Comments on: WebSphere Portal 8: New Modular Theme Framework

By: rishiibmsoft

rishiibmsoft — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:06:11 +0000

Hi Ashok, I was searching online for information on migrating theme policy from 6.1.5 to 8.5.5. Or at-least have them work. Came across your post. Were you able to find information/migrate theme policy. Thanks.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:32:54 +0000

Mark, thanks for your quick reply. I searched a lot but I cant find the replacement for theme policies. Also the last part of the paragraph says “Use them to create a theme policy to migrate a legacy theme” which means theme policy feature is still available in Portal 8.

Can you please share any link which talks about the detailed process involved in replacing/migrating theme policy?

By: Mark Polly

Mark Polly — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:29:06 +0000

In reply to Ashok.

Yes, IBM has deprecated Theme Policies on 8. They still work if you bring a v7 theme into Portal 8, but that may not be the case in future versions. Below is the notice from IBM about this. You’ll have to look at the new theme documentation to see how to migrate theme policies if you want to take advantage of the portal 8 theme.

Theme Policies
Theme policies are deprecated. Use the new theme functionality offered as a replacement for theme policies. The instructions are validated to work in Version 8.0. Use them to create a theme policy to migrate a legacy theme.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+WebSphere+Portal+8+Product+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Unsupported_and_deprecated_features_wp8&content=pdcontent&sa=true

By: Ashok

Ashok — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:48:07 +0000

Mark, are Theme Policies depracated in WPS v8. Do you have any ideas on the replacement feature? Or do we just have to migrate Theme Policies of prev versions to WPS v8? If yes what is the procedure to do the same.

By: Nithin

Nithin — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:21:43 +0000

Thanks mark, but recreating is a tedious job if i have quite a lot of themes in my older version. so i was thinking if there is an easy way to achieve the migration

By: Mark Polly

Mark Polly — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:33:23 +0000

In reply to Nithin. I don't believe there is a migration guide for the theme, or at least I haven't seen one. In my experience, it is often faster to just recreate the features in your old theme into the new theme manually.

By: Nithin

Nithin — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:58:13 +0000

Hi, i am trying to migrate a custom theme developed for websphere portal 7 to websphere portal 8. But in vein. Can u pls provide a link that has the complete steps of migration.

By: Girish

Girish — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:39:27 +0000

Hey Mark,
Thanks for sharing the information on Modular theme, I have to develop the Modular theme for my client in WPS 8.0.0.1. If you have any idea/document on, how to develop the Modular theme, that would be great. Kindly let me know.

By: Mark Polly

Mark Polly — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:18:23 +0000

In reply to Terry Oakley. Yes, the idea is to be able to fine tune page load times by removing code that isn't going to be used. Code developers that are going to use Dojo should coordinate with the page owner to ensure the right theme policies are in place. For personalized pages, where the user can add portlets themselves, you may want to use the "full" theme, or you may need to train them on how to update the page properties to support the portlets they are adding.

By: Terry Oakley

Terry Oakley — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:11:13 +0000

Hey Mark,
Thanks for the intro here. One thought about the modular theme and that it appears to be able to cut out loading dojo, or portions thereof. My understanding is that many portlet developers rely on the the theme loading the dojo lib. So, are we putting the onus on the portal admin to make sure the right ‘profile’ gets loaded to include what the portlets need? What is the recommendation for pages where we allow privileged user customization? Use full in that case? Just trying to understand the implications. Thanks.

By: singlevergleich

singlevergleich — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:42:33 +0000

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