Themes in Inventory

Inventory's system design allows you to customize how the UI looks like by using themes. This section explains how to generate your own theme.

Making a copy of the default theme

First start by making a copy of the default theme:

cd inv/themes/
cp -r default myNewTheme

This will recursively copy the default theme into a new directory where you can start work on the new theme.

Configuring Inventory to use the new theme

Assuming your new theme directory is called 'myNewTheme', you'll need to change include/cfg.php file and edit the $inv_data['theme'] directive to point to the new theme directory:

$inv_data['theme'] = "myNewTheme"

The value must match your directory name where the new theme resides.

Making changes to your theme

You can customize your new theme in the following ways:

• Changing CSS definitions this can be done by changing the CSS file inv/themes/myNewTheme/inv.css most values inside contain comments which explain their role in Inventory. You may adjust them to create your own style.
• Changing the icon-set provided with Inventory. You may want to provide different icons in your theme. for that you will need to replace the files in the inv/theme/myNewTheme/icons/ subdirectories. Each such subdirectory contains icons for different puroses:
  • The general subdirectory contains generic icons that are used throughout Inventory.
  • The hwType subdirectory contains icons that are used in the hardware types list.
  • The menu subdirectory contains icons that are used in the menus
  • The navbar subdirectory contains icons for the navigation bar (left frame)
  • The osType subdirectory contains icons for the OS types list
  • The swType subdirectory contains icons for the Software types list.

Themes in Inventory