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RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

kartik shiroya, modified 7 Years ago.

How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

Junior Member Posts: 47 Join Date: 12/29/14 Recent Posts

Hello

I create a theme in Liferay using yo and gulp and try to extend with Liferay classic theme but I couldn't found an option for extent with Liferay classic theme.

I try to extend classic theme with "gulp kickstart" but there is no option for a classic theme, Please find an attached screenshot.

I m using liferay-ce-portal-7.1.0-ga1 , node version v8.11.3, CLI version 3.9.1, Local version 3.9.1

Anyone have an idea how to create the classic theme(I mean extend out the custom theme with the classic theme) in Liferay 7.1??

kartik shiroya, modified 7 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

Junior Member Posts: 47 Join Date: 12/29/14 Recent Posts

is there any solution or steps for it??

D T, modified 7 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

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Hi kartikshiroya,

I got the same message. Worked fine with 7.0, but not on 7.1!

I did the following:

(1) dwnload the liferay-ce-portal source, and unzipped.

(2) Got the necessary files of common themes atsourceRoot/modules/apps/foundation/frontend-theme/frontendtheme-classic/src.

(3) copy the content of above src folder into my new theme src folder, and deploy.

Hope, it may help.

Thanks,DT

kartik shiroya, modified 7 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

Junior Member Posts: 47 Join Date: 12/29/14 Recent Posts

D T:

Hi kartikshiroya,

I got the same message. Worked fine with 7.0, but not on 7.1!

I did the following:

(1) dwnload the liferay-ce-portal source, and unzipped.

(2) Got the necessary files of common themes atsourceRoot/modules/apps/foundation/frontend-theme/frontendtheme-classic/src.

(3) copy the content of above src folder into my new theme src folder, and deploy.

Hope, it may help.

Thanks,DT

Hello D T,

Thanks for reply, But i tried above things

Copy necessary files from liferay-ce-portal-src-7.1.0-ga1\modules\apps\frontend-theme\frontend-theme-classic\src

And deployed same , But i m getting following error.

throw err;
^
Error: build\_css\portlet\_topper.scss
Error: no mixin named text-overflow
on line 90 of build/_css/portlet/_topper.scss
from line 8 of build/_css/_portlet.scss
from line 15 of build/_css/main.scss
>> @include text-overflow

----------^

at options.error (E:\Project\ELASTIC_SEARCH\liferay_setup\source\lfr\lfr-dashboard\themes\classic-ext-theme\node_modules\node-sass\lib\index.js:291:26)

Regards,

Kartik

Alex Arriaga, modified 7 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1? (Answer)

New Member Posts: 4 Join Date: 11/7/17 Recent Posts

Hi Kartik,

This issue seems to be related with a mixin for text-overflow, I solved it (temporary) by creating my own text-overflow mixin, you can see the answer in this thread: https://community.liferay.com/forums/-/message_boards/message/110944870/maximized?_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_showBreadcrumb=false

Best regards.

kartik shiroya, modified 7 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

Junior Member Posts: 47 Join Date: 12/29/14 Recent Posts

Alex Arriaga:

Hi Kartik,

This issue seems to be related with a mixin for text-overflow, I solved it (temporary) by creating my own text-overflow mixin, you can see the answer in this thread: https://community.liferay.com/forums/-/message_boards/message/110944870/maximized?_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_showBreadcrumb=false

Best regards.

Hello Alex,

Yes, It works fine.

Thanks for Solution.

Best Regards,

Kartik

Lee Jordan, modified 5 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

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Please provide the community with support on kickstarting from classic ... it's what we all want to do.

Andrew Jardine, modified 5 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

Liferay Legend Posts: 2416 Join Date: 12/22/10 Recent Posts

Hey Lee, I know you're an old dog with Liferay and I am sure you have come across the "reason why" before -- but in case you have forgotten, or for others on this thread who might not be aware.Setting the classic theme as your parent theme is a bad idea because the chances of it changing from one release to the next are higher than the chances of _styled or _unstyled from changing. I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect changes to _styled and _unstyled, internally at Liferay, undergo a lot more scrutiny because, well, the changes will definitely affect (that majority) of themes. It may be frustrating now not to be able to easily use the Classic theme as a baseline (parent) theme, but I think alleviating that frustration now would simply lead to DIFFERENT frustration later when you do an upgrade and find your whole UI is now whack.

Now all this theory aside, I get it -- classic is just that many more steps ahead than _styled, so it can be a great time saver. One thing I have done in the past that seems to have worked pretty well, was I "cloned" the Classic theme into my own parent theme. By doing this I was able to get the "acceleration" of a theme that was a few more steps ahead, but also mitigate the risk of changes to the classic theme affecting me down the road. Just a suggestion and some food for thought.

Lee Jordan, modified 5 Years ago.

RE: How to create classic theme in liferay 7.1?

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I know it. It might be a bad idea but I'm not about to go through the entire control panel to style it and I keep up with changes in fixpacks.

The Liferay Theme Generator generates broken themes, end of story there and it's not possible to find the code through NPM very easily so I'm putting a link here to it. Gulp Kickstart often doesn't work.

See the two screenshots, one is classic admin and one is my "custom theme" ... I don't have time. I want to generate an admin theme that is a copy of classic and a site theme that is a copy of classic. So does everyone else. Here I don't want to style the control panel very heavily and I don't have the skillsets for theme contributors. The person who can write a theme contributor may not have capacity to build me a theme contributor that I can't maintain myself if he leaves the team. The theme contrivutor would be used once it wouldn't be reused so that's a waste of time too. A front end developer coming after me would have challenges too with theme contributors.

There are business continuity issues with mixing Java and UI skillsets, unicorns exist but theme contributors have to go.

Time is short, I don't have time to write a theme for Liferay it's too hard and it's not actually my time or money that I'm wasting it's my clients.
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/tree/7.2.x/modules/apps/frontend-theme/frontend-theme-classic

It's our potential that is being wasted, if we have to faff around trying to figure out how to make the theme "look fixed" we can't do other tasks.

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