horizon/doc/source/topics/customizing.rst

Customizing Horizon

Changing the Site Title

The OpenStack Dashboard Site Title branding (i.e. "OpenStack Dashboard") can be overwritten by adding the attribute SITE_BRANDING to local_settings.py with the value being the desired name.

The file local_settings.py can be found at the Horizon directory path of openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.

Changing the Logo

The OpenStack Logo is pulled in through style.css:

#splash .modal {
    background: #fff url(../images/logo.png) no-repeat center 35px;

h1.brand a {
    background: url(../images/logo.png) top left no-repeat;

To override the OpenStack Logo image, replace the image at the directory path openstack_dashboard/static/dashboard/img/logo.png.

The dimensions should be width: 108px, height: 121px.

Changing the Brand Link

The logo also acts as a hyperlink. The default behavior is to redirect to horizon:user_home. By adding the attribute SITE_BRANDING_LINK with the desired url target e.g., http://sample-company.com in local_settings.py, the target of the hyperlink can be changed.

Modifying Existing Dashboards and Panels

If you wish to alter dashboards or panels which are not part of your codebase, you can specify a custom python module which will be loaded after the entire Horizon site has been initialized, but prior to the URLconf construction. This allows for common site-customization requirements such as:

• Registering or unregistering panels from an existing dashboard.
• Changing the names of dashboards and panels.
• Re-ordering panels within a dashboard or panel group.

To specify the python module containing your modifications, add the key customization_module to your HORIZON_CONFIG dictionary in local_settings.py. The value should be a string containing the path to your module in dotted python path notation. Example:

HORIZON_CONFIG = {
    "customization_module": "my_project.overrides"
}

You can do essentially anything you like in the customization module. For example, you could change the name of a panel:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

import horizon

# Rename "User Settings" to "User Options"
settings = horizon.get_dashboard("settings")
user_panel = settings.get_panel("user")
user_panel.name = _("User Options")

Or get the instances panel:

projects_dashboard = horizon.get_dashboard("project")
instances_panel = projects_dashboard.get_panel("instances")

And limit access to users with the Keystone Admin role:

permissions = list(getattr(instances_panel, 'permissions', []))
permissions.append('openstack.roles.admin')
instances_panel.permissions = tuple(permissions)

Or just remove it entirely:

projects_dashboard.unregister(instances_panel.__class__)

You can also override existing methods with your own versions:

# Disable Floating IPs
from openstack_dashboard.dashboards.project.access_and_security import tabs
from openstack_dashboard.dashboards.project.instances import tables

NO = lambda *x: False

tabs.FloatingIPsTab.allowed = NO
tables.AssociateIP.allowed = NO
tables.SimpleAssociateIP.allowed = NO
tables.SimpleDisassociateIP.allowed = NO

Note

my_project.overrides needs to be importable by the python process running Horizon. If your module is not installed as a system-wide python package, you can either make it installable (e.g., with a setup.py) or you can adjust the python path used by your WSGI server to include its location.

Probably the easiest way is to add a python-path argument to the WSGIDaemonProcess line in Apache's Horizon config.

Assuming your my_project module lives in /opt/python/my_project, you'd make it look like the following:

WSGIDaemonProcess [... existing options ...] python-path=/opt/python

Button Icons

Horizon provides hooks for customizing the look and feel of each class of button on the site. The following classes are used to identify each type of button:

• Generic Classes

  • btn-search
  • btn-delete
  • btn-upload
  • btn-download
  • btn-create
  • btn-edit
  • btn-list
  • btn-copy
  • btn-camera
  • btn-stats
  • btn-enable
  • btn-disable

• Floating IP-specific Classes

  • btn-allocate
  • btn-release
  • btn-associate
  • btn-disassociate

• Instance-specific Classes

  • btn-launch
  • btn-terminate
  • btn-reboot
  • btn-pause
  • btn-suspend
  • btn-console
  • btn-log

• Volume-specific classes

  • btn-detach

Additionally, the site-wide default button classes can be configured by setting ACTION_CSS_CLASSES to a tuple of the classes you wish to appear on all action buttons in your local_settings.py file.

Custom Stylesheets

It is possible to define custom stylesheets for your dashboards. Horizon's base template horizon/templates/base.html defines multiple blocks that can be overridden.

To define custom css files that apply only to a specific dashboard, create a base template in your dashboard's templates folder, which extends Horizon's base template e.g. openstack_dashboard/dashboards/my_custom_dashboard/ templates/my_custom_dashboard/base.html.

In this template, redefine block css. (Don't forget to include _stylesheets.html which includes all Horizon's default stylesheets.):

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block css %}
  {% include "_stylesheets.html" %}

  {% load compress %}
  {% compress css %}
  <link href='{{ STATIC_URL }}my_custom_dashboard/less/my_custom_dashboard.less' type='text/less' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' />
  {% endcompress %}
{% endblock %}

The custom stylesheets then reside in the dashboard's own static folder openstack_dashboard/dashboards/my_custom_dashboard/static/ my_custom_dashboard/less/my_custom_dashboard.less.

All dashboard's templates have to inherit from dashboard's base.html:

{% extends 'my_custom_dashboard/base.html' %}
...

Custom Javascript

Similarly to adding custom styling (see above), it is possible to include custom javascript files.

All Horizon's javascript files are listed in the horizon/_scripts.html partial template, which is included in Horizon's base template in block js.

To add custom javascript files, create an _scripts.html partial template in your dashboard openstack_dashboard/dashboards/my_custom_dashboard/ templates/my_custom_dashboard/_scripts.html which extends horizon/_scripts.html. In this template override the block custom_js_files including your custom javascript files:

{% extends 'horizon/_scripts.html' %}

{% block custom_js_files %}
    <script src='{{ STATIC_URL }}my_custom_dashboard/js/my_custom_js.js' type='text/javascript' charset='utf-8'></script>
{% endblock %}

In your dashboard's own base template openstack_dashboard/dashboards/ my_custom_dashboard/templates/my_custom_dashboard/base.html override block js with inclusion of dashboard's own _scripts.html:

{% block js %}
    {% include "my_custom_dashboard/_scripts.html" %}
{% endblock %}

The result is a single compressed js file consisting both Horizon and dashboard's custom scripts.

Additionally, some marketing and analytics scripts require you to place them within the page's <head> tag. To do this, place them within the horizon/_custom_head_js.html file. Similar to the _scripts.html file mentioned above, you may link to an existing file:

<script src='{{ STATIC_URL }}/my_custom_dashboard/js/my_marketing_js.js' type='text/javascript' charset='utf-8'></script>

or you can paste your script directly in the file, being sure to use appropriate tags:

<script type="text/javascript">
//some javascript
</script>

Customizing Meta Attributes

To add custom metadata attributes to your project's base template, include them in the horizon/_custom_meta.html file. The contents of this file will be inserted into the page's <head> just after the default Horizon meta tags.