Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Creating, Modifying, and Troubleshooting Layers

Layers are a new tool introduced in Domino 6, enabling you to position blocks of content over each other on a form, subform, or page. There are two basic types of layers: transparent and opaque. As you might guess from the names, transparent layers allow content behind them to show through, whereas opaque layers do not.

Creating a Layer

To create a layer, follow these steps:

1.	Open the form, subform, or page in which you'd like to add a layer.
2.	Position the cursor where the layer should appear.
3.	Choose Create, Layer.
4.	Right-click the layer to open the Layer properties box, shown in Figure 4.15, and modify the layer's attributes as necessary. Figure 4.15. The Layers properties box.
5.	Add content ...