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Building applications
The following topics contain information on how to build and efficiently use applications in 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.
Setting rules on Stages
You can direct the workflow of an application by setting rules on buttons within stages.

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.
  - Setting rules on items
    You can set rules that govern how items appear in a form or app page.
  - Setting rules on pages in an application
    You can set rules that govern how pages are shown or hidden in a form.
  - Setting rules on Stages
    You can direct the workflow of an application by setting rules on buttons within stages.
- 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.

Setting rules on Stages

You can direct the workflow of an application by setting rules on buttons within stages.

About this task

In a stage, you can build two approval buttons that appear identical - but send the user to a different page or stage. Which button appears to the user is determined by information the user enters, and the rules set on the form. To use the following instructions you must have stages created for your form. The instructions describe how to use rules and stages to create buttons that appear the same but function differently based on user input. The Submit button requests different information from users based on whether they make more or less than $30,000.

Procedure

Click the Workflow tab and then click Visibility, which is located in center of the top banner.
The stages are listed in a side panel. Select the Start stage.
Scroll to the bottom of the form, where the submit buttons are located. Hover over the Submit button and click the Edit Rules icon in the upper corner.
In the Perform this action section, leave the defaults of Start - Submit in the first menu, and Hide in the second menu.
In When the following condition is true, select Show items on all pages, then selectSalary.
Set the operation to Less than.
Leave A fixed value in the next menu and type 30000 in the blank field.
Click Apply and Close to save your changes and close the Rules window.
The rule is now set so users will not see the Submit button if they makes less that $30,000.
Click the Add Action icon to add another Submit button.
A duplicate Submit button appears.
Follow steps 2 through 9, but set the operation to Greater than or equals.

Results

The form developer sees two different buttons that perform two different actions. When you preview the form, only one Submit button appears. You can now create stages and form pages specific to the user’s salary.