Customized Themes and Templates

If you use a form that has your own custom theme when publishing a template, your custom theme will not become part of the template.  The only exception to this rule is Global Themes that are applied to a form in the form's theme property. Also in this case the form must be used on the same form server. If the form is uploaded to a different form server the theme will be lost unless it was also installed here by the form server superuser admin.

If you want to share the form and the custom theme with someone else, you’ll need to send the downloaded form and the custom theme zip file . or add the custom theme to the application level themes and download and send the application. This will send both the form(s) and application level custom theme(s)

Advanced Customization Techniques

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