Skins

Use the Skins page to manage skins for all portals (if accessed through the Shared Assets page) or for the current portal (if accessed through the Assets page). More

Skins enable you to define the look and feel of the entire application or a particular portal. More

You can create custom skins and edit them in WebCenter Portal to suit your requirements. You can also download custom skins, edit them in an IDE like Oracle JDeveloper, and upload them back into WebCenter Portal.

Out-of-the-box, WebCenter Portal provides various built-in skins. You cannot modify or download built-in skins, however, you can make a copy of a built-in skin, and then edit the copy.

Only users with the application-level permission Create, Edit, and Delete Skins can manage shared skins. Users with the portal-level permission Create, Edit, and Delete Assets (simple permissions model) or Create, Edit, and Delete Skins (detailed permissions model) can manage portal-level skins.

Element	Description
Create	Click to create a skin. More In the Create New Skin dialog, specify a name and description for the new skin, and the name of the existing skin to use as the starting point for the new skin.
Delete	Click to delete the currently selected skin. More You cannot delete the built-in skins.
Upload	Click to open the Upload dialog, where you can enter the name of an AAR file to use to import a skin into WebCenter Portal. More The AAR file can be located on the local file system or the file system on a server.
Download	Click to open the Download dialog, where you can export the selected skin to an AAR file on your local file system or the file system on a server. The AAR file can then be edited in tools such as Oracle JDeveloper. More You cannot download the built-in skins.
Actions menu	Click to choose one of the following actions: Copy to create a copy of the selected skin. More When you create a copy, the copy is initially hidden regardless of the show or hide status of the original skin. Security Settings to open the Security Settings dialog, where you can grant manage and update permissions to selected users and roles on the selected skin. More Show Properties to open the Show Properties dialog, where you can view information about the selected skin, such as the display name, description, asset ID, metadata file location, creation date, and so on. More Edit Source to directly edit the source code of the skin. More Edit Properties to open the Edit Properties dialog, where you can update the name, description, icon URI, category, and custom attributes of the selected skin. More For shared assets, you can also choose whether or not to expose the skin in the Home portal or other portals. More
Filter	Enter a full or partial search string then click to refresh the list with all the skins for which a match is found in the Display Name or Description. To clear the current search string and display all skins, click .
Refresh	Click to refresh the list of skins.
Skins	Lists skins. The icon next to a skin name indicates that the skin is a shared skin that is available for use in the current portal.
Available	Select to indicate whether the skin is published or not. More A check mark () indicates that the skin is published and available for others to use. An empty check box () indicates that the skin is not yet published.
Modified By	Displays the user name of the user who last edited the skin and the date and time at which the changes were made.
Actions	Click Edit to edit the skin. More You cannot edit the built-in skins.