Portal Themes 

Purpose

A portal theme defines the optical appearance of the control elements, font size, colors and contrast of the user interface elements of a portal desktop. A portal theme does not define the layout, structure or contents of a portal desktop. This is defined by the default framework page.

Neither the framework page nor the portal theme are directly assigned to a user. Combinations of framework pages and portal themes result in portal desktops. Portal desktops are assigned to users. Read also Portal Display Rules (Rule Collections).

You can develop your own specific portal themes by using one of the theme templates provided by SAP (such as SAP Chrome, SAP Streamline,...) for example for:

·        Changing the color

·        Changing the font type and size

·        Including your own company logo

For an overview of the themes delivered with the portal, see Portal Themes in the Standard Content Delivery.

Implementation Considerations

You create a portal theme in the Theme Editor. You can go to the functions of the Theme Editor in the delivered  administrator role by choosing System Administration ® Portal Display ® Theme Editor.

The Theme Editor is an easy-to-use user interface with which you can edit a fixed number of theme properties (such as the 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.

System Requirements:

Operating System	Browser Type
MS Windows	MS Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, Netscape Navigator 6.2
Unix	Netscape Navigator 6.2

Note that some of the functions of the Theme Editor are not available under Netscape. Read also Use of the Theme Editor under Netscape Navigator.

The following additional tools and functions are available with the Theme Editor:

·        Theme Archive

With this function you can export and import your own themes.

·        Theme Administration

With this tool you can define the portal themes available to the end user during personalization.

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·        ITS Theme Generator

With this tool you can generate ITS stylesheets.

·        Theme Integrity Test

This tool supports error detection.

You can find all these tools and functions in the delivered administration role under System Administration ® Portal Display.

Integration

The following stylesheets can be changed with the Theme Editor:

·        The stylesheet for the entire enterprise portal

·        All ITS-based IACs and SAP MiniApps (with Release 4.6C and higher)

·        Stylesheets for the Business Information Warehouse Releases 2.0 and 3.0