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Customize Process Portal spaces
You can customize the behavior and the appearance of your spaces in various ways, from small changes like modifying default link text to large-scale changes like customizing the entire theme.
You can customize your spaces in the following ways:
- Login page: You can make superficial changes to the appearance of the login page.
- Space styles: You can make superficial changes to a page style, which determines the color and appearance of a space.
- Banner: You can modify the content, appearance, or behavior of the banner that appears at the top of each space.
- Theme: You can fully customize the structure and content of a page. Themes control the navigation, appearance, and layout of your space, including colors, fonts, and images that surround the widgets on the page.
The Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is used to store and deploy the artifacts used for the login page, styles, banners, and themes. If you customize any of these artifacts, deploy them using WebDAV. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to cooperatively edit and manage files on remote web servers. Most operating systems provide built-in support for WebDAV.
- Connecting to the WebDav folder to customize Process Portal spaces
You can use web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to make and deploy custom theme changes to pages in Process Portal spaces. WebDAV provides a network protocol for creating interoperable, collaborative applications.
- Customize the login page
You can customize the login page of Process Portal so that it has the logo and colors of your company.
- Setting the home space for Process Portal spaces
If you have the appropriate role, you can set a space to be the home space.
- Customize banners in Process Portal spaces
By default, each space in a theme has a banner at the top, containing the name of the current space, and menus and links that your users can click to perform various tasks. You can customize a banner to meet the needs of your solution or your users.- Create and customizing styles for Process Portal spaces
A style determines the color and appearance of a space by applying colors and images according to the layout defined in the theme. A theme can contain many styles. You can use a particular style, for example, to indicate the purpose of the space. You can also choose an icon to represent the space.- Customize page layouts for Process Portal spaces
A set of page layouts for you to use in your spaces. If the exact page layout that you need is not included in this set, you can create custom page layouts by making a copy of an existing set of layout files and customizing them.- Customize themes in a Process Portal space
A theme defines the overall structure, appearance, and behavior of a space. By default, all spaces use the standard theme that is provided with the product. You can create one or more custom themes to replace or augment this default theme.