Alfresco 5.2 Quick and Dirty Change icons

I am running an Alfresco community edition locally and I want to change some of the default icons.

This is going to be a quick and dirty write up on how to change the icons. 

First the easy one

This icon

Log into alfresco share as an admin

Click on Admin Tools

From Applications simply click on Upload, choose a new picture and click apply

Done.

Next the harder ones.

Login Page

Replace this image.

I installed my Alfresco from the simple binary installer.  I places all my alfresco install at /10x13/apps/alfresco.

But wherever you are go to your base of your tomcat. 

>  cd webapps/share/themes/lightTheme/images/

This is the one we want to replace.  It is 48x145 pixels.

This is an svg file and so I had to take a png file and convert it to an svg file.  I used this web site to do it.  http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg [1]

I did not have much luck with converting my image.  I went from this

To this

Now there are some reasons why SVG is a vector based graphic so its hard to convert to. 

If you can get a good looking svg file here is what you should do to swap in yours.

I simply renamed it with a .BACK and put a new image in.  Then copied my image in

>  sudo mv alfresco.svg alfresco.svg.BACK   >  sudo cp ~/10x13_knowledge_48.svg alfresco.svg   >  sudo chmod 744 alfresco.svg

To get the changes to take effect you need to restart tomcat.  Or in my case I just reboot the entire server.

> sudo reboot

The alternative is to tweak a css file

First copy your file over.

>  cd tomcat/webapps/share/themes/lightTheme/images   >  sudo cp ~/10x13_knowledge_48.png .   >  sudo chmod 744 10x13_knowledge_48.png

Go to this folder

>  cd webapps/share/themes/lightTheme/

And open the presentation.css file for editing

>  sudo vi presentation.css

At about line 1477 replace the .svg file with your own image.

Then reboot

> sudo reboot

 

Wahoo it worked.

But, my image seems a little small to me so I am going to make a bigger version and see how it works.

My larger image is 80 x 328 pixels.  Aside from adding the image I also update presentation.css to the following

.theme-company-logo {    height: 80px;    width: 325px;    background: transparent url(images/10x13_knowledge_80.png) 50% 0 no-repeat;    background-size: 328px 80px; }

After another reboot here is the results.

But for me I do not like this part

How can I remove that part?

I did a little poking and found the file at  WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/guest/login.get.html.ftl

A little tweaking

> sudo vi WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/guest/login.get.html.ftl

There are the two lines I need to delete.

(It may be a good idea to make a backup of the file before you tweak it.)

Then reboot

> sudo reboot

And I got what I wanted.   J

Changing the footer

One other section I want to change is the footer section.

This section down here.

First to fix the text…

> cd WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/footer

Edit footer.get.properties

> sudo vi footer.get_en.properties

I updated mine to the following

label.copyright=10x13 © 2005-2017 All rights reserved. label.copyright.enterprise=

Then I want to use another image at the bottom.  I am going to reuse the smaller 48 pixel image I already uploaded.  (10x13_knowledge_48.png)

Fix the footer script.

>  cd webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/footer/   > sudo vi footer.get.html.ftl

Update it to the following

<@markup id="css" >    <#-- CSS Dependencies -->    <@link href="${url.context}/res/modules/about-share.css" group="footer"/>    <@link href="${url.context}/res/components/footer/footer.css" group="footer"/> </@> <@markup id="js">    <@script src="${url.context}/res/modules/about-share.js" group="footer"/> </@> <@markup id="widgets">    <@createWidgets/> </@> <@markup id="html">    <@uniqueIdDiv>       <#assign fc=config.scoped["Edition"]["footer"]>       <div class="footer ${fc.getChildValue("css-class")!"footer-com"}">          <span class="copyright">             <a href="#" onclick="Alfresco.module.getAboutShareInstance().show(); return false;"><img src="${url.context}/res/themes/lightTheme/images/10x13_knowledge_48.png" alt="${fc.getChildValue("alt-text")!"Alfresco Community"}" border="0"/></a>             <#if licenseHolder != "" && licenseHolder != "UNKNOWN">                <span class="licenseHolder">${msg("label.licensedTo")} ${licenseHolder}</span><br>             </#if>             <span>${msg(fc.getChildValue("label")!"label.copyright")}</span>          </span>       </div>    </@> </@>

The highlighted is the only part I changed

Then reboot

> sudo reboot

Wahoo that worked J

References

[1]  Online Convert

       http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg

       Visited 2/2017