HCL Domino Volt requires session-based authentication and certain HTTP Tasks to be enabled on the server. These can be configured by either setting the values in the notes.ini file and Server document, or by using an Internet Site document.

To install Domino Volt, complete the following tasks:

After you install Domino Volt, complete the following tasks:

This topic gives a general overview of the application creation process, from opening the HCL Domino Volt interface to launching a completed application.

Domino Volt allows you to create an application from an excel spreadsheet, automatically creating the widgets and importing the data found in the spreadsheet.

Style the colors, fonts, and other characteristics of the application by creating or importing a custom theme.

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.

When you create a form or application, the following information helps you design an accessible form for users with disabilities.

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.

The following information describes the languages formatting features supported by HCL Domino Volt .

Rules help you gather the correct information from users and organize your information after data is entered in a form. You can create composite rules that govern how your form, and the data in your form behaves.

You can add labels to data elements in your application that become the label in the export file.

The following topics describe how to incorporate web services into your HCL Domino Volt application.

You can create and edit formulas to assign values to an item on your HCL Domino Volt form.

You can use specialized form items to style text, echo text back, create dynamic lines, or add HTML.

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

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.

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.

Create roles for users in your organization so they can work with data that is relevant to them.

Give the users in your organization permission to work with the data relevant to them by assigning them roles.

Setting Stage permissions defines the Create, Read, Update, and Delete permissions for each role in a stage.

To define who can edit an HCL Domino Volt application, use the design settings in the Access tab.

HCL Domino Volt allows the use of custom CSS themes that can be uploaded into an application to style the user interface to meet customer needs.

The REST API can be used by other programs to communicate with Domino Volt.

You can use iFrames to embed charts and applications in a web page.

You can apply your own custom Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to the rendering of your HCL Domino Volt application. To create a custom theme, you must be familiar with the basic concepts of CSS.