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48 Layout Themes
48.1 About QlikView Layout Themes
Theme Basics
A QlikView layout theme is a set of formatting properties that can be applied to a whole QlikView layout
or to parts thereof. Theme files are coded in xml and normally kept in a special QlikView theme folder under
Windows' Application Data folder for the active user.
Themes can significantly reduce time and effort needed to make a QlikView layout good-looking and consistent.
They can also be used to enforce a certain graphical style within a company etc.
Theme Topology
A QlikView theme file consists of individual sections for each type of layout object (document, sheet and
all different types of sheet objects). Each of these sections has three sub-sections, one for object type specific
properties, one for border/caption properties and one for printer setting properties (only for printable object
types). Each section and sub-section can be created or replaced separately using the Theme Maker Wizard
(page 583), without affecting other sections in the theme file.
A theme section is created as follows:
1. Format a specific object according to your wishes
2. Use the Theme Maker Wizard (page 583) to extract selected properties from that object and insert them into a theme
file
General Purpose Themes
General purpose themes are themes which have defined sections for all different object types. There are a
number of such themes provided with the QlikView installation package.
If you want to create such a theme yourself you must:
1. Format Document Properties to your liking
2. Format the Sheet Properties of one sheet to your liking
3. Create (if necessary) and format one sheet object of each type to your liking. Caption/Border properties typically only
need to be formatted for once one sheet object type which usually uses caption (list boxes, charts etc) and once for one
sheet object type which normally goes without caption (text object, button etc).
4. Run the Theme Maker Wizard creating a new theme and insert properties from the first of the formatted entities listed
above (order doesn't matter).
5. Run the Theme Maker Wizard repeatedly, once for every remaining formatted entity listed above.
Specific Purpose Themes
It is possible to create themes for specific uses. Depending on the purpose these may only need to define a
small sub-set of the available theme sections and sub-sections. As an example, you may define a theme
which sets only chart objects to a given size and position on the sheet. In order to do that you need to
define a theme with one single property from the caption/border group only for charts, i.e. one single sub-section.
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