I figured out how to do it and I'm responding just to provide the solution, in
case someone is trying to do the same thing. In my template page, using the
inline editor, I set the "Base Skin" field to myskin, which is the name of the
skin directory that created inside /xwiki/skins. Then in the "Header" field, I
used either $xwiki.renderTemplate('templates/header.vm') or
#renderTemplate('templates/header.vm') - both of them work.
Naoufel
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Naoufel Chbihi
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:51 PM
To: 'XWiki Users'
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki Enterprise 4.4: Custom skin for a space
Hello again
I have created a "templates" directory inside my custom skin directory (i.e.
/xwiki/skins/myskin/templates), I created a file called "header.vm" inside it,
and I copied my custom code into the "header.vm" file. Now, I want to modify
the "Header" attribute in my skin page (using the inline editor) so that it
simply contains an "import" or "include" statement that references the file
"/xwiki/skins/myskin/templates/header.vm" file. I think that I saw this
somewhere but I can't find it now. I have made several attempts but I can't
find the right statement.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Naoufel
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Naoufel Chbihi
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:50 AM
To: 'XWiki Users'
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki Enterprise 4.4: Custom skin for a space
Thank you, Caty. I think that I'm starting to understand how Velocity
templates are used. I still need to try overriding the template by creating a
custom skin directory and placing files inside, as opposed to using class
properties.
Naoufel Chbihi
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:43 AM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki Enterprise 4.4: Custom skin for a space
Hi,
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Skins already given by Sorin
should help you with most of your questions.
You could use http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/DebugSkinto
see the part you want to change in what template is defined.
Also take a look at the current style for Colibri
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-colibri/src/main/resources/colibri
and the structure
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/src/main/webapp
Thanks,
Caty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Naoufel Chbihi < [email protected]>
wrote:
> 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#HChanging
> >> th 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+App
> > li
> > 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]
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