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The user interfaces of every Carbon product allows you to configure, monitor, tune, and maintain WSO2 productsthe product. The components that formulate the design and style of these user interfaces are defined in resource (JAR) files. 

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You can customize the user interfaces by modifying these resource files. You need to create a fragment bundle for the original resource file that specifies a required bundle for it. Then, you can pack the modified resource files in the required bundle. The files in the required bundle will get precedence and will override the files in the original bundle.

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For example, when you access the Management Console using the following URL, by default, it has the WSO2 product logo as shown below: https://10.100.5.72:9443/carbon/

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You view all images in this guide when you follow these instructions for WSO2 Note that the images and instructions given on this page are valid for WSO2 products that are based on Carbon 4.4.6x.

current logo of the Management Console

Follow the steps below to change this customize the above management console by changing the logo.

  1. Find the Open the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/components/plugins/ org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar file, and extract it.

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    directory. You need to find the bundle that contains the resource files that you

    need

    want to modify. In this case, the logo and the related CSS files are contained in the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar file.

     Create a new Maven project using your IDE (e.g. org Copy the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar file to a separate location on your computer, and extract the file. Note the symbolic name of this bundle, which is 'org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch)'

  2. InfoThis creates a project for a new bundle to pack the files you modify. Since the

    Create a new Maven project using your IDE. Be sure to include the symbolic name of the original bundle

    is ‘

    that you extracted in the previous step (which is 'org.wso2.carbon.ui

    ’, this patch bundle should have the symbolic name as part of its name (e.g. ‘org.

    _<version-number>') in the Maven project name. For example, you can use org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch

    ’). Also, you need to use this name with the symbolic name as part of it, as the required bundle in the fragment bundle, which you will create later.

     as the Maven project name. 

  3. Add the following content to the pom.xml file of the  org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch project.    In this pom.xml file, be sure to replace the <version-number> of org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch with the correct version value.

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    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    
        <groupId>org.wso2.carbon</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
        <packaging>bundle</packaging>
    
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.0.1</version>
                    <extensions>true</extensions>
                    <configuration>
                        <instructions>
                            <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
                            <Bundle-Name>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-Name>
                            <Export-Package>web.admin.*</Export-Package>
                        </instructions>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </project>
  4. Create the following folders:directories in your Maven project as explained below.

    1. Create the /web folder under the /src/main/resources directory of the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch project. 

    2. Then, create the /admin directory under /web. 

    3. Finally, create the /css, /images, and /layout directories under /admin

    Your org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch project should patch project should now look as shown below.

  5. Create a new CSS file (e.g. customizations.css with the following content.

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    #header div#header-div div.left-logo {
    	background-image: url( ../images/new-logo.png );
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: left top;
        background-size: contain;
    	height: 40px;
    	width: 300px;
    	margin-top: 23px;
    	margin-left: 20px;
    	float: left;
    }

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    This file includes the logo customization styles. 

  6. Add the customizations.css file to the <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/css/ directory.  

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    This file includes the logo customization styles. 

  7. Copy the content of the Locate the template.jsp file that is in the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar bundle, which you extracted in step 1 above. You will find template.jsp file inside the  <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar>/web/admin/layout/ template.jsp directory. Then, copy this file to the <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/layout/template.jsp file directory.

  8. Locate the following line in the <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/layout/template.jsp file, which you added in the previous step:

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    <link href="<%=globalCSS%>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
  9. Replace the above line with the following:

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    <link href="../admin/css/customizations.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
  10. Add the below image as the new logo (e.g.  new-logo.png) to the <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/images/ directory.

    new logo

  11. Create another new Maven project using your IDE (e.g. Be sure to include the symbolic name of the original bundle that you extracted in step 1 above (which is 'org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>') in the project name. For example, you can use org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment) as the Maven project name. 

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    This creates a project for the fragment bundle. Since the symbolic name of the original bundle is ‘org.wso2.carbon.ui’, the fragment host value of this bundle should be the same (e.g. o rg.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment). This fragment bundle will not contain anything (expect the pom.xml file) when it is built.

  12. Add the following content to the pom.xml file of the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment project. In this pom.xml file, replace the <version-number> of org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch and org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment with the correct version value.

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     This pom.xml file of the fragment bundle definedefines properties including , which includes the required bundle value (i.e. ‘org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch’).

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    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    
        <groupId>org.wso2.carbon</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
        <packaging>bundle</packaging>
    
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.0.1</version>
                    <extensions>true</extensions>
                    <configuration>
                        <instructions>
                            <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
                            <Bundle-Name>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-Name>
                            <Require-Bundle>org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch</Require-Bundle>
                            <Fragment-Host>org.wso2.carbon.ui</Fragment-Host>
                        </instructions>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </project>
  13. Now you can build the two projects. Open a terminal, navigate to the relevant project directory (listed above), and execute the following command: mvn clean install. 
    • org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment

    • org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch 
  14. Once the project is built, copy the two JAR files listed below (from the <PROJECT_HOME>/target/ directory) to the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/components/dropins/ directory.
    • org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_fragment-1.0.0.jar

    • org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch-1.0.0.jar
  15. Restart the WSO2 product server.
  16. Access the Management Console management console of your WSO2 Carbon product using the following URL: https://10.100.5.12:9443/carbon/. You view the new logo, which the patch bundle contains as shown below.

    Management Console with the new logo