8.2 Defining a community theme 

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Attention: Community themes overwrite the default IBM Connections themes, thereby, changing the overall look and feel for IBM Connections. If you want to avoid this when you apply a community theme, you must remove the default Communities theme.
 
As a good practice, after removing the default theme, you should create a new default (called Base in this example) along with your customized theme (called Renovations in the example below).
 
Procedure

1. Copy the defaultTheme directory from <WAR>/nav/common/styles to a new sub-directory in the following directory:
   <install_dir>/<customization_dir>/common/nav/common/styles/
2. Make another copy of the defaultTheme directory from <WAR>/nav/common/styles to a new sub-directory in:
   <install_dir>/<customization_dir>/common/nav/common/styles/
   
   
   Note: The directory names must end with "Theme". Following this format as shown above, the directories to be created are BaseTheme and RenovationsTheme.
3. Rename one of the new directories to BaseTheme. This gives you a directory path that looks as follows:
   <install_dir>/<customization_dir>/common/nav/common/styles/BaseTheme
4. Rename the defaultTheme.css  inside the new BaseTheme to BaseTheme.css.
5. Rename the other new directory to RenovationsTheme. This gives you a directory path that looks as follows:
   <install_dir>/<customization_dir>/common/nav/common/styles/RenovationsTheme
6. Rename the defaultTheme.css inside the new RenovationsTheme directory to RenovationsTheme.css.
7. Make any changes (color, styles, and so on) to RenovationsTheme.css as needed.
8. To associate a thumbnail image preview with your custom theme in the theme palette, upload a <theme>.jpg file to the following directory:
   <install_dir>/<customization_dir>/communities/images/
   
   
   

Next tasks: After defining a new theme, you have to add it to the Communities configuration file. For more information, see 8.3 Adding a theme to the Communities configuration.

Parent topic: 8.0 Customizing Communities