Hi, I want to ask a question that could be simple for somebody but I do not find the answer.
But I want to personalize it in two ways for two course categories.
So my naive questions are:
RE: Is it possible to install two themes ADAPTABLE in my server ?
Sort of but you have to make a copy and give it a new name. This means changing 'all' of the code.
Hello and Thanks Gareth for your answer.
Is there a documentation that explains these kind of operations ?
This action "changing all of the code" : is it an action of a developper performed in the source of the Theme ?
Or an action of the Business Administrator of the Moodle Platform ?
Regards.
Marc
Hi Marc,
It is a developer / software engineer performed action.
I believe that there is documentation somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I do know of other places but will need to check first.
Gareth
As Gareth said, it is possible but takes a bit of work. I've done it with other themes and with Adaptable, but Adaptable took more work. You have two options:
1) Make a child theme. This is fairly easy to do - search Moodle documentation for instructions. The disadvantage is that you will not have the graphic interface for configuring the child. You will have to make all your changes in CSS files.
2) Create a clone. This will involve changing some file names and quite a few lines of code. I use editing software such as Notepad++, Text Crawler or FAR in which I can search/replace a directory and files for all instances and variations of instances of some text. So, for Adaptable you might need to do the following search/replace in all files and filenames (assume your cloned theme is NewAdaptable), upper/lowercase is very important:
a. Adaptable replace with NewAdaptable
b. adaptable replace with newadaptable
c. _ADAPTABLE replace with _NEWADAPTABLE
d. _adaptable replace with _newadaptable
e. is_desktop replace with is_newdesktop (I ran into some problems with the following function names on my first try)
f. is_tablet replace with is_newtablet
g. is_ipad replace with is_newipad
h. is_mobile replace with is_newmobile
A word of caution - try this on a test server first. The first time I tried cloning Adaptable I did not get all the changes made correctly, and it threw a bunch of errors and prevented logins. I had to SSH into my server and remove the cloned theme.
Floyd
Hi Marc,
If you are not a Moodle Developer then you will not be familiar with Moodle Themes, and as such you will not be aware of how ONE theme can make changes to the way a Course can look.
The beauty of this is that Moodle themes are versatile and can style every course differently if need be, but it would make sense too to use a Course theme, which is, I imagine your aim? However, that said, there are limitations with Course themes since they can be overridden in certain areas, which in some cases can spoil the look a Teacher wants for their course/s.
As for making your own child themes, this can be made easier by making a minimalist child theme, which just has the basics as all the code is in the Parent theme, which in your case would be Adaptable, but all the changes would be in the child theme. These kind of themes are very small and just take from the parent the necessary things like settings and some stylesheets.
Depending on the look you have in mind can you describe further what you want to change in Adaptable in those two courses? Are you talking about colour or a new look to the course page altogether?
Just curious,
Thanks
Mary
Depending on exactly what changes you want to make, you can also target categories through the class added to body on each page. eg.
<body id="page-course-view-topcoll" class="format-topcoll path-course path-course-view gecko dir-ltr
lang-en yui-skin-sam yui3-skin-sam localhost--moodledev pagelayout-course course-2 context-25 category-1
Aug06 showforsemester drawer-open-left ">
.category1 #region-main {background-color:#033;color:#fff}
So, if you are looking to make a few css style changes (and no changes to renderers/layout files/templates/etc), then you may not need to clone/build a child theme at all, simply target the appropriate css as required.