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.
Note: Remember that themes you develop based on the resource kit are applied as the global
theme. Therefore, we recommend thoroughly testing your themes on a test instance before
deploying them on your production instance.
- Compress the files in the theme you created under sampleTheme/ into a ZIP
file.
- In the end user interface, go to . You must have administrator privileges to see this option in the
end user interface.
- Upload your theme by clicking Browse, selecting the ZIP
file, and then clicking Upload. It may take a few minutes
for the upload to complete.
- If you have already uploaded a theme kit this way before, the application will
run a diff for you so that you can see which files have changed. You'll need to
confirm the changes before you can preview them.
- Preview the changes in the preview pane.
- Click Apply Custom Design to publish your theme. (In the
Admin Console on , you'll see this new theme listed in the Available Themes menu as
"generated_advanced_skin_global". You cannot change this name.)
Every time you upload a new theme based on the resource kit files via the Customize
Your Site interface, the newly uploaded theme will overwrite any existing themes you
uploaded this way.
Don't forget that if you upgrade your site, you'll need to upgrade your themes, too.