Hello
@Shamil Hameed
As dev portal is on Drupal, in order to customize features or look and feel , basic knowledge of Drupal will be required.
In drupal we have theme layer and functional layer separated from each other. In order to change look and feel we will need to extend the theme layer similarly in order to modify the functional aspect we are supposed to do it as functional layer.
Core Structure of dev portal:
The core of dev portal uses concept of
distribution. which basically allows to bundle up core features in form of profile, so when you install drupal and choose that particular profile you get all those features out of the box. So if you go to drupal root
<drupal_root> >> profiles >> apigee
You will see
modules directory(core features)
and
themes directory(core theme)
Theme layer: -
- Prerequisites: -
-- Basic knowledge of
Drupal theming.
-- Overview of theme file structure and files.
-- In drupal basically we use
sub theme concept in order to customize theme.
- How can we modify the current theme
-
-- So as said we use child theme to customise theming, in our dev portal you might already have child theme under
<drupal_root> >> sites >> all >> themes >> <name_of_your_child_theme>
-- If you do not have already a child theme setup there, you can create one which extends base theme "apigee_responsive" which is present under drupal_root/profiles/themes/.
-- Child theme is the place where are supposed to customise templates for html or override css.
Functional Layer: -
- Prerequisites: -
-- Basic about Drupal hooks which is a way drupal allows to hook into to alter any core/contributed workflow without actually hacking the core.
-- Understanding on extending core/contributed functionality.
- In order to modify a feature/functionality either we can do it by configurations provided by Drupal framework, or we can extend it using contributed modules., or we can build our own custom modules.
- Write your own custom module.
- Module is the place where are supposed to write code to alter features.
I hope that might give you over view of customisation of dev portal.
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