Create my custom theme and upload it to Docker Desktop for Windows

[carloshc95]

Hi!

I am doing my project with alfresco 6.X and SDK 4.0.

I have already created the necessary users, groups, etc. and now I would like to modify the interface so that it more closely resembles that of my small business.

I have read this article to make my custom theme https://docs.alfresco.com/6.1/tasks/dev-extensions-share-tutorials-add-theme.html but I have two main questions:

1.- Where is the aio / aio-share-jar / src / main / resources / META-INF directory located?

2.- I am accessing the Share directory through Docker Desktop in Windows. How can I delete, copy and / or upload files from here?

I have downloaded this article https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cp/  but it is not very clear what my DEST_PATH is (since cmd I have run docker ps and the result is the following image).

[abhinavmishra14 · Accepted solution]

@carloshc95 

Since you have sdk4.x based project, you don't need to copy or make changes directly on docker containers. You make changes in your custom modules and use run.bat/run.sh to launch or reload the customizations. 

Hope you have read the README.md file which you get when you generate the aio project. 

A sample of readme file is located here, it have plenty of info. You have to read and follow it: 

https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/alfresco-metadataextraction-demo/blob/master/metadata-extractor-d...

To launch docker containers with alfresco and share :

./run.sh build_start or ./run.bat build_start

Once you launched containers and made some changes to modules after launch, use following command to reload acs/share:

./run.sh reload_acs or ./run.bat reload_acs

./run.sh reload_share or ./run.bat reload_share

"Where is the aio / aio-share-jar / src / main / resources / META-INF directory located?" --> It is at the same path in your custom module. You shouldn't looking for this path in containers. You need to put all your customizations in aio-share-jar module and reload share using the command shown above.

If you were to copy a file manually to any containers you can use following command:

##### Get container name or short container id:

- `docker ps`

##### Get full container id:

- `docker inspect -f '{{.Id}}' CONTAINER_ID`

##### Copy file:

- `docker cp localFile FULLCONTAINER_ID:pathOnContainer`

Example, i want to copy custom-log4j.properties  from windows path to acs container:
- `docker cp C:\custom-log4j.properties ac23e51fd0b5c4cc11a12133ceea16d603e7f105d8d39873c75d7cfdd5942e40:/usr/local/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension`

This "Alfresco 6.x with SDK4.x and docker command cheatseet" may be helpful to you: https://javaworld-abhinav.blogspot.com/2019/11/alfresco-6x-with-sdk4x-and-docker.html

[carloshc95]

 hi! @abhinavmishra14 

Thanks for your solution. Since eclipse I am able to configure everything without using the docker. But I still can't find the route
Alfresco / tomcat / webapps / share / themes / greenTheme

I have maven installed (C: \ Program Files \ apache-maven-3.6.3), but I can't find tomcat if it's not from the Docker console.

[abhinavmishra14]

You can find the "greenTheme" by navigating to share container via SSH. You can look for various commands available in the cheatsheet blog i shared with you. 

##### SSH Into a docker image:

- `docker exec -t -i <containerName/Id> /bin/bash`

docker exec Options:
  -d, --detach               Detached mode: run command in the background
      --detach-keys string   Override the key sequence for detaching a container

  -e, --env list             Set environment variables

  -i, --interactive          Keep STDIN open even if not attached
      --privileged           Give extended privileges to the command

  -t, --tty                  Allocate a pseudo-TTY

  -u, --user string          Username or UID (format:
                             <name|uid>[:<group|gid>])

  -w, --workdir string       Working directory inside the container



Example (SSH into share container):

- `docker exec -t -i docker_acs6-aio-demo-project-share_1 /bin/bash`

Once you are logged in to the container, go to ('cd' to the path) : $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share/themes/greenTheme

Zip the greenTheme folder and download it locally. 

You can take reference from these projects here:

• https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/share-theme-demo
• https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/share-theme-demo/tree/master/share62-theme-demo