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Simply change the VISUAL_THEME property in general properties

 

How to create a Visual Theme

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When creating new themes for OFBiz, it is important to follow these guidelines

The simplest way to create a Visual Theme is starting from one of the already available themes in the OFBiz themes folder.

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Let's say you want to create a new theme for the backoffice applications called mytheme and have selected bluelight as a starting template.

  • Create a new /themes/mytheme folder and copy there all files from the /themes/bluelight folder.
  • Rename the folder /themes/mytheme/webapp/bluelight to /themes/mytheme/webapp/mytheme
  • Delete all files from the /themes/mytheme/includes folder and add your own header and/of footer files if needed
  • Delete all files from the /themes/mytheme/webapp/mytheme folder and add your own css files and images
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NOTE:
Please consider that all images references in your css file must be linked using the "/mytheme" path.
For example if you have a background.jpg image, you should use the following address: url(/mytheme/background.jpg)

  • Edit the file /themes/mytheme/data/ThemeDatamythemeData.xml as follows:
    • change the visualThemeId from "BLUELIGHT" to "MYTHEME"
    • if your theme is intended to be used for the Ecommerce application set the visualThemeTypeId="ECOMMERCE"
    • if your theme is intended to be used for the backoffice applications set the visualThemeTypeId="BACKOFFICE"
    • Change all VisualThemeResource lines to include references to you theme files
    • You can add more references like styies but using the sequence. this will determine how they are places in the web pages.
    • You can also add Variables that you can use in the includes/* files. For instance ROBOTTEXT.
  • Edit the file /themes/mytheme/webapp/mytheme/WEB-INF/web.xml as follows:
    • change the <display-name> and <description> with a description of your theme
  • Edit the file /themes/mytheme/ofbiz-component.xml as follows:
    • change all "bluelight" occurrences with "mytheme"

Your theme is now ready to be installed.

You have to either do a ant runload-install-file or import the file your modified modified /themes/mytheme/data/ThemeDatamythemeData.xml through the webtools.
If you went the route of /framework/common/data/CommonTypeData.xml then you must do the same with that file as well.

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If you did a backend theme, then select it through the themes link at the top (or bottom for FlatGrey) of any page (maybe in preferences for some themes)
If you did an eCommerce theme, then select it in the Product Store associated with the Website you want to use it on.

If you want to upload your theme to the Visual Theme Gallery, simply create a mytheme.zip file from the /themes/mytheme folder and upload to the gallery.

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