Deleting themes

By using both the Outline and Project Explorer views, you can delete a theme and its artifacts from a portal project.

Note: Before you delete a theme, you make sure that you know its exact folder name. This information is available in the Resource Root field of the theme's Properties view. Once you delete a theme, it cannot be recovered.

 

Outline view

To delete a theme node from the Outline view:

  1. Expand the

    Elements | Themes node

  2. Highlight the theme you want to delete, the press the

    Delete key.

The theme will disappear from the Outline View. To completely delete a theme, you also have to manually remove it's artifacts from the Project Explorer view.

 

Project explorer view

To delete a theme's folder from the Project Explorer:

  1. In the project explorer view, click

    [project name] | PortalContent | Themes | HTML folder

  2. Delete the subfolder with the name of the theme that you deleted in the Outline view

  3. Optional: If necessary for your project, expand both the CHMTL and WML folders and delete the subfolders named after the theme.

 

Related tasks

Creating new themes

Editing themes

Defining layouts

Creating new themes

Editing themes

Adding portlets to portal pages

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Working with themes

Changing themes

Working with themes

Customizing portal sites

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