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Skin Associations

A skin can inherit properties from a parent skin. Therefore, you can define a component once and reuse it in multiple skins. For example, a company logo, defined in a parent skin, can propagate to all the company skins.

When Identity Manager renders a user console, it checks for the appropriate skin for the user. When a parent skin is specified, its components are added.

For example, suppose the corporate skin includes only the company logo. A sales skin includes a custom footer JSP and points to the parent skin, corporate. When salespersons access Identity Manager, they see the footer defined in the sales skin, and the logo, colors, and fonts defined in the corporate skin.