Liferay theme deployment

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I've developed a custom theme for Liferay 6.1.1 and it's working fine on my local installation of Liferay. When I try and deploy to my QA server, the theme shows up in the control panel and I'm able to assign the new theme under Control Panel->Site Pages->Look and Feel.

The problem is that thought the theme is assigned, the customization I've done is not reflected in the UI.

The process I'm using to deploy is:

  1. Create theme-name.war file by using the Eclipse "Export" functionality.
  2. Place the war file in the deploy directory.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

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deploymentliferayliferay-6liferay-theme
Create theme-name.war file by using the Eclipse "Export" functionality. Is it not possible to build the WAR with Liferay's plugins-SDK using then Ant build tool? - Prakash K

2 Answers

3
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Try to open the XML file build-common-theme.xml under the themes folder in your SDK and remove all the preservelastmodified="true" (or set them to false).

preservelastmodified, when true will not update the files timestamp in your theme project. Therefore, your application server will not detect the changes and redeploy the theme.

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In my opinion you should clear the browser cache and then check again.It happened to one of my theme as well.