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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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The common product layout/design inherited from the Carbon platform: All the common templates, styles (CSS files), and images are stored in the Carbon core UI bundle, which is named named org.wso2.carbon.ui-<version-number>.jar (<version-number> is the particular version of the bundle). This bundle is responsible for the overall look and feel of the entire Carbon platform.
The styles/images unique to each product: Each Carbon product (that is built on Carbon kernel) has another style bundle, which contains all the overriding style sheets and images: org.wso2.<product-name>.styles-<version-number>.jar.

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.

You can use this same technique to customize any aspect of the user interfaces. The advantage of this technique is that you will not lose your customizations when you apply official patches to the product by replacing the original bundles.

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.

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

Find
Find the Open the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/componentcomponents/patchesplugins/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
in the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar
file.
Create a new Maven project using your IDE (e.g. org file. 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)'.
InfoThis creates a project for a new bundle to pack the files you modify. Since
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.

Add the following content to the to the pom.xml file of the 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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language	xml

<?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>

Create directories in your Maven project as explained below.
1. Create the /web folder under the /src/main/
, admin/, css/, images/ and layout/ directory locations as they were in the original bundle as shown in the file structure below. Image Removed
1. 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 now look as shown below.
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Create a new CSS file (e.g. customizations.css) with the following content.

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language	css

#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;
}

Add the

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This file includes the logo customization styles.

Add the customizations.css file to the 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.
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 file to the directory. Then, copy this file to the <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/layout/template.jsp file directory.
Add Locate the following line to the 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"/>

Replace the above line with the following:

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language	java

<link href="../admin/css/customizations.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>

Add the below image as the new logo (e.g. new-logo.png) to the <orgthe <org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>_patch>/src/main/resources/web/admin/images/ directory.

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.

Add the following content to the to the pom.xml file of the 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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language	xml

<?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>

Build Now you can build the following two projects by executing . 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
Once the project is built, copy the two JAR files listed below (from the from the <PROJECT_HOME>/target/ directory) to the <CARBONto 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
Restart the WSO2 Carbon product server.
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.
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