The Customization tool provides three types of customization.

Basic

Basic customization provides a limited set of options intended for quick modification of the objects that are most commonly displayed to users. It can be used to customize and localize common text labels and captions for objects. It can also be used to configure the basic look and feel for pages.

General

General customization enables configuration of a few additional objects and provides many more options for customizing objects, such as:

• The size, color, and placement of forms and screens.
• The look and feel of objects with more opportunities to replace images.
• Text on the screen, including headers and footers.
• Messages, including installation and error messages.

Any text or image that can be configured from visual policy editor, can also be configured using the general customization GUI.

Advanced

Advanced customization provides for any customization that can be effected using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML.

The set of languages that are available for use in an access policy is specified in the access profile. When customizing access profile objects, the accepted languages for the access profile are available for selection. When customizing resource objects, the languages for all access profiles are also available for selection.

Access profile objects and resource objects can have different language settings from one another. If it is available, the language of the user session is selected for use in the UI; otherwise, the default language for the access profile is selected.

Some access policy items can be customized using either the visual policy editor or the Customization tool. After changes are made and saved in one (the visual policy editor, for example), updates are available to view in the other (the Customization tool); the reverse is also true.

Message Box customization

It is possible to choose a language and to specify message and link text for the Message Box in either user interface.

Visual policy editor Message Box customization

General customization for Message Box

Access profile objects and resource objects (customized independently from an access profile) are the same in terms of semantics and structure. Each object has a basic group of customization settings. An access profile, however, has more than one group of customization settings. Customized UI page generation works similarly, in that the process takes an object, adds customization settings to it, and produces XML. Then, it adds a UI page template to the XML data to create a UI page.

Process for creating a customized UI page

The UI page structure is always the same when using basic or general customization. It includes three areas: header, footer, and content.

UI template

Settings (color, font, text, and so on) for the header and footer can be defined in access profile customization. Settings for the location and alignment of the content area can also be defined in access profile customization. Settings for an object that is displayed in the Contents area can be defined in customization of the object.

The UI page structure can be changed using advanced customization. It is possible to provide per-page headers or footers or to completely omit the header, the footer, or both.

Resource objects can be customized and reused in any access profile with an access policy that assigns resources. The following resource objects can be customized:

• Network access resources
• Remote desktops
• Webtops
• Webtop links
• Portal access resources
• App tunnels
• SAML resources

Access profiles and the objects that they contain can be customized. Access profile objects are specific to the particular access profile and are not available for reuse in other access profiles.

When performing customization, an access profile includes common settings, and settings for some of the objects that are included in the access policy.

Common

These settings affect any UI page that displays when the access profile runs. The settings affect text, such as headers and footers and commonly used messages, and look and feel.

Logout

Settings are available to specify an image and text for a page that displays on logout, when access is denied, when a new session must be started, and so on.

Logon Pages

Settings are available for logon page-type actions (logon page, HTTP 401 response, HTTP 407 response, VMware View logon) that are included in the access policy (directly or through the inclusion of a macro). Settings affect the text and look and feel for the specific object.

Message Pages

Settings are available for each specific Message Box action included in the access policy. The settings affect the text and look and feel for the specific object.

Decision Pages

Settings are available for each specific Decision Box action included in the access policy. The settings affect the text and look and feel for the specific object.

Ending Pages

Settings are available for an Ending Deny page and affect the text and look and feel for the page.