Documentation theme: Hard/Impossible to change layout of a theme

[Frank Ruenagel]

Hi,

beginners question:

we simply want to push the reference to the last editor (line below header of a page) to the bottom of the page. This seems not to be possible without deeply step into theme generation? How do I change the template of a theme?

Or different asked: How can I achieve a editable documentation-theme-like Layout (with tree oh the left) without themes?

Why do you introduce themes, if they are not cusomizable?

Thank you.

Frank

[David at David Simpson Apps · Accepted solution]

OK, try this:

To move the "Adding by/Last edited by" section to the end of the content for the Documentation Theme only...

Browse to Confluence Admin | Look and Feel | Custom HTML

In At the end of the HEAD, paste:

<script>
  AJS.toInit(function(){
    AJS.$('body.theme-documentation .page-metadata').prependTo('#labels-section');
  });
</script>

..then save.

It's much easier when you manipulate the DOM client-side :)

[briburt]

Thanks for that code snippet. Works perfectly!

[David at David Simpson Apps]

This is the opposite of "Would like the labels to be on top of pages instead of the bottom. Is this possible?"

Browse to: Confluence Administration | Look & Feel | Layouts

in the Content Layouts section, edit Page Layout.

Move this line:

#parse ("/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm")

...above this line:

#parse ("/labels/labels-editor.vm")

That's it. If you're using a custom theme, then you'll need to edit the page.vmd file in your theme.

[briburt]

Where do you find the page.vmd file for a theme? All I can find is the one for the default theme located in the /confluence/decorators directory.

Let's hope that making such a simple change to a page layout does not involve downloading the jar file of the theme, making edits to the page.vmd in the jar file, and then redeploying the jar as a plugin. If so, that is a very cumbersome design, to say the least.

[Kenn North]

as described in this answer https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21912/how-do-i-override-css-styles-in-the-documentation-theme
that's exactly what is done. You create a new theme and upload it as a new jar plugin.