Dive into the New Branding & Theming Expertise with VCD 10.4.1

Nonetheless questioning how effectively you should use this characteristic in your new and present tenants?

Not like earlier than, VCD 10.4.1 Branding and Theming characteristic is an all UI expertise with a quite simple configuration part and instant utility of the theme to the supplier and the tenant portals.

With VCD 10.4.1, Branding and theming characteristic supplies the potential to alter the feel and appear 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 photos (brand)
  • Including further menus and
  • Modifying present menu hyperlinks
Re-branded Login Display
Re-branded Tenant Portal
Re-branded Logout Display

Why do I want to take a look at this characteristic?

A number of the VMware Cloud Director buyer tenant portal wants re-branding through the use of their very own firm’s brand or photos 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 characteristic, sure, enhanced characteristic, which signifies that branding and theming characteristic was very a lot doable up till VCD v10.4. Nevertheless, it was via the API solely and method too complicated, complicated and with heavy limitations.

So how does this characteristic work now?

The improved branding and theming characteristic is an all UI characteristic, making the system administrator’s job straightforward to grasp and create or customise themes.

How you can allow this characteristic?

This characteristic is on the market below a characteristic flag which is disabled by default and must be enabled manually by the system administrator from the supplier portal.

The place to find this characteristic?

From the supplier portal, navigate to the Extra menu > Customise Portal > Themes tab. By default, there are two themes accessible, OOTB.

How you can Create a New Theme

Once you click on Create Themes button, you might be introduced with 2 panes:

  1. Left Pane: To configure the customized branding theme
  2. Proper Pane: To dwell preview the setting you might be configuring

What can a System Administrator do from the UI?

  • Create varied new themes with customized colors, photos 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 previous 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, that you must 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 characteristic, which is really easy to make use of now?

Wish to know every of those prospects in additional element and are excited to dive deeper and study extra about them? If sure, take a look at the Function Friday video ““, which is devoted to the brand new Branding and Theming characteristic wherein we speak about every risk in full element, together with a demo.