adding themes to portal core?

[fredf]

Hello.

Is there any hook in the portal core api which I can call to create a new
theme in the portal core? I am referring to the portal-themes.xml file. I have a function that allows users in the portal to create their own theme (mainly background image and portlet-frame images) and i want to automatize this as far as possible. My idea is to have a new folder in

\jboss-portal.sar\portal-core.war\themes


created and then have a new element in the portal-themes.xml created. Does creating new themes require any additional steps to add a theme by hand?

So, my question is: Is there some sort of api-call to acomplish all this or do I have to manually create all files and folders and entries in the portlet-themes.xml?

thanks.

[theute]

You could use the ThemeService.
org.jboos.portal.theme.ThemService

It has the following method:
addTheme(RuntimeContext runtimeContext, PortalThemeMetaData metaData) throws ThemeException;

You should be able to achieve this goal.

[fredf]

You could use the ThemeService.
org.jboos.portal.theme.ThemService

It has the following method:
addTheme(RuntimeContext runtimeContext, PortalThemeMetaData metaData) throws ThemeException;

You should be able to achieve this goal.

Thank you for a quick answer. When the user has created a new theme, is it possible to edit the themes programmatically? I.e. can I call some setThemeMetaData() on an existing theme? I did not find any. The idea is to let the user upload her/his own portlet-frame-images to our server and modify an existing theme. (her dedicated theme folder in the core)

I have also found out that adding a new theme requires me to restart the server in order to find the theme in the portlet manager. Need I restart the server in order to call the org.jboos.portal.theme.ThemService.addTheme ?

[theute]

You cannot modify the files of the core.

You have to provide a way to upload content, images, HTML and so on.

Actually i guess that in your scenario you don't even need to use the theme Layout. You just need to create a smart theme, where it will construct the URL based on the logged-in user. (including the username in the path for example)

But first you need to give them a way to uplad files on the server.

[fredf]

What URL do you mean? The url of the layout or the url of the portal page?

[theute]

URL to background image for example.

You don't need to create a new Theme per user if you just want to let them change a background image.

[fredf]

Ok. The thing here is that our use case is page centered and not user centered. All users should experience the same theme when they see page A. The fact that I mention users is that we want to restrict users to only set the theme for the page they own.

Maybe you recognize this from an earlier question I had on this forum.

http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=98817

Is it still realizable?