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Several prerequisites must be met so your theme can be applied to an application.

  • The theme must be published to the server.

    For more information, see Publishing Themes.

  • The following Internet Communication Framework (ICF) service node must be activated:

    /sap/public/bc/themes

    To perform this step, launch IMG activity Activate ICF service for using custom themes. You access the IMG activity in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide by choosing Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step UI Technologies Next navigation step UI Theme Designer Next navigation step Maintain Custom Themes Next navigation step Activate ICF service for using custom themes End of the navigation path.

  • If you use SAP Web dispatcher, the following parameters must be set:
    Table 1:
    Parameter Name Required Value
    wdisp/add_client_protocol_header true
    wdisp/handle_webdisp_ap_header
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    For more information, open SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com and search for SAP Web Dispatcher Parameters - Reference.

    Also see SAP Note 2037174 Information published on SAP site.