Apply a visual theme to Web Determinations
What do you want to do?
Use a corporate logo or background image
Apply a corporate color scheme
Change the header or footer of interview screens
Use a corporate logo or background image
To display your corporate logo in a Web Determinations interview, do the following:
- Locate the web determinations main folder as follows:
Tomcat (Java) – default is the Web Determinations web application in the Tomcat webapps folder; for example, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\web-determinations\WEB-INF\classes\
IIS (.Net) – default is in C:\inetpub\web-determinations\bin\
- Add the new logo in the images folder
- Change the default logo in properties\appearance.locale.properties to refer to the new image
- Save the changes; note that by default, changes to templates and properties files do not require a server restart, but the Web Determinations Application server can be configured to load and cache them (properties\application.properties) in which case a restart is required.
Apply a corporate color scheme
To apply your corporate color scheme to a Web Determinations interview, do the following:
- Locate the web determinations main folder as follows:
Tomcat (Java) – default is the Web Determinations web application in the Tomcat webapps folder; for example, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\web-determinations\WEB-INF\classes\
IIS (.Net) – default is in C:\inetpub\web-determinations\bin\
- Change the default colors in properties\appearance.[locale].properties to match your corporate colors
- Modify the following to change the styling, layout, and web widgets (images, and so on) to match corporate branding:
- Modify the Velocity templates in the templates\includes folder to change the layout of the interview screens. For more information about working with Velocity templates, see the Velocity Templates Developer Guide
- Modify the templates\main.vm.css to change CSS-controlled HTML styles, and also properties\appearance.[locale].properties for other styles and widget controls
- Add web widgets such as images or flash objects that are used by the templates and styles in the images and resources folders.
- Save the changes; note that by default, changes to templates and properties files do not require a server restart, but the Web Determinations Application server can be configured to load and cache them (configuration/application.properties) in which case a restart is required.
Change the header or footer of interview screens
To change the header and footer on your interview screens, do the following:
- Locate the Web Determinations main folder as follows:
Tomcat (Java) – default is the Web Determinations web application in the Tomcat webapps folder; for example, C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\web-determinations\WEB-INF\classes\
IIS (.Net) – default is in C:\inetpub\web-determinations\bin\
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Modify the header and footer Velocity templates as required, in the templates\includes folder. For more information about working with Velocity templates, see the Velocity Templates Developer Guide
- Save the changes; note that by default, changes to templates and properties files do not require a server restart, but the Web Determinations Application server can be configured to load and cache them (configuration/application.properties) in which case a restart is required.