Themes

Sahana Eden supports custom Themes as part of it's overall Templates system.

This allows customisation of:

• Homepage
• Layout
• CSS

NOTE: This is still a work-in-progress: not everything here is ready yet & the details may change!

Default Theme

By default these files are used:

• /private/templates/default/views/layout.html

in non-Debug mode:

• /static/themes/default/sahana.min.css

in Debug mode:

• /private/templates/default/css.cfg
• /static/themes/default/layout.css
• /static/styles/S3/sahana.css

User Theme

A new Theme should match the name of the controlling Template.

To create a new theme:

1. Specify the Theme name in your template's /private/templates/<templatename>/config.py:
   • settings.base.theme = "themename"
2. Create new folders to hold the theme elements:
   • /static/themes/<themename>/css which will usually contain these files: layout.css, theme.css (it is normally assumed that /static/styles/S3/sahana.css is also used)
   • /static/themes/<themename>/img
3. If not already using a template create one: /private/templates/<templatename>
4. Create these files in your templates folder:
   • /private/templates/<templatename>/__init__.py - this can be empty but must be present.
   • /private/templates/<templatename>/css.cfg - list of CSS files to use in Debug mode, or be compressed together for the normal non-debug mode by the Build script (static/scripts/tools/build.sahana.py) into:
     • /static/themes/<themename>/css/sahana.min.css
   • /private/templates/<templatename>/views/layout.html - overall layout of the HTML.

NB Production sites who wish to compile their code either need to hardcode the theme name in their views/layout.html or upgrade to Web2Py version: 2.00.0 (2012-06-17 23:36:32) or newer