Creating new PageBuilder2 Skin

The Creating a new PageBuilder 2 theme post has information about how to create a new PageBuilder 2 based theme. You can follow following steps to create a new PageBuilder2 Based skin.


  • First use the WebDAV client to create connection to http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/skinlist, once you do that you should see list of all the skins available on the server like this


  • Download the csa2.standardfolder on your machine in say C:\Temp\fs-type1\skins


  • Rename the folder to say csa2.websphereNotes.skin

  • Open the localized_en.properties file in Notepad and change value of title like this

    #
    #Mon Mar 21 09:37:59 PDT 2011
    description=
    title=WebSphere Notes Skin


  • Upload the csa2.websphereNotes.skin folder back to http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/skinlist URL


  • Now if you log into the WPS Admin Console and go to Themes and Skins portlet you should see your skin, if you dont try restarting or creating a new Test Skin manually from the Admin Console, which should flush your cache




The next step would be to add this skin to your theme and then you can apply it to a page