Use these steps to develop your custom theme on your development instance before
deploying it to production. Jive supports Freemarker and Soy themes.
CAUTION:
Jive Software strongly recommends using the
out-of-the-box Theming Tool
whenever possible due to upgrade risks when using Soy or Freemarker themes. Alternatively, you
can engage Jive Software's professional service team to help you develop a custom theme if you
don't want to do it yourself. Just ask your Jive Software account representative about this
service.
- Create a new directory for your theme under JIVE_HOME/themes/, for example,
JIVE_HOME/themes/MyNewTheme.
- Create your own themes files under ../MyNewTheme. You can use the files under JIVE_HOME/themes/ as a model.
- If desired, add your /MyNewTheme directory to your company's
source control repository so that you have backups and versions of your files.
- After you're finished making changes to your theme, add it to your instance by
going to .
- Enter a name and description for this new theme.
- To upload your new theme, see the instructions in Upload Your
Custom Theme.