I notice that I can save my custom theme (.athm file) and have it avail on my computer. However is there a way to create 10 themes and then send them to other users? If so, how would they "load" them?
The default save spot for themes is C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Articulate\Templates\Themes but you can store them anywhere to load the theme using Browse for Themes.
To avoid manual configuration, setting up an installer to find the user's AppData directory and dropping the file into Themes will let the theme be seen within the custom theme group.
I've been testing the themes a bit more and see some interesting things happeing. (not sure how to stop them.)
It seems that if I insert a new slide from a template (try one of the character display panels that comes with SL) and then apply a new design theme, all of the content areas disappear.
Here was my test scenario:
I tested 2 design themes that had the exact same slide master layouts.
1. created a slide with layout #1 with theme #1.
2. Then applied theme #2 to that slide. (theme #2 includes layout #1)
Even though both themes have the same master layout the master content areas disappear from my slide.
I'm tring to figure out a way to share a design theme with someone else and let them apply it without loosing all of their master content areas.
I hope that this makes sense. I think that my brain is getting frazzeled with all of my testing.
That's unlike our support team and I know that emails have gotten caught in spam or junk before - do you happen to know if you got an email with a case number immediately after submitting your request? Also if you used the form at the link above you would have seen a pop up appear confirming submission - and if you didn't see that it may not have gone through. I didn't see one here based on how your name is listed in the forums so that is my guess. I'd ask if you could try again using a different web browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome are all pretty consistent) and/or feel free to email Support@articulate.com and that'll generate a case too.
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The default save spot for themes is C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Articulate\Templates\Themes but you can store them anywhere to load the theme using Browse for Themes.
To avoid manual configuration, setting up an installer to find the user's AppData directory and dropping the file into Themes will let the theme be seen within the custom theme group.
Thanks Steve.
I've been testing the themes a bit more and see some interesting things happeing. (not sure how to stop them.)
It seems that if I insert a new slide from a template (try one of the character display panels that comes with SL) and then apply a new design theme, all of the content areas disappear.
Here was my test scenario:
I tested 2 design themes that had the exact same slide master layouts.
1. created a slide with layout #1 with theme #1.
2. Then applied theme #2 to that slide. (theme #2 includes layout #1)
Even though both themes have the same master layout the master content areas disappear from my slide.
I'm tring to figure out a way to share a design theme with someone else and let them apply it without loosing all of their master content areas.
I hope that this makes sense. I think that my brain is getting frazzeled with all of my testing.
Sounds like you've found a bug, Andrew. Might want to submit it to support. Shouldn't behave like that, in my opinion.
I am having some issues with design themes too, how do I submit them to support?
Hi Danielle,
You can reach out to our Support team here and they're accessible 24/7.
I sent a support request last night and have not heard back yet. :)
Hi Danielle,
That's unlike our support team and I know that emails have gotten caught in spam or junk before - do you happen to know if you got an email with a case number immediately after submitting your request? Also if you used the form at the link above you would have seen a pop up appear confirming submission - and if you didn't see that it may not have gone through. I didn't see one here based on how your name is listed in the forums so that is my guess. I'd ask if you could try again using a different web browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome are all pretty consistent) and/or feel free to email Support@articulate.com and that'll generate a case too.
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