Applying skins to form views in AR System applications - Documentation for BMC Helix Innovation Suite 23.3

For example, for user group A, a form view might have panels with a blue background in the header and for user group B, those same panel headers might have a green background as shown in the following image:

Using skins to distinguish views for user groups A and B

Before you begin

Before you customize the skins and brand for the AR System applications, make sure you have the appropriate permissions to make these changes.

To configure skins for AR System applications

1. Log in to Mid Tier. 

2. From the AR System Administration Console, select System > Application > Users / Groups / Roles > Groups.
   Use the Group form to create the group to grant access for configuring AR System.

For example, you create a group called AR System Skin Administrator whose members can modify the skin and brand for applications. For more information about creating a group, see Creating and managing access control groups.

To map the Skin Designer role to an existing group

1. Log in to Mid Tier. 

2. From the AR System Administration Console, select System > Application > Users / Groups / Roles > Groups.
   

3. Open the Roles form in New mode
4. Create a new role for the following applications:
   
   1. AR System Administration
   2. AR System Skins

5. For each application, enter the following details:

   Important

   If the Skin Designer role is already defined for the applications, modify the role to add group information by performing the following steps:

   1. Open the Roles form in Search Mode
   2. Modify the group information.

   Field	Value
   Application Name	AR System Administration	AR System Skins
   Role Name	Skin Designer	Skin Designer
   ID	-2	-2
   Mapped Group	Test: AR System Skin Administrator Production: AR System Skin Administrator	Test: AR System Skin Administrator Production: AR System Skin Administrator

   For more information about creating and mapping roles, see Creating and mapping roles.

When you map the role to the AR System Administrator group, all the users of the group can access the AR System Skin Administration console. In a browser, the user can access the skin administration console by selecting AR System Administration > AR System Skin Administration. For more information about defining skins, see Defining skins and Applying skins to form views in AR System applications.

The following topics provide more information about the skin configuration for AR System applications: