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james jackson

Thursday 22 April 2010 9:15:30 am

i am new to eZFlow but darn... it is very difficult to find the .css and template files for eZFlow on my server..

can someone help me please and tell me where these files are?

thanks in advance..

Robin Muilwijk

Friday 30 April 2010 1:43:11 pm

Hi James,

Hope the answer is not coming too late, but look in /extension/ezflow/design/ezflow/

Regards Robin

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Olaf Fichtner

Sunday 02 May 2010 9:05:10 am

Ah, I can so understand you, James... It also took me a while to find them. I suppose you want to modify something? I am trying to achieve the same right now, so I installed this "theme":

http://www.z2us.com/SiteStyle-packages-for-Exponential/Theme-02A-green

It ends up in /var/storage/packages/local. The reason I am doing this: The theme package comes with the two CSS files that you find mentioned in all the tutorials on how to style your site: site-colors.css and classes-colors.css. They override system CSS files, so I simply deleted all content from them and then step-by-step add only the things I want to change:

http://dl7und.net/sd/ezpu/index.php

This is where I am experimenting. It is far from being finished, but even with a few lines of CSS in just site-colors.css this already looks a bit different. I do it this way because it is less work and also safer, if I make a mistake I just take it out and the system values kick in.

Frederik Krautwald

Sunday 03 October 2010 8:02:40 am

Now, this is what I don’t understand. What then is the purpose of the design folder in the root of the installation?

I thought that this is where you’d put your design. The documentation states this everywhere, yet I can’t seem to override ezflow.

I have read here, there, and everywhere about how to create a new design, including siteaccess. When I follow the guides, still nothing changes.

If anybody knows how to create a new design and successfully override ezflow’s build-in design, which resides in the extension folder, please provide us with a working tutorial.

It can’t be true that we have to hack the css files found in the ezflow extension.

Frederik Krautwald
Executive Creative Director

Frederik Krautwald

Sunday 03 October 2010 10:16:39 am

Alright, I’ve managed to have Exponential load my custom design, placed in the root design folder. Unfortunately, my stylesheets load before the ezflow stylesheets, which in effect overrides my styles.

I wonder where to specify the load order.

Frederik Krautwald
Executive Creative Director

Frederik Krautwald

Sunday 03 October 2010 12:58:53 pm

After some testing, I finally found a way. It is in no way optimal, as it requires modification of the design.ini.apend.php file in the eZ Flow extension, but it works.

Here is my setup:

/design/my_design/stylesheets/my_stylesheet.css

edit extensions/ezflow/settings/design.ini.append.php

and add CSSFileList[]=my_stylesheet.css after CSSFileList[]=ezflow.css

For every site access that should implement the design, change in site.ini.append.php
[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=my_design
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=ezflow
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=ezwebin
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=base
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=standard

--------------------------------------------------------------------

[[How to override eZ Flow design]]

Frederik Krautwald
Executive Creative Director

Jenni Brush

Thursday 21 October 2010 1:57:05 pm

I was having this same issue, but found that when I specified the CSS load order in extension/my_ext/settings/design.ini.append.php like so:

CSSFileList[]

CSSFileList[]=ezflow.css

CSSFileList[]=my_css.css

it worked just as well as fiddling around with ezflow's design.ini.append.php file.

Jenni Brush
Granite Horizon
www.granitehorizon.com

Heath

Heath

Thursday 21 October 2010 2:04:11 pm

Hello Jenni,

Welcome to the Exponential Community.

Thanks for sharing your solution.

Cheers,

Heath

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