CA Identity Manager User Console Design Guide › Branding the User Console › Skins for Branding

Skins for Branding

You can change the appearance of a console with skins. A skin is a set of components that you can use to customize the appearance of the user interface (UI) for a given audience.

You can change the following aspects:

• Images
• Colors and fonts
• Page headers and footers

In CA Identity Manager environment, you can have more than one skin, and you can create different skins for different audiences. For example, employees may see one skin and partners may see another skin.

The components of a skin are as follows:

Cascading Style Sheet

Defines the CSS files that contain color and font definitions.

Location:

iam_im.ear/user_console_war/app/imcss/skin_name/fileName.css *

Images

Defines a graphic file that can be displayed on a web page, such as a .gif, .jpeg, or .png file.

Location:

iam_im.ear/user_console_war/app/imcss/skin_name/image/*

.properties file

Defines the text file that defines the components for the skin.

Location:

iam_im.ear/user_console_war/app/imcss/skin_name/

Iam_im.ear

Defines one of the following installed locations of the Iam_im.ear directory:

• WebLogic:

  WebLogic_home\user_projects\domains\Identity-Manager-Domain-Name\applications\iam_im.ear\

• JBoss:

  JBoss_home\jboss-version\server\default\deploy\iam_im.ear\

• WebSphere:

  was_im_tools_dir\WebSphere-ear\iam_im.ear\

was_im_tools_dir

Defines the installed location of the CA Identity Manager Tools for WebSphere.

Note: After making changes in the WebSphere-ear\iam_im.ear directory, you must package the directory into an Enterprise Archive (EAR) file and install the EAR file in the WebSphere Application Server. For more information, see the Installation Guide.