Edit a Skin's Layout Properties

By editing a skin's layout properties, administrators can:

• Upload, replace or delete the skin's primary navigation configuration file (navigations.xml)
• Select a widget page template for the skin, which can be overridden at system role and organization level
• Choose between a fixed or dynamic page width
• Configure the access permissions, to allow users to switch their skins and other administrators to view or edit their properties
• Read an updated deployment file (skin.properties) from the server into the LMS

By default, only the user who uploaded a skin to the LMS can edit it. Skin owners can configure their skins' permissions to allow other administrators to view or edit the layout properties of their skins. To edit a skin's layout properties, administrators must have a system role with unrestricted access to the Screen Layout Manager feature in System Roles (Manage Features > System Administration). Roles with read-only access to the Screen Layout Manager feature can only export skins to a ZIP file.

To edit a skin's layout properties

1. Go to Manage Center > System > Screen Layout Manager. The Screen Layout Manager opens with the current skin selected in the Installed layouts drop-down list.
2. Select the skin to edit from the Installed layouts drop-down list and click Edit. The skin's properties page opens.
3. To provide custom primary navigation, click Upload (if the skin has no associated navigations.xml file), or Replace to replace the existing navigations.xml.
4. To remove the custom navigation from the skin, click Delete. Without an associated navigations.xml file, the skin with use the default LMS primary navigation.
5. Select the widget page template to specify the widget page layout and content for the skin. This can be overridden at system role and organization level.
6. Select the page width type. If you select a fixed page width, enter the width in pixels.
7. If the skin.properties file has been updated directly on the LMS server (instead of being exported and edited externally), you can click Read deployment file to load it into the LMS.
8. Click Permissions to configure access permissions for the skin properties.
9. Click Save.

About the Screen Layout Manager

About Skins

About Widget Page Templates

Permissions