Customization Overview

There are two levels of customization for the themes:

The number of themes and theme attributes are configurable by the administrators. Theme and theme attributes are display profile properties; so they can be edited in the display profile directly. The theme properties are defined as global properties in the organization level in the sample portal. So, when a new theme is created, all users in the organization will see it.

The end user can select one of the preset themes that are defined by the administrator, or customize some theme attribute values inside of the theme page in the Desktop. When the theme changes, it applies to all the containers in the Desktop, and also, the changed property will be stored in the user level display profile.

There are tag library functions defined to allow JSPs to retrieve the theme related values from the display profile. Behind the scene, the tag library functions use the Theme Java class to get the theme properties. For more information on the Theme Java class, please see the Java docs for com.sun.portal.providers.context.Theme.

When you add (or customize) a global theme, all channels see the change, as themes are a global property for all channels.

See the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference for more information on the Global themes