'White label' rebranding?

[jonathanscorner]

What is the best way to do a "white label" rebranding of an installation?

When I searched the (server) alfresco.war for the filenames of images that were loaded as part of the Alfresco branding, "AlfrescoLogo32.png" started turning up in .jsp and .ftl files. "alfresco_community_horiz21.jpg" turned up in a .class file inside the client .jar, which looks like it may be a little less straightforward to replace.

How tractable or intractable is it to provide Alfresco with a "white label" rebranding?

Thanks,

[mikeh]

You can replace all images, css, etc. without problem.

In order to remove the logo from the bottom of the page you also need to edit PageTag.java

Thanks,
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

Thank you!

Are you able to tell which files need to be changed? Besides PageTag.java, there seem to be a number of files that reference images etc; will replacing images and customizing CSS files give control over most of the appearance?

Thanks,

[mikeh]

Well the easiest way would be to overwrite the existing images then you wouldn't need to update any other source. There shouldn't be any other remote images other than the PageTag one.

Thanks,
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

Thanks; I've made a mental note. Is it one or several CSS files to change?

[mikeh]

The main one is -aptly- main.css in projects/web-client/source/web/css

There are separate ones for the Office add-ins, Google gadgets, AJAX pickers, OpenSearch, Xforms and Calendar that you may or may not need to look into, depending on what exactly you're updating.

Thanks,
Mike

[jonathanscorner]

Thanks!

Moving on from here with the information you've given…

[jonathanscorner]

I was thinking about something after this conversation…

Alfresco's "white label" status is not shared by a lot of software, and in my opinion is a selling point that isn't given stress when Alfresco is presented, but should.

Have you thought about this as a selling point to highlight?

Regards,

[mikeh]

It's probably not something we've actively marketed, but you raise a good point. Coincidentally, we've been going through a similar exercise recently for a large customer… which should become public later in the year.

We are planning on making theming much easier in the v3.0 client.

Thanks,
Mike

P.S. Sorry you got caught out by the spam filter!

[jonathanscorner]

Thanks!

Hoping this strength helps a product I like to succeed,