Portal Theme

[Former Member]

Hello,

at the moment I create a new Portal Theme because the Portal shoul be in our Corporate Design.

Now I have a problem at changing two elements. I can´t find the attribute where I can change them.

The first element is the line under the both top-level navigation levels. In this line there is on the right side the name of the iView or page which is shown to the user and on the right side I have navigation buttons for history, back and forward.

The second element I can´t change at the moment are tabs in CRM-applications. In the group complex elements I found Tabstrip but when I change this nothing appears. Also when I change Old BSP Tabstrip in the group Component-Specific Styles.

Please help me!

Thanks!

Regards

Philipp

[Former Member]

Hi Philipp,

Question 1: "The first element is the line under the both top-level navigation levels. In this line there is on the right side the name of the iView or page which is shown to the user and on the right side I have navigation buttons for history, back and forward."

Answer 1: This is the element called "Page Title Bar" and it is an iView (techID: com.sap.portal.pageToolbar).

It is not themable in the Theme Editor as for example the Top Level Navigation. Its a pitty that SAP didn't implement it. Anyway the elements that are in this Page Title Bar are themable at a more atomair level in the theme editor. These elements are:

- Group (container) --> Background Color of this iview

- Breadcrum --> The Color, Size and Font of the breadcrum (if enabled)

- Link --> The Color, Size and Font of the Link

- Buttons --> The Color, Size and Image of the Buttons

Question 2: "The second element I can´t change at the moment are tabs in CRM-applications. In the group complex elements I found Tabstrip but when I change this nothing appears. Also when I change Old BSP Tabstrip in the group Component-Specific Styles."

Answer 2: This depends on how you "call" CRM.. what kind of iView do you use? BSP or WebDynpro for abap will adopt the look&feel of the portal almost always automatically. When it is IAC or ITS then it doesn't adopt the look and feel of the theme object.

For this last bit (letting IAC and ITS adopt the look&feel of the theme) there is a tool in the portal called ITS theme generator but I havent got it to work as we have the same issue ourself with SAP SRM in the portal.

I posted an OSS request with SAP today on this subject so if I hear something from them then I will post that also in this thread.

Good luck,

Benjamin Houttuin

[Former Member]

Hello Benjamin,

thanks for your answer. You helped me very well. The color of the Page Title Bar I could change now.

The color of the tabstrips are changeable in Pattern Containers because we use BSP. But I can change there only the background color. Before and after every Tabstrip there are small images. There is a possibility to upload the images. But where can I find these images and how can I change them?

Regards

Philipp

[Former Member]

Hi Philipp,

Question A+B: "But where can I find these images and how can I change them?"

Answer A: Goto System Administration > Portal Display > Theme Tansport... There you see a link to your custom Theme under the tray "Export Theme"

Download the .zip file to your worstation and extract it. When exctacted you will see that it again containts 3 .zip files. Unzip the one called portal.zip to a folder. When unziped goto the subfolder "xcontrols"... I don't know 100% sure if thats the one corresponding with BSP tabs but atleast there you will find a subfolder called "tabstrip" that will contain all the images you need.

Answer B: You can manipulate them using Paint (default tool on windows), Pain.Net (downloadable freeware), Adobe Photoshop (retail) etc etc.. almost every tool that is capable of editing .GIF's and .JPG.

When editied save them somewhere and upload via the theme editor (you already found that).

Cheers,

Benjamin Houttuin

[Former Member]

For all who are interested about the outcome of the OSS note, SAP came back with the answer that the IAC iviews shipped with the Business Package for SRM 5.0 do not adopt the Portal Theme. To adopt those screens to your corporate look and feel you have to change the stylesheets of the IAC's via ABAP SE80.

Cheers,

Benjamin

[Former Member]

1. Do you mean that every IAC's stylesheet needs to be changed to comply with the portal theme ?

2. How in SE80 do I change the theme ?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Sorry for the late reply... but this is the copy/paste comming from OSS:

Dear Customer,
Thanks for the details provided.
The trace shows that the call for the css from the ITS and not from the
portal.

EBP system does not support the portal theme integration,

We have discussed this issue internally and come to the conclusion that
it is not possible to use a portal theme with SRM; that is, the SRM
application uses its own stylesheets and will *ignore* the portal theme.
You can however customize these stylesheets to fit the look and feel of
your portal theme. The main stylesheet in question is ebpapplication.css
https://tgxrr02.muc.allianz:8443/sap/public/bc/its/mimes/bbpglobal/99/style/ebpApplication.css


You can modify this stylesheet directly or even create a new SRM theme
if you like. The stylesheet can be found at:

Transaction SE80
Internet Service BBPGLOBAL
-> Mime Objects
-> Style
Simply modify this css (or create a whole new theme) and then republish.
Hope this helps, if so please confirm the message at your earliest
convenience.

Cheers,

Benjamin Houttuin

[Former Member]

hi,

to create a customized portal theme, you can move to(if you have super admin rights):

system administration>portal Display>Theme Editor>.

Then click on any opf the templates provided:

It will open to an editable page, where all the properties that can be customized is given:

Please change them according to your requirement to get yous customized portal.

Then sabe this theme, with your name.

Move to system administration>portal display>desktop & display rules>portal content>content provided by sap>end user content>standard portal user>open default desktop and keep this open.

Then follow the same path till portal content>theme. select your theme.right click on it and "add as portal desktop".

Now assign yourself .

Now select this theme in the default desktop and save it. Wait for some time, you will get your portal theme

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am still in the Theme Editor.

My problem is that I can´t find the according elements for the two problems I described in my post.

Regards

Philipp

[Former Member]

hi,

then there only one possibility, you have to find out the .par file where these properties are stored.

You can download that, import it in webdynpro(NWDS) and then make the required changes, and deploy the par file back on the portal. To view the par files, we have system adminsitration>support>portal runtime> browse deployment. From there you ahve to find out the par file for these properties