Working with Portal Themes

A portal theme defines the visual appearance of a portal desktop. This includes font size, colors, and contrast of the user interface elements of a portal desktop. You perform actions such as creating, deleting, and assigning permissions to themes at different locations in the portal administration environment.

Themes are stored in the Portal Content Themes folder in the Portal Catalog. Here you find:

The themes delivered by SAP
Your own custom themes

Caution

Make sure that you keep all your themes in the Themes folder (or a subfolder of this folder). Themes must remain in their dedicated folder and not be moved to other locations.

End of the caution.

The following table lists the themes contained in the standard portal content shipped with the portal:

Theme	General Characteristics
SAP Streamline	Uses light blue backgrounds that look good on monitors and newer presentation media, but tend to fade out when displayed through older beamers or LCD screens. It also uses a range of harmonic, similar color tones (mainly shades of blue with different dark-light values) in most elements.
SAP Tradeshow	The primary choice for sales and presentation situations. It offers a stronger light-dark contrast than the SAP Streamline theme by using darker border and background colors that stand out against the light background. It uses stronger shades of blue that display well on all beamers and LCD screens.
SAP Chrome	SAP Chrome offers users an additional theme variation. This theme is neutral in color, consisting mostly of different tones of metallic gray, with the exception of the bright yellow buttons.
SAP High Contrast	Supports the accessibility functions of SAP NetWeaver Portal. It was designed for users with poor sight to offer maximum contrast between text and background. The white background suits a number of high contrast users.
SAP High Contrast Black	This theme is an inversion of the SAP High Contrast theme but also uses a number of bright colors for controls such as borders and text.

Prerequisites

You are assigned to the System Admin or Super Admin role. Content administrators do not have access to themes in the Portal Catalog.

Procedure

The following table gives an overview of the tools that you use when performing theme-related actions in the portal:

Action	Location
Create and edit themes	You create and edit themes in the Theme editor. Choose System Administration Portal Display Theme Editor . For more information, see Creating and Editing Custom Themes.
Create folders for your own themes in the Portal Catalog	You can create folders in the Themes folder for storing your own themes. Choose System Administration Portal Display Desktops & Display Rules . In the Portal Catalog, choose Portal Content Themes .
Assign themes to portal desktops	Choose System Administration Portal Display Desktops & Display Rules . Open a desktop and add your themes. For more information, see Creating and Editing a Portal Desktop.
Assign permissions for themes	Choose System Administration Permissions . Locate your themes in the Portal Catalog and assign permissions.

Themes and Permissions

You assign permissions for themes, as well as for folders containing themes.

In contrast to other portal objects, themes have a fixed repository in the Portal Catalog. They are located in a specific folder from which they cannot be moved to another location.

To access the permissions for themes, go to System Administration Permissions and in the Portal Catalog, folder, from the context menu of a theme in the Themes folder, choose Open Permissions .

If you want to distribute theme administration across multiple administrators, you can create additional folders below the Portal Content Themes folder, store your themes there, and assign permissions for the theme administrators for these folders. In this way different administrators can access different themes.

For more information, see Portal Permissions.