Understanding Portal Themes

A portal theme defines the visual appearance of the user interface elements of a portal desktop. It does not define the layout, structure, or contents of a portal desktop. This is defined by the framework page (see Understanding Framework Pages ).

Neither the framework page nor the portal theme is directly assigned to a user. You combine framework pages and portal themes to create portal desktops that are then assigned to users. For more information, see Understanding Portal Display Rules .

You can develop your own portal themes by modifying one of the theme templates provided by SAP. For example, you can change the color scheme of the portal, change the size and type of fonts, and add your company's logo.

For an overview of the themes delivered with the portal, see Working with Portal Themes .

You create and edit portal themes in either the Theme Editor or the UI Theme Designer, where you can edit a fixed number of theme properties, such as background color. The corresponding stylesheets are generated automatically and do not need to be edited directly. The Theme Editor supports the CSS1 standard for cascading stylesheets. The UI Theme Designer supports dynamic stylesheet language files (.less files). To work with the UI Theme Designer, you must first activate it from SAP NetWeaver Administrator. Note that this will deactivate the Theme Editor.

The following additional tools are available for working with the Theme Editor:

• Theme Transport

  Allows you to export and import your own themes. For more information, see Exporting and Importing Themes .

  Note When you activate the UI Theme Designer, this tool can only be used to import themes.

• ITS Theme Generator

  Allows you to generate ITS stylesheets. For more information, see Generating Internet Transaction Server (ITS) Stylesheets .