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The Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace contains a class called ThmxTheme which gives us some nice utility methods to interact with site themes in SharePoint 2010. Here is an example of how to automatically set the theme for a newly created SPWeb to be the same as the root web-
ThmxTheme.SetThemeUrlForWeb(newWeb, ThmxTheme.GetThemeUrlForWeb(newWeb.Site.RootWeb));
Do you know of a nicer way to inherit site themes? Please post a comment below.
UPDATE (09/09/10): An alternative way to do this-
ThmxTheme theme = ThmxTheme.Open(web.Site, "_catalogs/theme/MyTheme.thmx"); theme.ApplyTo(web, true);
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I cannot seem to get this code to function.
newWeb does not exist
@Justin – newWeb is just a variable name that refers to a SPWeb object that represents the web where you want to apply the new theme.
I understand that.
Currently I have newWeb = SPContext.Current.Web
This does not function on a new site being created, as it does not offically exist yet.
What do you have your variable set to?
@Justin – I ended up using a feature that is stapled to the GLOBAL template. Presumably you could also attach an event receiver to the new WebProvisioned event. Here is some sample code-
class ApplyTheme : SPFeatureReceiver
{
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
base.FeatureActivated(properties);
using (var web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb)
{
if (web != null)
{
ThmxTheme theme = ThmxTheme.Open(web.Site, “_catalogs/theme/Fraunhofer.thmx”);
theme.ApplyTo(web, true);
}
}
}
}
Thanks, I will give that a go.
I have attempted to use an event receiver on the web provisioned and the web was provisioned events receivers, with no success.