Changing portal_normal.vm in Liferay
Question
Right now I am using the default portal_normal.vm to display my page. I have made some changes to custom.css to give some look to the theme (JUst changed the colour of the background)
I have made some changes to the portal_normal.vm.
What if I want to give a complete different look to my page ? My answer is make changes to the portal_normal.vm page.
MY question is :
portal_normal.vm has some variables and stuff like:
<html class="$root_css_class" dir="#language ("lang.dir")" lang="$w3c_language_id">
I would like to know where does portal_normal.vm get these values from? By values I mean values of variables like $root_css_class ? Usually velocity gets these values from a java class. So in liferay theme, from where does portal_normal.vm get these values from? Is it ok to change the portal_normal.vm file completely?
2 answers
solution1
2 2014-04-10 03:22:56
Yes you can change any thing in portal_noraml.vm file and you design your own look.
Here to change portal_normal.vm we will use theme. in _diff/templates place classic theme portal_normal.vm and do changes.
All velocity variable are declared in init.vm file and we have another file called inti_custom.vm for declare our own velocity related variables.
Most of the velocity variables which required for portal already defined by liferay people we just use those.
Use init_custom.vm in _diff/templates folder for custom velocity varibles.
Most of the variables already loaded by velocity engine so max we dont need to create new variables in velocity engine.
solution2
1 2014-04-09 06:43:11
You can create theme in liferay and provide customization in portal_normal.vm.
There is init.vm file where some of the variables are declared and also VelocityVariablesImpl.java is the class where vm variables are defined.
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