Difficulty: novice

What is a corporate identity?

The corporate identity is there to allow environments to reflect apply the company colors . Aside from the logo we (and logo) to a Workplace environment. By configuring the corporate identity, we can apply a custom logo and also give the opportunity to color the menu’s and headers to the client’s needs.

For our Workplace training environment we use the default Spacewell colors scheme, for example:

We can navigate to

Edit the current corporate identity

1. Press the ‘Settings’ button on the Startboard startBoard) or via the Navigationmenu → Admin → navigation menu > Admin > Setup)

2. Click on the Interface tab Interface.

3. Navigate to the Corporate identity by clicking the magnifying glass next to the field.

4. Note: if the default corporate identity is still set all field .

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1. are grey. The default cannot be edited. If this case please create and apply a new corporate identity.

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Create and set a new corporate identity

1. Press the ‘Settings’ button on the startBoard) or via the navigation menu > Admin > Setup)

2. Click on the Interface tab.

3. Navigate to the Corporate identity > press the '>' behind the field > press the '…' that now appear.

4. Now create a new corporate identity by

   1. pressing the '+' on the top right OR;

   2. press ‘Search’ > open an existing corporate identity > press the duplicate icon on the top right of the page

5. Give the new corporate identity a name

6. You can now configure and test the new corporate identity.

7. To apply the new corporate identify set the new corporate identity in the Corporate identity field on the Interface tab.
   Tip: only set the new corporate identity, when you’ve tested it thoroughly.

Color the corporate identity

In the picture we can distinguish between the different color options. Aside from picking a color using the color wheel, Workplace also accepts color codes.

Important settings:

Add a logo

To add a logo to your environment it needs to meet a number of requirements.

• It must be an .png or .svg file;

• Support transparency;

• The number of pixels must be 4:1 (e.g. width 400px and height 100px);

• The maximum size of the image is 640px by 160px;

• The minimum size of the image is 160px by 40px.

View/publish the corporate identity

To view After changing the settings of the corporate identity it can be previewed:

1. Click Preview ‘Preview trial versionversion’. The status of the Trial version will now switch to 'Ready for publication'.

2. Refresh To preview the settings, refresh the page by clicking on the refresh button on your browser (not the one in the Workplace environment).

After viewing the trial version it is possible to publish the current version:

1. Click publish or press the logo on the top left of the page.
   Note: The preview version is only shown to the user that pressed the ‘Preview trial version’ button. Also if you logout and login again, the preview is gone.

2. Click ‘Publish trial version’ to save the trial version. The status of the published version will now switch to Available.

1. Alternatively press the ‘Discard trial version’ if you don’t like the new settings.

Add a logo

To add a logo to your environment it needs to meet a number of requirements.

Summary

Exercise

•  Create a new corporate identity by copying the default corporate identity.
•  Change the colors to your liking and add a logo.
•  Publish your corporate identity so that the status of ‘Published version = Available’.

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