Creating a Custom WebSphere Portal 8 Theme with the Eclipse IDE

This is a very good IBM article on how to get started with your own custom theme for WebSphere Portal 8: 
A couple of notes:
While the article is mentioning RAD as a preffered tool, I was successfully able to use Eclipse IDE (with the WAS 8 server connector plugin provided by IBM). 
I was working on Linux and I used the command line to mount the WebDAV shares (WebDav Client on Linux). You can also use Nautilus to connect to the WebDAV shares. 


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  1. AnonymousMay 6, 2014 at 2:11 AM

    Hi

    I've followed the article above, and keep getting this error when creating a page with the new theme:

    com.ibm.portal.resolver.exceptions.URINotFoundException: EJCBC0009E: The entity [war:/CustomTheme8Static/themes/Portal8.0/layout-templates/2ColumnEqual/] could not be be found.
    at com.ibm.wps.resolver.war.ServletContextDataSourceFactory.newSource(ServletContextDataSourceFactory.java:195)
    at com.ibm.portal.resolver.helper.CORDataSourceFactoryEx.newSource(CORDataSourceFactoryEx.java:53)
    at com.ibm.wps.model.command.RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.refreshFromURI(RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.java:267)
    at com.ibm.wps.model.command.RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.refresh(RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.java:182)
    at com.ibm.wps.model.command.RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.refresh(RefreshPageLayoutCommandImpl.java:195)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)

    Any idea what could be the issue

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  2. theoretical tech dudeJuly 24, 2018 at 12:37 PM

    Sorry for the late response, have you checked that path to make sure it exists: /CustomTheme8Static/themes/Portal8.0/layout-templates/2ColumnEqual/ ?
    Thanks

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