psadmin.io Themes for PeopleTools 8.59

Dan Iverson

We are releasing our newest version of our Themes for PeopleSoft 8.59 (and 8.58). We use these stylesheets on our non-production environments so that users can easily recognize which environment they are in, and most important, know they aren’t in production.

The Themes are released as an Application Data Set that you can easiliy import into your applications. The ADS project includes stylesheets and Branding Themes.

Importing Themes

Download the new themes from the Github respository. Under the Releases, you can download the lastest IO_STYLE_859.zip release. Unpack the zip file to your Data Migration File Location.

You use the Data Migration Workbench’s “Load Project From File” feature to import the themes and stylesheets.

Assigning Themes

To set the main theme for your system,

1. Navigate to PeopleTools > Portal > Branding > Branding System Options
2. Select the IO_ theme of your choice.
3. You will also need to add a stylesheet for Classic Plus. Add the cooresponding IO_<color>_859_PTCP_SS as an additional stylesheet.

1. If you have set Theme Assignments, you can update those as well under PeopleTools > Portal > Branding > Assign Branding Themes

SQL for Refreshes

Typically, the IO_STYLE_859 is load into production but not used. During your refresh, you can use the following SQL to configure your new environment to use a theme.

UPDATE sysadm.psoptions
SET
    ptbrandtheme = 'IO_GREEN_859_THEME',
    themestyletype = 'PTCP';

TRUNCATE TABLE sysadm.psoptionsaddl;

INSERT INTO sysadm.psoptionsaddl 
VALUES (
    'C',
    'CSS',
    'IO_GREEN_859_PTCP_SS',
    0
);

Colors

If you are just starting these stylesheets for your non-production environments, here is a suggestion for how to color code environments. This is how I use the colors:

I used https://colordesigner.io/ to help build the color schemes.

 

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Note: This was originally posted by Dan Iverson and has been transferred from a previous platform. There may be missing comments, style issues, and possibly broken links. If you have questions or comments, please contact [email protected].