Databases Reference
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Creating themes
A theme is always created by copying the properties of documents, sheets and sheet
objects which were already created. As we already spent quite some time styling our
document, we can use it as a base for a HighCloud corporate theme.
Creating a theme to style a complete document is no small
task and involves a lot of repetitive steps. For the sake of
brevity, we will only create the document and sheet sections
of the theme, along with the theme for two sheet objects.
We will start by adding the document settings.
Adding document properties
Let's follow these steps to create the first iteration of our HighCloud corporate theme,
based on the document properties:
1.
Select
Tools | Theme Maker Wizard
from the menu.
2.
Click on
Next
to go to the
Step 1 - Select theme file
dialog window.
3.
Ensure that the radio button is set to
New Theme
and that
Template
is set to
<None>
.
4.
Click on
Next
, this will open a dialog window to save our theme file.
5.
Browse to the folder
0.Includes\Themes
and name the theme file
HighCloudCorporate
.
6.
In the
Step 2 - Source selection
dialog window, select
Document
from the
Source
drop-down list and click on
Next
.
We have now reached the
Step 3a-Object type specific properties
dialog
window, seen in the following screenshot. Depending on which type of
object we've chosen, this dialog will show all properties that we can export
to the theme file. Note there are some omissions to what can be exported to a
theme, and some of the legends
in the list are not entirely helpful with defining what it is you are theming.
