topic How to refresh CSS without restarting tomcat? in Alfresco Archive

How to refresh CSS without restarting tomcat?

zladuric — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:31:47 GMT

Hello,I'm using Alfresco Share 4.2 to make a customized dashlet with a datatable. When I open the page source, this is my CSS entry:<style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url("/share/res/components/dashlets/site-themes_a5b1628a44985dece0d7f2ca03e7def.css");</style>‍‍‍Now, if

Re: How to refresh CSS without restarting tomcat?

jcdurand — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:37:10 GMT

Hi there,
If you're still stuck with this, here is the best solution I found.
–> go to the WebScript Home Console (/share/page/index)
–> then click on the "Clear Dependency Caches" button at the lower part of the page.

This should invalidate the cache and therefore reload static files.

Cheers

Re: How to refresh CSS without restarting tomcat?

zladuric — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:38:03 GMT

Nope, this still doesn't work for me. I still get the same

@import url("/share/res/components/functions/functions_90b811d474edefcbe1cc4784a1a34bb.css");‍

Well, that's not solved.

Re: How to refresh CSS without restarting tomcat?

zladuric — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:51:56 GMT

I mean, I still have to redeploy Share webapp to pickup the fresh static files. I'm tempted to put it all inline while in dev phase, and then just leave the test for the end.