You can customize the appearance of the desktop by creating a theme with a color scheme
and images that are specific to your organization. You can modify the banner, login page, navigation
elements, and buttons.
About this task
The
IBM® Content
Navigator web client includes a default theme and
several predefined themes that you can use to change the appearance of your desktop. You can make a
copy of a predefined theme to create your own customized theme, and you can apply different themes
to different desktops for different users.
For example, a service provider with several clients
can create a desktop for each client company, applying a theme with a unique color palette and icons
for each client company. Or, an administrator can create one desktop for users with edit access and
another desktop for users with read-only access and apply customized themes for each.
Procedure
To define a theme:
- Open the administration tool in the web client.
- Either create a new theme by clicking or copy an existing theme by clicking Themes, selecting an
existing theme, and clicking Copy.
- Specify the name for the theme. The name is used only to identify it in the administration tool.
- Specify a color palette for the theme. For each color, either enter the hexadecimal value that represents the color, such as
#FFFFFF for white, or click the color circle to use the color picker.
You
can add as many colors as you want by clicking Add Color. As you add colors
to the color palette, the colors are automatically added to the selection list for background color
or text color.
- Specify the colors and images that you want to use for the application, login page, banner,
navigation elements, and buttons.
- For each element, you can select default or select a color from your color palette. If you
select default for a text color, the color is determined by calculating the color value that is
complementary to the background color.
- For the product name in the banner, you can use the application name that is specified on the
Appearance page of the desktop, or you can use a custom logo.
- For the login page and banner, you can display the IBM
logo, a custom logo, or no logo.
Tip: If the logo is on the same web application server
as the web client, enter a relative URL, for example:
/mycustomizations/login_logo.png. The logo should be no larger than 200
pixels wide and 150 pixels high. It is recommended that the logo have a transparent
background.
- Save your changes.
What to do next
After you create and save a theme, you can apply the theme to one or more desktops.
To
apply the theme to a desktop:
- Click Desktops, select a desktop, and click
Edit.
- On the Appearance page, select the Theme by
clicking Custom and choosing the name of the theme from the list.