WebDAV was the way to customise the heritage Process Portal (BPM 8.0 / 8.5 Portal web application - themes, CSS, images, some JSP fragments) without rebuilding the EAR: the portal exposed its theme folder over WebDAV so that designers could mount it as a drive and edit files. Steps on 8.5.x:
- Find the portal's WebDAV URL in the release's "customizing Process Portal" topic (a /portal/webdav/... style path served by the Portal application).
- Connect with a WebDAV client (Windows "Map network drive", macOS Finder, or cadaver) as a tw_admins user; the tree shows theme/ with css/, images/, templates/.
- Edit / upload files: logo, colours in the theme CSS, the login page background; changes are picked up without restart (cache refresh may take a minute).
- Keep a copy of your changes in source control - fix packs overwrite the theme.
Important: this applies to the old Portal. Since BPM 8.5.5 the Process Portal is a process app ("System Process Portal" - Portal built with coaches): customisation means creating a copy of the Process Portal process app in Process Designer, changing coach views / themes there, and marking your copy as the portal (the default process portal setting of the server in Process Admin). On BAW 20+ / CP4BA the user-facing UI is Workplace, customised by configuration (branding options, Workplace settings in the CR on CP4BA) rather than WebDAV or app copies. So: WebDAV for 8.0-8.5.0 heritage portal themes; process app copy for 8.5.5-BAW classic portal; configuration for Workplace.
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