Nonetheless questioning how effectively you should use this function on your new and current tenants?
Not like earlier than, VCD 10.4.1 Branding and Theming function is an all UI expertise with a quite simple configuration part and fast utility of the theme to the supplier and the tenant portals.
With VCD 10.4.1, Branding and theming function supplies the potential to vary the appear and feel of the VMware Cloud Director Supplier Portal and the Tenant portal. With this, a system administrator can add/edit/configure some functionalities like:
- Altering colors
- Altering photographs (brand)
- Including extra menus and
- Enhancing current menu hyperlinks
Why do I would like to take a look at this function?
Among the VMware Cloud Director buyer tenant portal wants re-branding through the use of their very own firm’s brand or photographs and portal title and even offering customized hyperlinks. That is particularly legitimate for service suppliers who might must model every of their tenants individually.
Earlier than we sink into this enhanced function, sure, enhanced function, which signifies that branding and theming function was very a lot potential up till VCD v10.4. Nevertheless, it was by way of the API solely and approach too complicated, complicated and with heavy limitations.
So how does this function work now?
The improved branding and theming function is an all UI function, making the system administrator’s job simple to know and create or customise themes.
Easy methods to allow this function?
This function is accessible below a function flag which is disabled by default and must be enabled manually by the system administrator from the supplier portal.
The place to find this function?
From the supplier portal, navigate to the Extra menu > Customise Portal > Themes tab. By default, there are two themes accessible, OOTB.
Easy methods to Create a New Theme
While you click on Create Themes button, you’re introduced with 2 panes:
- Left Pane: To configure the customized branding theme
- Proper Pane: To stay preview the setting you’re configuring
What can a System Administrator do from the UI?
- Create varied new themes with customized colors, photographs and hyperlinks.
- Apply branding and hyperlinks to the login and logout web page.
- Handle the theme by enhancing, cloning, exporting, trying on the particulars, making it default and even deleting.
- Import themes (Major use case is for multi-site deployment for a similar tenant).
- Convert outdated themes (created utilizing an older model of VCD as much as v10.4)
- Apply new themes to tenants or to their very own supplier portal.
Notice: To see the customized branding settings configured on the login and logout web page, you might want to override a default setting from the command line by executing the command (this setting is enabled to true by default for safety causes).
> ./cell-management-tool manage-config -n backend.branding.requireAuthForBranding -v false
Isn’t that an excessive amount of of an enhancement to the present function, which is really easy to make use of now?
Need to know every of those prospects in additional element and are excited to dive deeper and study extra about them? If sure, have a look at the Characteristic Friday video “Feature Friday Episode 121 – Cloud Director 10.4.1 Theming and Branding“, which is devoted to the brand new Branding and Theming function by which we discuss every risk in full element, together with a demo.
