How to Customize Portal Management Options

Branding is essential to your VIDIZMO Portal as it significantly impacts your users' experience and strongly emphasizes your brand voice, theme, or tone. VIDIZMO provides the tools to customize various aspects of your Portal, such as your Portal thumbnail or header.  

In addition, you can customize various aspects of your Portal's user interface (UI) using custom CSS. The UI elements each have a predefined CSS class that you can utilize when writing your CSS code for customizations.

Using Custom CSS, you can customize your Portal's UI. In addition to changing the appearance, some CSS properties enable you to manage visibility or display. Using these properties and the respective CSS classes of the UI elements, you can control the display of specific options in your Portal Settings or Control Panel. You can also implement CAL-specific CSS customization to add another layer to your customization.

Note: Please note that the class availability depends on the type of VIDIZMO product you are using, whether you have the required permissions, and whether a certain feature is available in your product.

Prerequisites

• Ensure that you have Portal Management permissions so you can access the Control Panel and Portal Settings.
• To use Custom CSS, ensure you have access to the Branding feature via group permission or CAL.

CSS Customization Scenarios

1. Open the navigation menu via the button on the top left.
2. Click the Admin dropdown.
3. Click ‘Portal Settings.'

4. Click Branding
5. Select Customize.
6. Enter the code for your customizations in the Custom CSS section.
7. Click the 'Update' button to apply the modifications. We recommend refreshing your browser to see the changes on your Portal.

Note: To obtain the CSS class of a specific UI element, right-click and inspect it using your browser's developer tools. A CSS class is indicated by the ‘vdz-' prefix.

Scenario 1: Customizing Appearance of Options

1. You can emphasize or highlight an option in the Control Panel or Portal Settings using Custom CSS. Let's demonstrate using the CSS selector ‘.vdz-Navigation-Menu-settings.'
2. Here is a code snippet for modifying the title by changing its font, font size and color.

.vdz-Navigation-Menu-settings {
 color: orange;
}

3. Here is the result of the modification.

Scenario 2: Hiding Portal Management Options

1. You can use Custom CSS to hide the Portal management options. Let us see how to hide 'Privacy' from Portal Settings using the .vdz-Privacy-settings selector.

2. Paste the following code snippet in the custom CSS section.

.vdz-Privacy-settings {
 display: none !important;
}

3. Here is the result of your customization.

Note: In addition to customizing UI elements using their CSS classes, you can write code to make these customizations specific to CAL on your VIDIZMO Portal. Learn more here: How to Perform CAL Specific CSS Customizations

CSS Classes for Portal Settings

CSS Classes for Control Panel

Diagnostics

• If the changes are not being reflected, try using !important in your CSS declarations.
• Another reason that changes might not be affected is if the UI element has multiple or Nested CSS classes on it. You can check the CSS classes via browser's developer tools.
• Take good care when adding a visibility display CSS property to modify either the vdz-branding or vdz-Portal-Settings class. You may have to either navigate to the Portal Settings page URL use your browser's dev tools to unhide the class to access Customize page.