The Primo New UI Customization Workflow Development Environment

css documentation

• Primo uses Angular Directives massively in this project

• To learn more about directives see:

https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive

• Primo uses external directives from the Angular-material framework :

https://material.angularjs.org/latest/

• Those directives are tagged by a prefix : "md-"

• Primo also creates its own directives which are tagged by the "prm-" prefix.

Example:

 <header layout="column" layout-fill class="topbar-wrapper">
    <prm-topbar>
    </prm-topbar>

<prm-search-bar (search-event)="prmSearch.onSearchBarSearchEvent()">
</prm-search-bar>

       <md-progress-linear class="header-progress-bar animation-scale-up-down" md-mode="indeterminate" ng-show="prmSearch.searchInProgress">
       </md-progress-linear>

</header>

• You can see in the example how we use :

1. An HTML5 tag - header
2. A Primo directive : prm-topbar , prm-search-bar.
3. An external material design directive : md-progress-bar :

https://material.angularjs.org/latest/api/directive/mdProgressLinear

• When defining css rules it is important to understand the css cascading/specifity logic:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-cascade/

https://specificity.keegan.st/

• When you start working on customizing your css be aware of the ability to define css selectors based on the directive name, which is actually equivalent

to an html tag - this will enable you changing the design of a component cross-system without relying on id's/classes

• For the example above we can define selectors:

prm-topbar input {....}
prm-topbar.md-primoExplore-theme input {....}

• Primo is using a theme inside angular-material to define a palette of colors see:

https://material.angularjs.org/latest/Theming/01_introduction

• This means that you will often encounter a class "md-primoExplore-theme" attached to elements.

Recipes/Examples:

css Recipe 1 - Color Scheme

• Open a new command line window

• cd to the project base directory (C:\\\primo-explore-devenv)
• Run gulp css-colors to save the OTB css file
• Run css-color-extractor primo-explore/tmp/app.css --format=css > primo-explore/tmp/colors.css to extract the color definitions from the OTB css file and copy the css rules to primo-explore/custom/css/custom1.css

Run the following steps repeatedly until you are satisfied with the result

• Choose a color from the interface (using your browsers' dev tools or extensions such as colorzilla)

• Choose the new color from your library color scheme
• Replace all values in the custom1.css file
• Save and refresh your browser

css Recipe 2 - Moving the Facets to the Left

• Select the parent container containing the search result and the facets
• Copy the selector definition using your browsers' dev tools
• Define the container as

display:flex;
flex-flow:row-reverse;

• complete css definition:

prm-search > md-content.md-primoExplore-theme .main {
    display: -webkit-flex; !* Safari *!
    -webkit-flex-flow: row-reverse wrap; !* Safari 6.1+ *!
    display: flex;
    flex-flow: row-reverse wrap;

}
.screen-gt-sm .sidebar{
    webkit-flex: 0 0 15%;
    flex: 0 0 15%;
}

• Save and refresh your browser