HELP! WebDynpro Not Taking Theme Changes from Mime Repository

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am currently trying to apply a customised theme to my WebDynpro application and have followed the blog entitled "Custom themes for Web Dynpro ABAP applications without SAP Enterprise Portal integration" and also taken the following steps:

1. Downloading the standard SAP Tradeshow theme and modifying it to ensure it is the required version

2. Changing the url parameters to include sap-ep-themeroot and wdthemeroot

3. Moving the css files to different Mime folders to see if that makes a difference

4. Restarting Java (which, as expected made no difference)

5. Inserting new application parameters in to the webdynpro called u201CWDFORCEDEXTERNALSTYLESHEETu201D

6. A further suggestion is to use report WD_THEMES to upload the customised theme and run the application wd_global_setting and change the theme location

I have tried importing the themes via WD_Themes but it isn't working either!

I have also checked SAP Note 1446099 and my Portal/ABAP stylesheet versions are as follows:

Portal: 7.1.6.0.0;ur=7.11.3.5.0;0.0.0.0.0

ABAP: ur=7.11.3.4.0;0.0.0.0.0

I also tried manually updating the stylesheet numbers via the Portal Anywhere Go tool but that didn't work.

I am calling this webdynpro and stylesheet from outside the Portal if that helps.

Help!

Oloy.

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

What are you using to edit the themes? Are you using the standalone theme editor for Eclipse? If so then the modified themes should upload using WD_THEMES.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas,

I am currently using good ol' Text Editor/Dreamweaver as I can't download the Eclipse Theme Editor (if you can advise how I do this, I'd be grateful, it keeps on giving me errors).

At present however, all I am changing is the background colour and it isn't being reflected. It keeps on reverting to SAP Tradeshow.

This is the current URL I am calling:

http://my_portal_details/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/my_webdynpro?sap-language=EN&sap-cssurl=/sap/bc/webdyn...

Thanks,

Oloy.

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

The only SAP recommended solution for standalone theme editing is to use the Standalone Theme Editor for Eclipse. I can't say as to why you can't download it from SCN. I just tried and the download started fine for me. Make sure you are logged into SCN before you begin the dowload. Otherwise you would have to contact SCN support (via Contact Us) link to see why the download of the hosted content is not working.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

Just downloaded it now (wasn't working yesterday for some reason).

I'll have a try changing something and importing it into ABAP, will post back with my findings.

Thanks for your help thus far.

For anyone else who needs Eclipse, it can be downloaded from here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and SAP Eclipse Theme Editor from here: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/nw-appserver-tools.

There is also an installation guide here: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/downloads?rid=/library/uuid/20a2a76b-ed4b-2d10-cba4-95081113a88f.

Bim.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

As recommended I downloaded and created a new theme (based on SAP standard) using Eclipse Theme editor. I then proceeded to export it to WebDynpro and upload it using WD_Themes.

After that, I adjusted my URL to the following to pick up the new theme:

http://my_portal_details/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/my_webdynpro?sap-language=EN&sap-cssurl=/sap/PUBLIC/BC...

Unfortunately, this hasn't worked!

We've also applied SAP Note 1440699 and that hasn't helped.

Any suggestions...

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

This has worked now, hooray!

I changed the URL above to read the following:

http://my_portal_details/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/my_webdynpro?sap-language=EN&; WDTHEMEROOT =/sap/PUBLIC/BC/UR/NW5/THEMES/CUSTOM/MY_WEBDYNPRO

Thanks for the help,

Bim.