It is still on my list of topics, but it never seems to get right to the top. I’ve provided notes to clients before now, I just need to find some of those and tidy them up. Hopefully in the not too distant future…

When will you create a blog about Themes specifically? A guide on creating various types of themse would be useful.

Thank you

yes, if it was just colours, variables would work fine. Though for all settings I think applying theme for each still is a better solution than replacing all xml files.
Thx for input.

There are a couple of things you can do. For colours you can always use variables – these can be set in an include file called by each app. Other settings can be modified if you use project files and change them with a text search and replace – not sure I would recommend that though.

Thank you.
Concerning 2), I had hope there was a way to update the theme, so the documents using this theme would automatically update, so I dont need to open each document and apply the new theme on all documents.

Hi Mikael,

1) That’s correct, you keep layering different settings into the one theme by adding things from different object types. Things like the caption bar (which are common between lots of objects) can be taken from one type of object to be applied to all. Other settings need to be taken from each type of object.

2) Again correct. Applying themes over the top of existing documents is relatively straight forward. Sometimes global changes to a theme (e.g. a caption colour) can be best made by opening the XML and doing a search and replace.

1) If I want to create a “one for all” theme (include all settings), then I need an add on process in several steps (like background, listbox, objects etc.)?

2) If I created 5 different qvws from the same theme, and the theme changes, then I must first do the above steps again and I then need to manual change the theme in each of the 5 qvws ?

Hi Koti – that sounds like a good topic for a video. I will add it to my list…

Hi Shashidhar,
The best place to contribute your own articles is to the QlikCommunity. You tend to get quite a lot of discussion and feedback on articles posted there.