[keycloak-user] keycloak-user Digest, Vol 24, Issue 111

[Niels Bertram]

+1  we have similar requirements where we like to use different themes for
hybrid mobile app clients and traditional responsive web (site) clients


Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:49:28 +0200
From: Thomas Raehalme <thomas.raehalme at aitiofinland.com>
Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Different theme for each client
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+1 as I have a similar use-case from a customer.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Travis De Silva <traviskds at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My vote is to provide this feature at a client level as per the original
> request.
>
> I think realms should be used for completely different domains when we
> want to isolate users etc. Should not try and use it for something that it
> was not intended in the design.
>
> The reason why you might need theming at client level is iif you really
> think that clients which are essentially different applications most of
the
> time and each of these applications might have different look and feel
> themes (either due to different development teams or vendors building
> different applications).
>
> So when someone logins via KeyCloak, its true that we are logging into a
> realm but for an end user, it is really logging into a application and
> there is a need for the login page theme to look similar to the
application
> look and feel.
>
> Also I have a use case where I have a back office application that
> requires login for admin users and then I have the front office of this
> application where in addition to the admin users, you also can have other
> users as well who can self register and login to the front end which is a
> consumer facing site.
>
> How I handle this is by having two clients in the same realm. This works
> fine if you are happy with the same backend login theme to be there for
the
> consumer facing frontend. But we cannot do that as the front end is a
> consumer facing SaaS site, so each front end needs to have the client's
> website theme. This becomes very hard to do if we don't have theming at a
> client level.
>
> I came across this post from Bill a few months ago
> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2015-July/002537.html
>
> I am thinking to make use of the client variable that is available in
> login.ftl and load different freemarker fragments that will then theme it
> differently for each client. As mentioned by Bill, having many if
> conditions might not be ideal but it might meet the requirement.
>
> Cheers
> Travis
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