There are two different style properties that control how the embedded outline appears to the user: type and title.

The first, Type, determines whether the outline shows the hierarchy of the outline entries. The hierarchy is set up when you outdent and indent outline entries. If you select Tree style for type, then all of the outline entries that have indented entries below them will show up as expandable sections. You can choose to have green triangles (or twisties) display next to expandable outline entries, or users can click on the top-level entry to expand it. In a Tree style outline, all top-level entries show at all times. Users expand and collapse entries as necessary.

Tree style outline with twisties turned on:

Tree style with simple title:

A Flat style outline displays one level of entries at a time. Initially, all top-level entries display. When you click an entry, if it is expandable, the sub-level entries associated with that entry will display. If it is not expandable, it will jump to whatever link or action is associated with it. If you want users to be able to navigate back up the outline, select Simple for the title style. The title will continue to display allowing users to click on it to get back to the previous level. If you choose Hide for the title style you must provide a button or action if you want users to be able to return to the top-level of the outline.

Initial display for flat style outline:

After clicking Phone Book entry:

To format an embedded outline

1. Open the form or page on which the outline is embedded.

2. Select the outline.

3. Choose Element - Outline Properties. The Embedded Outline Properties box appears for you to set the overall display of the embedded outline.

Info tab:
• Type - Tree or Flat. This setting allows you to decide whether to show the hierarchy of the Outline or not. Tree style shows all of the outline entries in the hierarchy, while Flat shows only one level at a time. Use the Flat style selection in conjunction with the Title style setting.

If you choose Flat Style, you have the option of displaying the outline vertically or horizontally. Display horizontally displays entries to fit the window across instead of down.
• Title style - Hide or Simple. Simple style lets users navigate back up to prior levels by displaying the parent of the current level in an outline. Hide style does not display any hierarchy, so once users go down a level in the outline they cannot navigate back up.
• Target frame - Specify the frame where you want the source (link, named element, or URL) displayed.
• Twisties (Tree style only)

Show twisties - Select to display a triangle that users click to see outline entries.

OS style - Select if you want the outline to appear in a structure similar to the Applications Navigator in IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) Designer. Instead of twisties, the user clicks a plus sign (+) to expand and a minus sign (-) to collapse. This setting is supported on Windows platforms.

Image - Specify a custom twistie image instead of the triangle. Click the folder icon to select a shared image resource.

Optionally, click the @ button to use a formula to control the image display.

• Columns (Flat Vertical style only)

Show as multiple columns - If you select this setting, the entries at any level automatically display in columns (instead of using scroll bars) when the outline is longer than the allotted height. For example, an outline that has entries that would normally require a height of three inches to display would wrap into columns if the outline had a fixed height of one inch. However, if the outline height is set to "Fit to content," columns do not automatically appear because the outline height increases to the height it needs.

Column width - Specify the width of the columns in inches.

• Root entry - Specify a root by using the parent entry label or the alias of the parent entry. (For backwards compatibility with Lotus Domino Designer R5, you should specify the alias.) When you specify a root entry, the children of the specified entry only are displayed. One use of this field is to restrict access to elements in your site or database.

If the specified entry does not have any children, then nothing will display in the outline. If you want to give users a way to navigate back up the hierarchy from the root entry's children, enable Simple as the Title style for either a Tree or Flat outline. If you want to limit users' access to those children entries only, set the root, and don't enable a Title style.
• Outline size

Width

To specify the width of an embedded outline as a percentage of the parent window, choose Fit to window (%).

To specify the width in inches of an embedded outline, choose Fixed (Size).

To allow automatic sizing of an outline based on its content -- for example, the number of entries and whether or not the entries are expanded or collapsed -- choose Fit to content.

To specify the width as approximately the specified number of characters based on the average character width of the specified font, choose Fixed (Chars).

Height

To specify the height in inches of an embedded outline, choose Fixed (height).

To allow automatic sizing of an outline based on its content -- for example, the number of entries and whether or not the entries are expanded or collapsed -- choose Fit to content.

To allow automatic sizing of the height of an outline based on the size of the window that the outline is displayed in regardless of its content, choose Fit to window.

Show scroll bar

To display a scroll bar if the embedded outline entries do not fit on the screen, select "Show scroll bar."

• Web access - Select HTML or Java applet to display an embedded outline to Web users.
• Special

Show folder unread information - If you select this option, folder names in the outline become bolded when there is new or changed information; the unread count follows the folder name. For example: Infobox (8). Note that this option works only on Lotus Notes Domino Release 6 or later.

Font tab

Select either Top-level font or Sub-level font to format the font of the outline entries. If Title style is set to Simple, select the Title Font. You can also select font colors for:

• Normal state of entries
• Selected (when the entry is selected)
• Moused (when the mouse passes over the entry)
Background tab

For each of the areas on the embedded Outline, you can specify color or image backgrounds. You can set mouse-over and selection colors. Images can be tiled in various ways, such as top to bottom, or left to right, or positioned under the text, for button effects. Images must be shared image resources for the database.

Layout tab

Set the positioning for the title-level (if Simple title is enabled), top-level, or the subsequent levels of:

• The entire outline entry

Height - height of each entry. (This setting represents the width of each entry in a flat horizontal outline.)

Vertical offset - aligns the outline entries relative to the top edge of the embedded outline or previous outline entry. If you want to customize the spacing between outline entries, use this setting.

Horizontal offset - aligns the outline entries relative to the left edge of the embedded outline, for title or top-level entries. Sub-level offset is relative to parent entry's left edge.

• The label text of the outline entry

Alignment - within the outline entry.

Vertical offset - relative to the top or bottom edge of the outline entry, depending on alignment; ignored for a middle vertical alignment.

Horizontal offset - relative to the left or right edge of the outline entry, depending on alignment; ignored for a center horizontal alignment.

• The outline entry image

Alignment - within the outline entry.

Vertical offset - relative to the top or bottom edge of the embedded outline entry, depending on alignment; ignored for a middle vertical alignment.

Horizontal offset -- relative to the left or right edge of the outline entry, depending on alignment; ignored for a center horizontal alignment.


Border tab

Set a border style, effect, and thickness.

For more information on borders, see the topic "Setting a border style, effect, and thickness" in the Lotus Notes Help.

Set paragraph margins.

Paragraph Hide-When tab

Set hide-when options.

See Also

Outline, outline entry, and embedded outline properties
Embedding elements

Glossary