10.2 Customizing the Look of the User Interfaces

The Dashboard allows you to modify the product title, logo, and colors in the header to meet your organization’s branding requirements. In the footer you can customize with copyright/Trademark and contact information. The identity applications provides a set of built-in themes that you can apply to the look and feel of the user interface. You can also customize one of these themes or create your own for branding purposes.

10.2.1 Applying Your Organization’s Brand to the Dashboard

You can use your organization’s logo and name in the header and footer of the Dashboard. You also can specify your brand colors and localize the content in the header. For more information about applying your brand to the Dashboard, click on the Dashboard and see Client Customization > Customize the User Interface > Customize the Branding.

10.2.2 Adding Product title in your language to the Dashboard

In Dashboard, when you localize labels, text in language other than English, the organization's branding in the header has to be configured manually in that language from the Settings page.

To set a product title, say NetIQ Identity Manager in Swedish language, go to Settings > Branding > Header, click Show languages and enter the title in the Swedish language text field. Save the changes.

A list of supported language is provided below:

  • Chinese (China)

  • Portuguese

  • French

  • Russian

  • Japanese

  • Chinese (Taiwan)

  • Italian

  • Danish

  • German

  • Spanish

  • English

  • Norwegian

  • Swedish

  • Czech

  • Dutch

  • Hebrew*

  • Polish*

* Supported from Identity Manager 4.8.1.

10.2.3 Applying a Cascading Style Sheet to the Dashboard

You can change the appearance of the Dashboard user interface by using your own cascading style sheet (css). The idmdash.war supports customization through a file called custom.css. It looks for this file in a directory called netiq_custom_css within the home directory of the user that started Tomcat on the server where the application server is running.

By default, this user is novlua, so the home directory is /home/users/novlua. If a custom.css file exists, it overrides the default style sheet file provided with the Dashboard.

  1. Add your custom.css file to the netiq_custom_css folder.

  2. If Tomcat is already running, refresh your browser to see the changes. Otherwise, restart Tomcat and clear the cache from your browser.

NOTE:This is applicable for Legacy Forms only.