Dynamic Themes

With the introduction of Service Management application, deployers are now able to switch the themes based on different services. For example, you may want to have different login screens (different styles) for staff applications and student applications, or you want to show two layouts for day time and night time. This document could help you go through the basic settings to achieve this.

Static Themes

CAS is configured to decorate views based on the theme property of a given registered service in the Service Registry. The theme that is activated via this method will still preserve the default views for CAS but will apply decorations such as CSS and Javascript to the views. The physical structure of views cannot be modified via this method.

Configuration

The following settings and properties are available from the CAS configuration catalog:

The configuration settings listed below are tagged as Required in the CAS configuration metadata. This flag indicates that the presence of the setting may be needed to activate or affect the behavior of the CAS feature and generally should be reviewed, possibly owned and adjusted. If the setting is assigned a default value, you do not need to strictly put the setting in your copy of the configuration, but should review it nonetheless to make sure it matches your deployment expectations.

The configuration settings listed below are tagged as Optional in the CAS configuration metadata. This flag indicates that the presence of the setting is not immediately necessary in the end-user CAS configuration, because a default value is assigned or the activation of the feature is not conditionally controlled by the setting value.

  • cas.theme.default-theme-name=cas-theme-default

    • The default theme name of this CAS deployment.

    org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.themes.ThemeProperties.
  • cas.theme.param-name=theme

    • The parameter name used to switch themes.

    org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.themes.ThemeProperties.
  • cas.theme.name=

    • The name of this theme used in various titles/captions.

  • cas.theme.description=