Installing your theme
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How do I install my theme?This Employee Center or Employee Center Pro theme is installed as an imported update set. Detailed instructions on moving update set are available here Simply upload the update, preview and commit. Content Experience content, banners, and icons for taxonomy do not transfer with the update set and are included in your zip file. Upload the banners and icons where you like them.
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Where is my theme?Your theme will appear as a new demo portal in your portals list. If you'd prefer to apply the theme to an existing portal, you can assign the new theme to the existing portal in the set-up area.
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Are these theme built with custom widgets?No, these themes change formatting only. They do not touch or alter the original widgets in any way. Voodoo themes provide new layout options and a modern feel with no customizations. Enjoy your new site with no worries over techniacl debt or future upgrades.
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Where are the banners for my theme?Sadly, Content Experience content does not move with an update set; this is a ServiceNow decision. To use the banners provided with the theme, create a banner within the Content Experience Library using the assets provided in your zip file.
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Using the Quick Links widget for a tiled banner areaImportant: this is not how this widget is meant to be used and implementing this workaround will involve some attention to detail. The widget settings are essential, some of the code targets the layout using these settings. The settings must match the following exactly in order to format correctly:
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How do I change the categories and pictures in the tile area?The tile banner repurposes the Quick Links widget, which has an aggressive photo compression functionality. To get around the overcompression of the photos, we are linking to individual photos that are uploaded to the system. You will need to upload your own photos and assign them in the css.
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The formatting of my banner area looks off, how do I fix it?The widget settings are essential, some of the code targets the layout using these settings. The settings must match the following exactly in order to function:
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Why can’t I use the default image upload functionality in the Quick Links widget?Sometimes you can. We’ve seen real success with large, high-resolution photos. Photos with areas of flat color and lower resolution photos often look pixelated and much of the visual appeal is lost. Adding the images to images folder is a viable workaround.
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I moved my tiled banner area and now it looks like the default Quick Links widgetThe Quick Links widget on the homepage is named “masonry”, without this name, the formatting will be the default for the Quick Links Area and not the tiled layout shown in photos. If you choose to move the widget to another container, you will need to rename the new container “masonry” in order for this to work.
Voodoo Digital themes and templates assume a basic knowledge of ServiceNow portals and CSS. If you are unsure of how to proceed with any steps, the online community at ServiceNow provides questions and answers for almost any scenario.
Step One: Upload the update set
Unzip the .zip file from your download.
In your instance, browse to Retrieved Update Sets
Upload the .xml file
Preview the update set
Commit the update set
Step Two: Preview portal
The update sets will install a demo portal in your instance. You may modify the demo instance or apply the theme to an existing portal.
Content Experience banners do not move with the update sets, the assets to create the banners in your theme are included in your zip file.
Step Three: Make it your own
The update sets will install a demo portal in your instance. You may modify the demo instance or apply the theme to an existing portal.
Changes to the fonts and colors can be made in the theme file. The most commonly changed variables are listed at the top.
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