This presentation is part of the Portals Overview Self-Study Course.

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The Skins tab allows the user to select the portal type and an associated skin rule.  Skins are a collection of styles sheets defined by a skin rule.

The Type field allows you to choose the type of portal you are creating.  The User type is a much lighter portal than the Developer type.  The style sheet files and JavaScript files for the User type require substantially less memory on the user workstation than is required by the Developer setting.

The Developer type is used in version 5 systems and allows you to customize the style sheets and menus of the standard Developer portal.  When you select “Developer” as the type, the “Tabs” and “Custom” tabs of this form are not used.

The Classic type allows the user to utilize the 4.2 legacy portal or other older portal rules.  This choice remains available for backwards compatibility.

The Skin field defines a specific set of CSS style sheets for work object forms, report displays, and portal elements.  The values populating this field are instances of the Rule-PortalSkin class.

Developers may add new Rule-PortalSkin instances and within those, create new CSS files in the Rule-File-Text class.  Remember, these style sheets define the appearance of the portal.