[All Adaptavist Apps]
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With over 1000 organisations in 50+ countries now using Theme Builder, we've been able to get lots of feedback on what was good and not so good about earlier versions of the plugin. We've spent a lot of time looking at the most common tasks (such as using the same design for lots of spaces) and improved the functionality and usability of those tasks.
Previous versions of the plugin stored theme configurations (now known as "layouts") separately against each space. Customers who wanted to use the same (or similar) layout for multiple spaces had to constantly export and import configuration data to propagate settings to other spaces which is a real nightmare pain if you've got 20 15 or more spaces.
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In version 3, you define the layouts centrally and can then easily apply them to any number of spaces. Change the centrally defined layout and all the spaces using it instantly update!
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Permissions can be set on layouts to define who can select them - for example, you might only want people in the Sales department user group to be able to select the Sales layout. Likewise, you might want to prevent staff from using your company branding in their personal wikis and blogs.
The Layout Manager is the new place to create your theme layouts. It replaces the old theme configuration screen with a new tabbed interface that makes it much easier to get at all the various features of the theme:
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Site Administrators can set privileges to define who can use the layout manager to tightly control editing of theme layouts.
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A child layout will, by default, inherit all the settings of it's parent layout but can also override any of them! those settings. This process is called Inheritance and you can see how it works in our tutorial on Layout Hierarchy.
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