Theming Options for Web Dynpro ABAP/Java - Custom CSS

[Former Member]

What options are available for creating a custom CSS for WDA?  My project is going towards SAPUI5, and they want to apply the same look and feeavl to their Web Dynpro applications.

I know the Theme Designer is an option - but this customer is running on NW 7.3.  Obviously to get the WD CSS to look similar UI5, it will require changing all of the WD selectors.

Finally, we have a 7.4 Sandbox.  If I build the theme there, is it backwards compatible to their 7.3 landscape?

[Former Member]

UI Theme Designer is the only supported way and it is available for NW 7.3 as well, assuming you are up to date on Support Packages. As long as you create a theme with UI Theme Designer the theme will work in any system that supports the same, there might be small functional and visual differences though depending on the SP levels of the source and target systems. SAP recommendation is to always use the latest version available to create (and consume) themes. You could start by using the Cloud version of UI Theme Designer, export and import into your own system. That said your NW 7.3 system needs to support UI Theme Designer to be able to use custom themes created by it.