Customize the dashboard¶

Create two PNG logo files with transparent backgrounds using the following sizes:

• Login screen: 365 x 50
• Logged in banner: 216 x 35

Upload your new images to /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/static/dashboard/img/.

Create a CSS style sheet in /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/static/dashboard/css/.

Change the colors and image file names as appropriate, though the relative directory paths should be the same. The following example file shows you how to customize your CSS file:

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/*
* New theme colors for dashboard that override the defaults:
*  dark blue: #355796 / rgb(53, 87, 150)
*  light blue: #BAD3E1 / rgb(186, 211, 225)
*
* By Preston Lee <plee@tgen.org>
*/
h1.brand {
background: #355796 repeat-x top left;
border-bottom: 2px solid #BAD3E1;
}
h1.brand a {
background: url(../img/my_cloud_logo_small.png) top left no-repeat;
}
#splash .login {
background: #355796 url(../img/my_cloud_logo_medium.png) no-repeat center 35px;
}
#splash .login .modal-header {
border-top: 1px solid #BAD3E1;
}
.btn-primary {
background-image: none !important;
background-color: #355796 !important;
border: none !important;
box-shadow: none;
}
.btn-primary:hover,
.btn-primary:active {
border: none;
box-shadow: none;
background-color: #BAD3E1 !important;
text-decoration: none;
}

Open the following HTML template in an editor of your choice:

/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/templates/_stylesheets.html

Add a line to include your newly created style sheet. For example custom.css:

<link href='{{ STATIC_URL }}bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' />
<link href='{{ STATIC_URL }}dashboard/css/{% choose_css %}' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' />
<link href='{{ STATIC_URL }}dashboard/css/custom.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' />

Restart Apache:

On Ubuntu:

# service apache2 restart

On Fedora, RHEL, CentOS:

# service httpd restart

On openSUSE:

# service apache2 restart

To view your changes reload your dashboard. If necessary go back and modify your CSS file as appropriate.

Set the HTML title, which appears at the top of the browser window, by adding the following line to local_settings.py:

SITE_BRANDING = "Example, Inc. Cloud"

Restart Apache for this change to take effect.

The logo also acts as a hyperlink. The default behavior is to redirect to horizon:user_home. To change this, add the following attribute to local_settings.py:

SITE_BRANDING_LINK = "http://example.com"

Restart Apache for this change to take effect.

By default the help URL points to http://docs.openstack.org. Change this by editing the following attribute to the URL of your choice in local_settings.py:

'help_url': "http://openstack.mycompany.org"

Restart Apache for this change to take effect.