In order to set up our local skin development environment, we need all the skins that exist in Studio to be downloaded into the SDK.Our custom skin depends on a skin called "Support Theme" that a Khoros support member created, which depends on responsive skins. Setting up the local skin dev complains that our skin does not depend on a responsive skin, because it doesn't have all the skins downloaded to view.How can we download all the skins that exist in Studio into our SDK? We have tried:li export-studio-pluginli export-studio-plugin --points "skin" --forceli create-skin --clearCoreAnd none of these appear to work.

Lindsey I was just coming back to update my original response. I've checked with Engineering and we don't see a workaround. I'm filing a bug report for this now. Considering that we don't have a solution for you, I will be bugging the product manager to prioritize this. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you.

That's ok. I am in contact with a Khoros support member so hopefully she could send over the files for the Support Theme or something. Thank you for investigating and getting someone to work on it 🙂

Lindsey, SO this could be core skin, which you can download until not editable from admin. You can log support ticket for this issue and concern at your end. Best thing I would say, Inherit this skin to your custom skin, and override the updates you want to your skin css using mixin and other override css rules

Ah, sorry, I mis-spoke. Of course we do support local Sass compilation via li serve-sass. But the Community SDK code does not currently handle core theme code. Back to SuzieH 's original response, this could be considered a bug, and is worth reporting to Support. In the meantime, you could use Parshant 's workaround, which I believe is to create a new custom skin derived from "theme_support". This is effectively a copy of theme_support, and since it's custom, Community SDK should allow you to export it. You could then rename your local copy to "theme_support" and see if that allows you to compile locally via li serve-sass. Not sure if Parshant has actually done this exact thing. I have not. Another option is to manually copy files out of Studio. You're right that that doesn't sound like much fun.

Lindsey I believe this is a bug in the SDK. It looks like we didn't account for themes when Services added support for those skins.

How to download all skins in Studio into SDK

20 Replies

SuzieH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago
Lindsey I believe this is a bug in the SDK. It looks like we didn't account for themes when Services added support for those skins.
Lindsey
Leader
6 years ago
So is there anything I can do to work around this? Our skin is built off of the Support Theme skin so I'm not sure how much work it would be to have it depend on an entirely new skin. Do you know if there is any work being done to add support for theme skins?
SuzieH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago
Lindsey I was just coming back to update my original response. I've checked with Engineering and we don't see a workaround. I'm filing a bug report for this now. Considering that we don't have a solution for you, I will be bugging the product manager to prioritize this. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you.
Lindsey
Leader
6 years ago
That's ok. I am in contact with a Khoros support member so hopefully she could send over the files for the Support Theme or something. Thank you for investigating and getting someone to work on it 🙂
luk
Boss
6 years ago
Lindsey Did you try:
li export-plugin
this will export the entire plugin, not only the studio plugin, after that is done you should find an additional folder called "coreplugin" on the same level as "res" and "web" in your project folder, within that "coreplugin" folder you'll have another "res" folder with a "skins" folder where all the default skins are stored. If you have some "specially" customized version, there might be an "other" folder on the same level as "res", and within that the same structure as above but with "special-custom" skin (maybe your support skin is like that, so just search a bit in your "coreplugin" folder)...
Lindsey
Leader
6 years ago
Yeah I did that and it downloaded the folder for theme_support (the skin I need downloaded) inside coreplugin/other/res/skins, however it doesn't contain any files inside it
Parshant
Boss
6 years ago
Lindsey,
You can not download core skin from lithium. Parent skins can not be editable from studio. Files which can be edited from studio can only be export through SDK.
li export-studio-plugin i export-plugin
You can download files using SDK using above commands which edited through SDK plugin or by Studio changes.
Lindsey
Leader
6 years ago
Parshant this downloaded every skin except one, theme_support - I have the folder for it, but it has no contents.
Parshant
Boss
6 years ago
Lindsey, Is this theme allow you to edit in studio?
Lindsey
Leader
6 years ago
No it is not editable. It is a skin that a Khoros support member added for us when setting up our community. I am able to download the files for responsivebase and responsivepeak, though, just not for theme_support.