Creating styles for Heritage Process Portal spaces
You can customize styles and use them to change the color and appearance of a space.
Before you begin
You must be an administrator, and be able to restart the server.
You must have access rights to the WebDAV folder to design and customize space styles.
You might need a web development tool, such as Mozilla Firebug, to edit cascading style sheet (CSS) files.
About this task
A style uses images to provide the background and overall color. A style also uses a CSS file to identify these images and additional color specifications. To minimize the work involved in creating a style, review the existing styles, copy the one that is closest to the style that you want to create, and customize that copy.
Copying existing styles for Heritage Process Portal spaces
Find a folder that contains a style that closely matches the style that you want to create, and then copy it.- Customizing styles for Heritage Process Portal spaces
After you create a copy of an existing style, you can customize the copy by specifying details such as name, location, and preview image. - Customizing dialog boxes for Heritage Process Portal spaces
You can customize the appearance of dialog boxes in a space by adding rules to the cascading style sheet (CSS) file of your custom style. - Customizing menus for Heritage Process Portal spaces
Spaces include menus that present users with options. These menus are based on a standard dijitMenu implementation that is provided by the Dojo toolkit. You can customize the appearance of these menus by modifying rules in the cascading style sheet (CSS) file of your custom style. - Customizing the footer for a Heritage Process Portal space
You can customize the footer that is usually found at the bottom of every page in a space. By default, the footer contains an IBM logo. - Customizing tab navigation for Heritage Process Portal spaces
You can customize tabs, displayed at the top of the content area and below the banner, that are used for page navigation. - Customizing widget toolbars for Heritage Process Portal spaces
The widget toolbar is the part of a widget that contains the title, the context menu icon (down arrow), and the minimize and maximize icons. You can customize widget toolbars to change the icon images used in your spaces. - Uploading custom styles for Heritage Process Portal spaces
To make a customized style available for use in a space, upload it so that users can see it in a list of styles.