Nonetheless questioning how effectively you need to use this function in your new and current tenants?
Not like earlier than, VCD 10.4.1 Branding and Theming function is an all UI expertise with a quite simple configuration part and quick software of the theme to the supplier and the tenant portals.
With VCD 10.4.1, Branding and theming function gives the potential to vary the appear and feel of the VMware Cloud Director Supplier Portal and the Tenant portal. With this, a system administrator can add/edit/configure some functionalities like:
- Altering colors
- Altering photographs (emblem)
- Including extra menus and
- Modifying current menu hyperlinks
Why do I want to take a look at this function?
A few of the VMware Cloud Director buyer tenant portal wants re-branding through the use of their very own firm’s emblem or photographs and portal identify and even offering customized hyperlinks. That is particularly legitimate for service suppliers who could have to model every of their tenants individually.
Earlier than we sink into this enhanced function, sure, enhanced function, which signifies that branding and theming function was very a lot attainable up till VCD v10.4. Nonetheless, it was by the API solely and means too complicated, complicated and with heavy limitations.
So how does this function work now?
The improved branding and theming function is an all UI function, making the system administrator’s job straightforward to know and create or customise themes.
How you can allow this function?
This function is out there beneath a function flag which is disabled by default and must be enabled manually by the system administrator from the supplier portal.
The place to find this function?
From the supplier portal, navigate to the Extra menu > Customise Portal > Themes tab. By default, there are two themes accessible, OOTB.
How you can Create a New Theme
If you click on Create Themes button, you might be offered with 2 panes:
- Left Pane: To configure the customized branding theme
- Proper Pane: To dwell preview the setting you might be configuring
What can a System Administrator do from the UI?
- Create varied new themes with customized colors, photographs and hyperlinks.
- Apply branding and hyperlinks to the login and logout web page.
- Handle the theme by enhancing, cloning, exporting, wanting on the particulars, making it default and even deleting.
- Import themes (Main use case is for multi-site deployment for a similar tenant).
- Convert outdated themes (created utilizing an older model of VCD as much as v10.4)
- Apply new themes to tenants or to their very own supplier portal.
Be aware: To see the customized branding settings configured on the login and logout web page, it is advisable override a default setting from the command line by executing the command (this setting is enabled to true by default for safety causes).
> ./cell-management-tool manage-config -n backend.branding.requireAuthForBranding -v false
Isn’t that an excessive amount of of an enhancement to the present function, which is really easy to make use of now?
Need to know every of those potentialities in additional element and are excited to dive deeper and be taught extra about them? If sure, take a look at the Function Friday video ““, which is devoted to the brand new Branding and Theming function through which we discuss every chance in full element, together with a demo.
