Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

With the advent of CRM Online 2015 Update 1, we got much awaited New Navigation Bar pattern (Vertical Stacked Menu) and Themes. New Navigation Bar –

Themes –

• With Themes, We can create a custom look and feel, to our CRM web application.We can change CRM applications
  • Logo
  • Navigation bar color
  • Header color
  • Default entity color
  • Default Custom entity color
  • Control Shade & Border

• We can define multiple themes, but only one can be set and published as the default theme.
• The theme customization is supported in Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook
• To create a new Theme, Navigate to Settings -> Customizations -> Themes

• We can create your own theme and Publish (Once published, Theme propagates to all Users)

• You can Clone new Theme from existing Theme and Preview
• “Preview Theme”, sets a cookie in browser allows us to use theme until either you exit the preview or delete cookies.

Below is sample theme I created, I added my own Jpg web resource as ‘Logo’ and got color hexadecimal codes from Color Hex site

Deploying Themes across Organizations

• We cannot include ‘Theme’ in CRM Solutions as Theme is not solution aware.
• However, you can export the Theme and import it to target solution.
• The imported theme must be published to take an effect

Theme Best Practices

Changing Specific Entity Color

• We can change the color of desired entity in Entity Definition

Refer MSDN Article for more details. 🙂