of use, users might prefer to see the title of an entry field to the side of the field, rather than above the field.

About this task

The following instructions describe how to set a text item as the title of a field. For this example, the title is displayed to the left of the field where the user will type information. You can also use these instructions inside a Section, which allows you to format the spacing between the Text item and the Entry Field without affecting the spacing of the rest of your form.

Procedure

Add a Text item to the left column of the grid. Select the widget.
The Properties panel displays on the right side of the screen.
Type the title you want to display to users.
Copy the information displayed in the ID field.
On a new form or app page, where the text item is the first item on the form, the default name is F_Text1. You can change this ID to be any name you want, however each form item must have a unique ID.
Add a Single Line Entry, or Multi-Line Entry to the right of the Text item.
The Properties panel displays on the right side of the screen.
Delete the text from the Title field.
Go to Data Label and paste the unique ID you copied from the Text field.

Results

When you save and preview the form, the text item appears as the label for the entry field.