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How to install a Visual Theme
A Visual Theme is distributed as a single .zip file like for example chrome.zip.
- Download the zip file from the Gallery
- Unzip it in the OFBiz themes folder
- Issue the "ant run-install" command in your OFBiz home folder
From this moment your added Visual Theme is installed and available in the OFBiz framework.
How to change the backoffice default Visual Theme
The default theme can be set by using the Entity Reference tool in the Web Tools application. Alternatively, this setting can be changed in the seed data files that are loaded during the database setup.
The seed data for this setting is: /framework/common/data/CommonTypeData.xml
For example, to set the chrome theme as default, replace the line:
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<UserPreference userLoginId="_NA_" userPrefTypeId="VISUAL_THEME"
userPrefGroupTypeId="GLOBAL_PREFERENCES" userPrefValue="DEFAULT"/>
with the following one:
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<UserPreference userLoginId="_NA_" userPrefTypeId="VISUAL_THEME"
userPrefGroupTypeId="GLOBAL_PREFERENCES" userPrefValue="CHROME"/>
How to create a Visual Theme
An OFBiz Visual Theme consists of a simple OFBiz component installed, usually, in the themes folder. In the component, all the resources needed by the Visual Theme are defined.
When creating new themes for OFBiz, it is important to follow these guidelines
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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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- Edit the file /themes/mytheme/data/ThemeData.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
- 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.
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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