Creating a new PageBuilder 2 theme

If you want to create a new PageBuilder2 Theme and you want to make minimal changes that require changing only static files then you can follow these steps

1. Use WebDav client to connect to http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/themelist, you should see list of themes that are already installed on your portal like this
   
   YOu can see two themes here because WPS 7 ships with 2 different themes
   
   
   
   • csa2.theme: This is the PageBuilder2 theme which is applied to User pages(Home pages)
   
   
   • ibm.portal.theme.Portal: This is the old Portal Theme that is applied to Administration section of the portal
   
   
   
   


2. Download the csa2.theme to your local folder say in c:\temp\


3. Rename the csa2.theme folder to some other folder say csa2.websphereNotes, the csa2.websphereNotes will be used as uniqueName for theme


4. Open the C:\Temp\csa2.websphereNotes\metadata\localized_en.properties file in the Notepad and change the value of title property to say WebSphere Notes like this
   

   
   #
   #Fri Mar 18 16:25:55 PDT 2011
   description= WebSphere Notes PageBuilder2 Theme
   title=WebSphereNotesTheme
   

   
   


5. Now use the WebDav client to upload the csa2.webSphereNotes folder onto WebDav store at /themelist url
   
   


6. 
   Now if you login into portal and go to Themes and Skins portlet you should see the Theme that we just created
   
   If you dont see your theme name here then that means the name is cached somewhere you can either restart the server or click on Add New Theme button and create new theme from there to see your theme name.
   

After installing theme if you try to update the theme say in theme_en.html file you add some text and try uploading the new theme_en.html using /themelist URL then you will notice that the changes dont get reflected, because your supposed to use /fs-type1 URL for modifying static files. After installing csa2.websphereNotes theme i wanted to change the theme_en.html, so i used these steps

• Connect to the http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/fs-type1 url
  
  


• Go to themes folder and you should see csa2.websphereNotes theme here
  
  


• Now go to /fs-type1/themes/csa2.websphereNotes/nls/ folder in WebDav and copy the modified theme_en.html file here
  
  

Now if you go to portal page that is using your test theme you should be able to see your changes