Creating a new theme

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

I just installed Liferay and want to create a new theme for it. I started reading documentation and it says:

On Windows enter the following instead:

create.bat deep-blue "Deep Blue"

I can't find this create.bat file - where is it located? I also downloaded the development environment, but I don't see a new theme project there, there are ones for portlet, hook, service builder, template, but I don't see theme.

Can someone please point me to the right direction?

I would like to avoid installing IDE, I just want to have a separate project with ant build script - I work in corporate environment and I need to do builds on a different machine from the checked out source, so can't install IDE there.

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

Ok, I found a new theme creation in IDE, but I want to have an independent build with ant file - is it possible?

Also, looks like I need to hook to a runtime, I already have a weblogic runtime, is it possible to hook to it, or I need to create a new Tomcat one and then deploy manually onto weblogic?

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

Ok, just answering my questions, looks like PluginSDK is the way to go, found here:

http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/additional-files

I might write as I discover more issues.

[path finder liferay, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi all,
I am back after a quite some time. Now I started LR 6.0 with themes. I created a new theme using cmd prompt(c:LR-6.0.6/themes/mytheme>create new "new") and I tried to deploy it using ant deploy.

But I am not able to deploy as it is giving the following error

D:\netbeans_liferay\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.0.6\themes\build-common-theme.xml:114: The following error occurred while executi
ng this line:
D:\netbeans_liferay\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.0.6\themes\build-common-theme.xml:129: D:\netbeans_liferay\bundles\tomcat-6.0.29\
lib\ext not found.

I don't find a solution for it.

Pls help me,


Thanks,

[Sergio González Barrios, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

To make a deploy you have to do it from cmd prompt using this command from your folder theme: ant deploy

In your situation:c:LR-6.0.6/themes/new -> ant deploy

you have to have and apache ant tomcat in your computer to execute this command.


I hope to help you

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Are you using Liferay SDK to create the theme? If yes, you need to set up the properties in
build.[yourid].properties.

Main directories are

app.server.type=weblogic
app.server.dir=C:/bea/user_projects/domains/
app.server.deploy.dir=${app.server.dir}/autodeploy
app.server.lib.global.dir=${app.server.dir}/lib
app.server.portal.dir=C:/#tmp/portal-web/

auto.deploy.dir=${app.server.dir}/../deploy


those directories should exist, so the build script can work.

[path finder liferay, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply. I did all the things, but no luck there , still the same problem. By the problem statement I thunk it is asking for some ext related library or folder in bundles of tomcat dir.(hope you saw my last post which u replied). But I am not able to find that folder, since that is not available.

waiting for your reply,

Thanks,

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Just create the directory and see if it works. Build scripts require some directories to be there even though they don't use files from the directories.

[path finder liferay, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,
thanx for your reply. Now I created a theme and trying to create a drop down menu. But cant find any help to get thru it . Do you have any suggetions.

thanx for helping me out,
Path finder.

[Roman Hoyenko, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

you can reuse Liferay default theme, it already has a dropdown menu integrated. I think the default theme is pretty good, I would use it as a start for your theme - it is not cluttered, very good start for your own theme.

[path finder liferay, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi Roman,
Thanx for your replies. Now I used the drop down menus of Classic Theme and now I want to try images in some space of a portal. Is it possible without using a portlet. I want to create an image and a series of images down under for the introduction page.

[Maarten van Heiningen, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

You could make a webcontent object with a structure and a template for this.

Maarten

[path finder liferay, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi Maarten,
I want to use some space of a page for the images(as like in a welcome page images of a website). Do you web content display portlet or you said some template, now I am using liferay6 templates. There I am unable to create a row with 2 columns having later column again to be 2 rows.

If you understood help me please or I will elaborate it in detail in the next post.