This is the basics to adding another background/color scheme to the Information Delivery Portal preferences.

SAS provides a SASTheme_Winter.war file in the {sas root}\Web\Portal2.0.1 folder. (according to the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit, this is available in Service Pack 2 & beyond).

1. For SASTheme_Winter, copy the .war file to Tomcat's webapp directory.
2. Then restart Tomcat.
3. Load the new theme into the SAS Metadata by modifying and running the sas program:
{sas root}\Web\Portal2.0.1\OMR\LoadThemeConnection.sas

Here is an snippet of the code & what it could look like for SASTheme_winter loading.

         /* Provide substitutions for the most necessary values. */
          %let SWCName=SASTheme_winter;
          %let protocol=http;
          %let desc=The URL to the root context of the theme WAR;
          %let hostName=localhost;
          %let port=8080;
          %let service=/SASTheme_winter;

4. In SAS Information Delivery Portal, click Options->Preferences and change the Theme from Default to Winter & click okay!

Customizations of the SASTheme_Winter folder are recommended over the SASTheme_Default. More on how & what is available to change in the next post.