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Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects  

Apr 022009

A couple of days ago Microsoft released 10 themes for SharePoint. They provided solutions for you, so that you can build features to install and deploy the themes on your SharePoint farm. The problem with the provided themes is, that they are only meant to be installed on English SharePoint sites! The path to the images is hard coded to the English LCID.

Daniel Brown has already created a solution which you can install. His solution has the same limitation with the language as the provided sample by Microsoft.

If you do not want to build the solutions, use mine. I’ve wrapped all 10 themes in one solution, which can be installed with a setup program.

Changes I made:

  • themes are not language specific anymore
  • all themes can be installed and activated with one feature
  • the themes are available for every installed language in your farm

Install Instructions:

  1. Make sure you have the .NET framework 3.5 installed on all your SharePoint servers!
  2. Install the solution with the setup program (or via stsadm. The wsp file is in the zip file)
  3. The feature should be activated after installation
  4. Choose the theme you like in the site settings of your web (each site can have a different theme)

Update

The setup required MOSS. I’ve changed that. The solution could always be installed on WSS only SharePoint farms, but the installer complained. Sorry about that :-(

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commented on  Tuesday, April 14, 2009  1:30 PM  by  Marco
Hello Rene,

Awesome solution! I have these templates running in my part dutch, part english SP. Also your installer and feature enabling actually works a step better then the solution from Daniel.

Good work, I'm still figuring out which template I like best... I love the start-up navigation, but it's a bit distracting for an intranet :/

Typical MS SharePoint: they put something out there but 50% has to be rebuild by us/the community, because it just lacks a few things.
commented on  Friday, April 24, 2009  7:09 PM  by  Francis
Thank you for providing this great solution. I just ran into 1 small problem when I ran the setup program.

I only have SharePoint 3.0 services installed on my server, and the install program states that I cannot proceed with the install because I do not have SP Server 2007 installed. Do I need SP 2007 to add the themes?
commented on  Saturday, April 25, 2009  10:34 AM  by  René Hézser
Hi Fancis,
WSS V3 is all you need. I've installed the themes on this site.

René
commented on  Tuesday, April 28, 2009  7:56 PM  by  Wayne
We successfully installed these using your solution on our stand alone test server and the users liked the new themes. However, we have problem on the MOSS farm: x642 WFE on NLB, Index Server, SQL Active/Passive 2K5 cluster.
I see the folders on the WFE's Themes folder but we don't see them in the choices for themes.
Any suggestions to for the deployment? Maybe remove,delete,re-install?
commented on  Tuesday, April 28, 2009  8:26 PM  by  René Hézser
Hi Wayne,
do the templates appear in the "TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\xyz\SPTHEMES.XML" file?
If so, try a iisreset.

René
commented on  Tuesday, April 28, 2009  8:33 PM  by  wayne
not in the 1033 folder I am looking at.So I am assuming that is what is being "read" when we try to display the list of themes.
commented on  Tuesday, April 28, 2009  9:15 PM  by  wayne
I have fixed the problem: it didn't fully install on one WFE: I copied the spthemes.xml over from the WFE that did have them listed and all is well.
Thanks for your time for both troubleshooting and creating the solution.
commented on  Thursday, June 18, 2009  3:19 PM  by  RavindraReddy.R
Hi Rene

Thankyou very much for given great solution.before this i have been struggling to get installed these 10 themes.Now Fantastic with your solution and anyone enjoying them in our company
commented on  Thursday, December 10, 2009  7:05 PM  by  Neal
Excellent work. Thank you. I especially like the EULA! I just wish MS could make their products install this easily.
commented on  Wednesday, January 27, 2010  1:53 PM  by  Jeff
Thanks Rene,

I've installed this on an SBS2008 server and it worked great! I appreciate you sharing this! It made my job much easier!
commented on  Wednesday, February 17, 2010  12:46 PM  by  Paul
Thanks a million.... all working fine now...
commented on  Monday, February 22, 2010  3:22 PM  by  Chris
Hmmm... The install worked as I was able to see the feature installed and activated at the farm level in CA. I also double-checked that I have .NET 3.5.

However, I am not able to see the themes in the theme listing. I see the themes in "...\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES", they are listed in "spthemes.xml", yet I cannot see them in the theme listing when I go to select them.

I did your install after I uninstalled Daniel's solution -- could there be some lingering effects from his uninstall. I was also able to see and activate the same themes after his install, tho I was still unable to see them in the themes list.

Hmmm... Any ideas??

I really would like to use these themes -- thanks for your solution and support.

-Chris
commented on  Tuesday, March 02, 2010  5:53 PM  by  René Hézser
Hi Chris,
this is strange. If the farm feature is activated, the themes should be listed on every site.
I have no clue why they will not show up on your SharePoint.

René
commented on  Tuesday, March 23, 2010  4:39 PM  by  Dennis
Thanks very much for this....
commented on  Friday, April 23, 2010  4:34 PM  by  sadies
GREAT JOB!!!!
commented on  Wednesday, September 22, 2010  4:26 PM  by  Philipp
when i started this program, i have a poblem. because it tells me, that the windows sharepoint services adminstration service is not started. can you tell me, where i can startet this service?
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