Assigning Skins

DivePort provides a set of built-in skins to change the look-and-feel of your portal pages. In addition, you can create and use custom skins. You can assign a skin at the portal or environment level, or you can assign a skin to a user or group.

Default Skin

Partial view of a page with the default skin assigned.

Example of a Changed Skin

The following figure shows the same DivePort page with the Ember skin applied.

Example of a DivePort page with the Ember skin assigned.

Assigning a Skin

  1. On the DivePort title bar, click ADMIN.

    The ADMIN Closedcontext menu opens.

    DivePort Admin menu.

  2. Click Portal Settings.

    The Portal Settings Closeddialog box opens.

    DivePort Portal Settings dialog box

  3. Click the Skin property.

    A list of available skins appears.

  4. Select the skin that you want to apply to the portal, and then click OK.

    The page color palette changes.

  1. On the DivePort title bar, click ADMIN.

    The ADMIN Closedcontext menu opens.

    DivePort Admin menu

  2. Click Environments.

    The Environments Closeddialog box opens.

    Environments dialog box.

  3. Click the Closedchevron to the left of the environment in which you want to change the skin.

    Location of chevron.

    The environment context menu opens.

  4. Click Settings.

    The Environment Settings Closeddialog box opens.

    Environment settings dialog box.

  5. Click the Skin property.

    A list of available skins displays.

  6. Select the skin that you want to apply to the environment, and then click OK.
  1. On the title bar, select ADMIN > Users and Groups.

  2. On the User and Groups dialog box, select the user or group whose skin you want to change, and click Edit beneath the list.

    The Edit User or Edit Group Closeddialog box opens.

    Example of an Edit User dialog box.

  3. In the Skin Override box, select a skin.

    NOTE: This setting overrides the skin that is set at the portal or environment level. However, this setting does not take effect if the environment setting Disable User Skins is set to Yes.

  4. Click OK to close the Edit User or Edit Group dialog box.
  5. Click OK to close the Users and Groups dialog box.

 

NOTE: If you specify skins for both an environment and the portal, the environment setting overrides the portal setting.

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