Specifying the name of a custom theme

After adding a custom community theme to the Communities configuration file, specify the name of your new theme by adding a custom string that contains the theme label to IBM® Connections.

Procedure

To specify the name of a custom community theme, complete the following steps.

  1. Create a properties file containing the string for the community theme name and add it to the customization directory for Communities. For instructions about how to name the file, see step 1 of the topic, Adding custom strings for widgets and other specified scenarios.
    For example: customization/strings/com.ibm.lconn.communities.strings.ui.properties
    Note: If you have an existing file in this location, add your new string to this file rather than creating a new file.
  2. Open the properties file from the customization subdirectory for Communities and add the name of the custom theme that you defined in the <comm:displayNameKey> element in the communities-config.xml file.
    For example: 
    label.theme.name.corporate=Corporate Theme
  3. Save your changes and close the properties file.
  4. To test your changes and to force all user web browsers to refresh cached content and display your changes, complete steps 5-8 of the topic, Customizing product strings.
  5. Restart the Communities server.