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Unify Corporate Documentation

  • Created: Thu, 21 Feb 2019
  • latest Update: Wed, 26 Jun 2019
  • By: Khaoula

Deliverables

Deliverable are:

Unify-corporate-theme.war: The theme installation package. 

Unify-corporate-theme.zip: The theme source code.

You can download the packages  from our software catalog

User documentation

This section will allow you to start using the theme directly in your new website or an existing one.

Installation

To install the theme in your Liferay instance, you can either:

  • Copy the theme war to <liferay installation>/deploy folder which will trigger the theme hot deployment.
  • Or you can use your liferay portal, just follow those steps:

Go Control panel -> Apps -> App Manager -> upload -> Select the unify theme war and by clicking install, it will be uploaded to the server and installed

After seeing the success deploying message "1 theme for unify-corporate-theme is available for use", you can find the theme under site template.

 

Please make sure that your portal language is US-en , at least it should be when you are deploying the theme.

 Go to sites -> site templates -> Unify Corporate Theme -> manage then click on the configure icon next to pages, if for some reason you don't see the unify-corporate-theme as a current theme, please change it by clicking on 'Change Current Theme' button

 

 

Apply the theme

After installing the theme, you are probably wondering how to use and apply it to your actual site.

Here are the steps:

  1.  Go Control Panel -> sites and choose the desired site -> Go to Site Settings -> pages -> click on the configure icon next to pages and select the unify corporate theme.
  2. You can import the unify theme resources to your site and easily use it

Theme Settings

There are 12 settings you can change 

  1. header: you can use one of the 11 background colors to customize the header of your website
  2. nav_styles: their is 8 styles for your navigation menu.
  3. nav_full_width: make the navigation menu wide to fit the screen size
  4. nav_alignments: you can set the menu at the left, center or right
  5. nav_position: you can choose between static, sticky bottom, sticky top header
  6. show_topbar: display or not the top menu
  7. topbar_bg: in case of displaying the top menu you can customize its background
  8. topbar_content: and also the its content
  9. show_search_box: display or hide the search box
  10. show_language_choice: display or hide the language box
  11. footer_content: set the footer content id
  12. use_unify_logo

Webcontents

For the first web content with login box in the home page, please make sure to disable the cacheable option: Click on edit template -> disable cacheable 

 

Shortcodes: http://lr7.themeray.com/web/unify-shortcodes/accordions

License issue

If you are seeing the issue bellow, please extract the license.xml file out of the lpkg and deploy that first will work around the issue, to do so you can open the lpkg with winrar.

"Unable to resolve unify-corporate-theme java.lang.Exception: This
application does not have a valid license."

This issue will be fixed in a later liferay release.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-88877