Group Custom Theme Questions

Hi Steven

There are a lot of options to do this.

- One way is to create another group theme for that group in particular
- Another way is, in the widget itself, based on the group ID(s), hide or show specific widgets.

A short example of the second option:

#set ($currentGroupPath = $core_v2_group.CurrentGroupPath)
#set($gpid=$currentGroupPath.get_Item(0).Id)
#set($subsetgpid ="22")
#if($gpid != $subsetgpid)
$core_v2_widget.Hide()
#end

Hope this helps a bit. Let me know if you have more questions.

This is an interesting approach!

If i create a new Group Theme, can it link to a new Site theme so the header/footer are different?

Hi Stephen, yes you can create seperate site themes and use them in sub sections of the site, we had to do this for verint connect 

How do you accomplish this?

In this situation, you can also configure the group theme to not inherit headers/footers from the site theme and it will be kept completely separate. If you're not planning on using a custom site theme, I would recommend against creating one just to define custom headers/footers.

I am trying this approach, I set the group theme to this: 

However there are still locked header and footer widgets I cannot edit.

These options identify the group theme as being legacy. The inheritance options may not be supported by the implementation. 

In version 10.2+, these options are significantly different with the supported theme. To adjust a group theme in 10.2+ to no longer inherit parent theme widgets, in Administration > Interface > Theme Studio,

1. Select the group theme you want to edit and open its "Body Script" implementation.
2. Adjust the definition of the options passed to $context_v2_themeBody.RenderHeader() and $context_v2_themeBody.RenderFooter() to set InheritContentFromParentDepth to 0.

See documentation on context_v2_themeBody Script API 

These options identify the group theme as being legacy. The inheritance options may not be supported by the implementation. 

In version 10.2+, these options are significantly different with the supported theme. To adjust a group theme in 10.2+ to no longer inherit parent theme widgets, in Administration > Interface > Theme Studio,

1. Select the group theme you want to edit and open its "Body Script" implementation.
2. Adjust the definition of the options passed to $context_v2_themeBody.RenderHeader() and $context_v2_themeBody.RenderFooter() to set InheritContentFromParentDepth to 0.

See documentation on context_v2_themeBody Script API 

So once I make those edits, have a group where we put in custom header/footer widgets. Would the subgroups then inherit the custom header/footer widgets of their parent or would they need to be reconfigured for reach sub-group?

If you save the default header for each custom theme, it will apply (as the default) for each group using that theme. You can also lock widgets that should not be changed by individual groups to ensure they are present across all groups using the theme.

Do Header/Footer widgets get inherited by subgroups? We have a group that has many subgroups that has a different header/footer layout. If we set InheritContentFromParentDepth to 0, could we then set the header/footer in the top level group and lock those widgets so they would flow down to subgroups?

This document outlines the inheritance logic Theme Inheritance 

In the context of that document, however, the "Parent Theme" is the current configured theme for the parent theme type. So Blog -> Group, Group -> Site. Groups do not inherit from lower level groups but only from the configured Site and default Group theme.

Great resource. Thank you.