AdminUI and the admin designs
The administration of Exponential comes in several designs. They show the same administration with different looks and layouts, and a user can switch between them.
Contents
The designs
| Design | What it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
Admin 4 (admin4) | "a complete administration design in the look of the setup wizard, with a light and a dark mode" | The admin4 design |
Admin 4 (layouts) (admin4l) | admin4 "whose page is assembled by Exponential Layouts" | The admin4l design |
AdminUI (adminui) | "the Netgen Admin UI look and layout for the Exponential administration", from the extension exp_adminui, as its own siteaccess | Exponential Admin UI |
Admin 3 (admin3) | A responsive administration design | admin3 responsive admin |
Classic (admin) and Classic, server-rendered (admin_classic) | The classic administration | Choosing the administration design |
Switching designs
"A signed-in user who holds the policy uiswitch/design can choose which administration design they work in [...]
from the right toolbar. The choice changes the interface for that user only, and only for the siteaccess where it
was made" (Choosing the administration design for your session).
Shared rules
Every admin design follows the same styling rules: no <style> block or style="" attribute in templates, shared
components and design tokens with dark values, module CSS in stylesheets/modules/
(Styling the administration; designers' pages
Admin designs overview).
Where they come from
- The admin designs are part of the kernel repository (
design/). - AdminUI is "A feature complete port of the legendary Netgen AdminUI Administration UI. This solution depends on
Exponential 6.0.15* or greater" (repository description of
se7enxweb/exp_adminui, quoted on AdminUI), another example of the ecosystem porting work from a neighboring PHP project. - The Symfony platform line has its own admin UI forks (The Exponential platform ecosystem).
Related pages
- Products
- Admin tour
- Themes and designs
- Designers: start here
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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