Thank you Sorin and Vincent for responding. I plan to make a lot of changes to the page layout and I already have CSS and JavaScript files that I would like to use, so I would prefer a solution that would allow the most flexibility. I looked through the ColorTheme Application tutorial page suggested by Sorin but it seems that this application only changes the colors, not the page layout. So, I would like to try to override a skin. Regarding the Toucan skin, I was just tring to use it as a test since it was part of the tutorial - I don't really need it.
I finally understood how to use class properties to override the skin. I have been able to attached a logo to the skin document and reference it. Now I'm trying to use custom CSS files and it doesn't seem practical to attach CSS files to the skin document. So, here's what I would like to do: 1. Upload my CSS files to the server (ex. to /xwiki/skins/myskin/) 1. Use class properties to override various Velocity templates 2. Reference the CSS files from the inside the Velocity templates that I will write using the inline editor Question: How can I reference them from within the Velocity template? Thank you. Naoufel Chbihi Technical Specialist | Spécialiste technique Mainframe Operating System Technology | Technologie du système d'exploitation des ordinateurs centraux Service Management & Delivery (SM&D) | Gestion et prestation des services (GPS) Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB) | Direction générale des services d'infotechnologie (DGSIT) Shared Services Canada | Services partagés Canada 7038-700 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0P7 | 7038-700, chemin Montréal, Ottawa, ON K1A 0P7 Tel.: 613-748-2169 Fax: 613-748-2617 E-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:04 AM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki Enterprise 4.4: Custom skin for a space On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Sorin Burjan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, see my comments below > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Naoufel Chbihi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I'm running Xwiki Enterprise 4.4 on Apache Tomca 6 and I'm trying to >> create a custom skin for a space that I defined in the default wiki >> but nothing is changing. I tried following the steps provided in >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Skins#HChangingth >> eSkinatspacelevel(and specifying "toucan" as the skin) but nothing >> happened. I also tried the procedure described in >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Skins under "How to >> override a Skin" sections A, B, C, D and F.1 but I didn't see any changes. What you've done should work fine. You just need to specify a skin that exists. Thanks -Vincent >> > The Toucan skin was retired in 4.4-rc1, so it is no longer available > in 4.4 final. It was considered deprecated and was not maintained > anymore for some quite time now, and we decided to remove it. If you > are still you want to use it, you can still download it and deploy it > in your wiki instance (see > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Toucan+Skin ) > Colibri is now the only skin we bundle by default in XWiki products. > XWiki skins are much more than just some css and js files, writing a full > skin from scratch requires quite a lot of work. > >> >> Could someone please tell me how I can create a custom skin? I don't >> mind doing it either through web interface or by editing files >> directly on the server. >> > > To solve your issue you have 2 options from my point of view: > > 1) If you want to have different look for each space, you should use > the ColorTheme application (bundled by default), and create custom > themes which can be applied on a per space basis. This is the easiest > way of achieving what you want. For more info, look > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Color+Theme+Appli > cation > 2) You can follow the tutorial on Overriding a skin and override the > parts which you want to change. This approach is a little bit harder. > > Hope it will help > > Regards, > Sorin B. > >> >> Thank you. >> >> Naoufel Chbihi >> Technical Specialist | Spécialiste technique Mainframe Operating >> System Technology | Technologie du système d'exploitation des >> ordinateurs centraux Service Management & Delivery (SM&D) | Gestion >> et prestation des services >> (GPS) >> Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB) | Direction générale >> des services d'infotechnologie (DGSIT) Shared Services Canada | >> Services partagés Canada 7038-700 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0P7 | >> 7038-700, chemin Montréal, Ottawa, ON K1A 0P7 >> Tel.: 613-748-2169 >> Fax: 613-748-2617 >> E-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
