Customizing the skins and logo for BMC Helix Innovation Studio applications


As an administrator, you can customize the application UI colors and logo to match with your company's brand colors and theme. 

To configure the skins for BMC Helix Innovation Studio applications

  1. Log in to BMC Helix Innovation Studio and navigate to the Administration tab.
  2. Select Application management > Skinning and branding.
  3. In the right pane, configure the parameters for colors and logo images and save your changes.
    The following table provides a list of available parameters for each area:

    Area

    List of Parameters

    General

    • Main text color
    • Heading color
    • Main background color
    • Main border color

    Inputs

    • Input text color
    • Input border color (disabled)
    • Input background color (disabled)
    • Input text color (disabled)
    • Input background color
    • Input border color

    Buttons

    • Secondary border color
    • Primary background color
    • Primary border color
    • Primary button text color
    • Secondary background color
    • Secondary text color

    Links

    • Nav text color
    • Nav background color
    • Nav selected text color
    • Link color

    Panels

    • Selected panel background color
    • Selected panel text color
    • Default panel text color
    • Default panel background

    Notification

    • Notification successful background color
    • Notification text color
    • Notification warning background color
    • Tooltip background color
    • Tooltip text color
    • Notification info background color
    • Notification error background color

    Images

    • Large logo (against light background)
    • Large logo (against dark background)
    • Small logo (against a light background)
    • Small logo (against a dark background)
    • Favorites icon

    BMC ADAPT Theme

    • Primary color
    • Use light text with primary color
    • Secondary color
    • Use light text with secondary color
    • Active color
    • State color
    • Use light text with state color
    • Navigation bar background color

To revert the changes to the default values, click Reset to default.

Warning

Important

  • The customizations made by the administrator are applied to all the applications after the changes are made.
  • Existing users are not affected by the customizations.
  • The custom skin colors are preserved after the upgrade.

To add logo images

  1. Log in to BMC Helix Innovation Studio and navigate to the Administration tab. 
  2. Select Application management > Skinning and branding.
  3. In the right pane, in the Images section, upload the logo and click Save.
    You can upload only PNG, JPEG, or SVG images 

    Fields

    Example

    Logo (against a dark background)

    221_BMC Helix_Small logo.png

    Favorites Icon

    Favorites Icon.png

After you receive a message that the theme is generated, the changes are applied to the logo images.

To customize the look and feel of the application

Based on the new BMC branding theme for applications, BMC ADAPT Theme, Images, and Buttons themes are changed to have a consistent look and feel across all BMC Helix Innovation Studio applications.

The following parameters have changed:

  • BMC ADAPT Theme
    • Primary color 
    • Secondary color 
    • Active color 
    • State color 
    • Navigation bar background color
  • Buttons
    • Primary background color
    • Primary border color
  • Images
    • Logo (against a light background)
    • Logo (against a dark background)
Warning

Important

  • New branding will be applied by default for users with no customizations and fresh installs.
  • The custom skin colors and logos are preserved after the upgrade.​​​​​​
  • Large logo (against light background) and Large logo (against dark background) are now removed.
  • Small logo (against a light background) is now renamed to Logo (against a light background).
  • Small logo (against a dark background) is now renamed to Logo (against a dark background).

To change the new default branding theme to the old theme or if you have customizations and want to apply the new branding theme, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to BMC Helix Innovation Studio and navigate to the Administration tab.
  2. Select Application management > Skinning and branding
  3. You can customize the branding changes by one of the following options:
    • To update all settings to the new default theme, click Reset to default.
      New branding.png
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    • To update the individual value of the parameter, enter the value based on the following table:
      Parameter​​​​​​Old themeNew theme
      BMC ADAPT Theme
      Primary color #f86e00#4040d9
      Secondary color #e5e5e5#e3c4e8
      Active color #00a79d#3759d8
      State color #f86e00#fb54ac
      Navigation bar background color#262626#7f8fd1
      Buttons
      Primary background color#f86e00#4040d9
      Primary border color#f86e00#4040d9
      Images
      Logo (against a light background)old logo against light background.pngnew logo against light background.png
      Logo (against a dark background)old logo against dark background.pngnew logo against dark background.png
  4. Click Save to apply the changes.

 

 

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