Button Templates

Button templates enable developers to customize the look and feel of a button. To build a button, you can use multiple images or HTML tags. Using button templates is optional.

Button Template Attributes

This section describes specific sections of the Edit Button Template page. You can access the sections of the page by either scrolling down the page, or by clicking a navigation button at the top of the page. Note that when you select a button at the top of the page, the selected section appears and all other sections are temporarily hidden. To view all sections of the page, click Show All.

Name

Template Name identifies the name of the template. Use the Translatable check box to indicate if the template contains text strings that require translation. Theme indicates the theme to which the template is a member.

Template Class identifies a specific use for the template. When you switch to a theme, all templates in one theme are mapped to corresponding templates in another theme. Application Builder accomplishes this template mapping through the assignment of a template class.

Subscription

Use Subscription to apply an existing template to the current application.

Use Reference Master Template From to select an existing template in this workspace or another template in your workspace's schema. By selecting an existing template, you become a subscriber to that template.

To load a copy of a master template, click Refresh Template.

Definition

Use Template to define the button template that displays. You have the option of including standard application substitutions. For example, &ITEM_NAME. values can be substituted at rendering time. Button templates support the following substitution strings:

#LABEL# is replaced with a button label.
#LINK# is replaced with a URL. The URL then calls a #doSubmit# or a redirect JavaScript that submits the page (that is, setting the request value), or simply redirects it to the supplied URL.
#BUTTON_ATTRIBUTES# is replaced with the button attributes property from the button definition.

Note that all substitution string must be in uppercase.

Substitution Strings

Lists substitution string used in this template. Substitution strings are used within subtemplates to reference component values.

Comments

Use this attribute to record comments about this component.