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How to install a Visual Theme

A Visual Theme is distributed as a single .zip file like for example vt_chrome.zip.

  1. Download the zip file from the Gallery
  2. Unzip it in the OFBiz themes folder
  3. 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 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.

The simplest way to create a Visual Theme is starting from one of the already available themes in the OFBiz themes folder. You can also start from a theme that is not included in OFBiz but is available in the Gallery. In this case just download the theme file, unzip it in the /themes/mytheme folder and apply the same procedure below skipping the very first step.

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

    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/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.

Enjoy !

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