Upgrading custom themes and templates

For each customized theme and template, you should run a comparison against core and update your themes and templates accordingly.

In the comparison, current core version is on the left, new version is on the right, and customized version is in the middle.

  1. Upgrade your existing Jive instance, as described in Upgrading Jive package.
  2. Copy your production themes to the target server. Your themes are located in /usr/local/jive/applications/sbs/home/themes.
  3. Copy your production templates to the target server. Your templates are located in /usr/local/jive/applications/sbs/home/templates.
  4. For each customized theme and template, run a comparison against core

    For example, you can use DiffMerge that is a useful tool for performing a 3-way diff against core. Usually in DiffMerge, the current core version is on the left, the new version is on the right, and the customized version is in the middle.

  5. Merge from the right all differences between the old and new core themes and templates, keeping your custom modifications.