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Resolved Applying themes to ancestor userobjects inherited from standard visual objects

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  1. Mark Jones
    Mark Jones
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  3. Monday, 14 February 2022 16:21 PM UTC

We have two userobjects uo_fms_picturebutton and uo_fms_picturebutton2 which are inherited from the standard picturebutton control.    4 of these are placed on our ancestor window object w_genapp_base, 2 of each type called cb_1,cb_2,cb_3_cb_4.  We would like to have different theme properties specified for each of these picturebutton control types,  e.g. uo_fms_picturebutton is always white and uo_fms_picturebutton2 is always blue.   I have a standard themes file with a picturebutton entry and a custom themes file but i am not clear how I specify the ancestor object nodes in the customs theme file. I cannot get anything to work.   Has anyone had experience of overriding themes for ancestor standard visual objects?

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 14 February 2022 16:32 PM UTC
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Hi Mark;

  The PB "Theme" feature currently does not support theming ancestors. Only at the concrete (working) level objects. There is an enhancement ticket request in the system for this feature. However at this time, I have not heard of "if" or "when" this featrure will be added.

Regards ... Chris

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Mark Jones
  1. Mark Jones
  2. Monday, 14 February 2022 16:38 PM UTC
Chris, Thanks a lot for the quick response - that makes sense based on what I was finding. If I explicitly reference an ancestor object control on the final window where it is implement all is well but I cannot make the change globally.
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Bhavesh Vyas
Bhavesh Vyas Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 20 May 2022 05:41 AM UTC
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Hello Chris,

We want to implement our software with theme with PB19 and we are facing the same issue, so can you please provide current update on the enhancement? also can you please provide suggestions/workaround if any?

Regards,

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Friday, 20 May 2022 14:01 PM UTC
Hi Bhavesh ... there are planned updates to the Theme feature. However at this time, Engineering has not provided me with exactly what these upgrades will be in PB2022 nor, when they will arrive (ie: GA, R2 or R3).
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