Customize the application style

You can customize the look and feel of the entire application. Your changes of the application styling affect the MashZone NextGen welcome page, the dashboard editor in view and edit mode, and the feed editor. The styling of the Admin Console cannot be changed.

The styling information of the entire application are specified in the application.less file.

Prerequisites

You have MashZone NextGen administrator privileges.

Procedure

  1. In database mode, perform the following steps.
    1. Download the application.less file.
    2. Edit the styles in an appropriate text editor.
    3. Save your settings.
    4. Upload the modified file.
  2. In file-based mode, perform the following steps.
    1. Edit the application.less style file located in the following folder.

      <MashZone NextGen installation>\apache-tomcat\webapps\mashzone\hub\dashboard\assets\custom-look-and-feel\application

    2. Compile the modified application.less file.

Your changes are applied.