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Building applications
The following topics contain information on how to build and efficiently use applications in HCL Domino Volt.
Incorporating services into your applications
The following topics describe how to incorporate services into your HCL Domino Volt application.
Triggering a service from a button
You can use a service to add information to a form or app page when a user clicks a button.

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.
- 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 and configuring a service
    The following instructions describe how to add and configure a service so you can map it within your application.
  - Service Oriented Architecture – Exposing a service to HCL Domino Volt
    The following information is an overview of Service Oriented Architecture built into Domino Volt, and describes how to expose a service to Domino Volt.
  - Triggering a service from a button
    You can use a service to add information to a form or app page when a user clicks a button.
  - Using a service to populate form items
    You can use a service to populate a Drop Down, Select One, or Select Many form or app page item.
  - Integrating your application with other Domino Volt applications
    A Domino Volt application can be integrated as a service within another Domino Volt application.
  - Directory services
    Directory service is a new built-in service that allows app builders to look up users and groups to use in various parts of a Volt application. This service is useful in assigning users or groups to a role, or anywhere in the application where a person or group needs to be dynamically retrieved.
  - Accessing data from Existing Domino Applications
    Data from existing Domino Databases, that are co-located with Volt, may be accessed by your Volt application. A Service Configuration is used to interact with an existing Domino Database. The operations are: List View Entries, Find View Entries, List View Categories, Read a single Document, Create a Document, Update a Document, Delete a Document, and Run an Agent.
- 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.

Triggering a service from a button

You can use a service to add information to a form or app page when a user clicks a button.

About this task

Procedure

Add a Button to your form or app page from the Palette if your form does not yet have one.
Select the form item widget.
The Properties panel displays on the right side of the screen.
Select Call a service when clicked.
A menu opens where you can:
- Select an existing service from the menu. If you select an existing service from the menu, go to step 8.
- Create a service call by clicking Add/Edit Service Configuration. To configure a service, go to step 5.
When you click Add/Edit Service Configuration, the Service Configuration window opens.
Choose one of the following options:
- Select from Service Catalog
- Select from Domino Database
- Enter a URL
See Adding and configuring a service for more information about each option.
Click the Inputs tab.
1. Select a source from the Select source: window.
2. Select a target from the Select target: window.
3. Click the connector icon located between the two windows to link the source and the target.
The connected source and target are shown in the Assigned Inputs section of the page.
Click the Outputs tab.
1. Select a source from the Select source: window.
2. Select a target from the Select target: window.
3. Click the connector icon located between the two windows to link the source and the target.
The connected source and target are displayed in the Assigned Outputs section of the page.