I have extended one of the themes and I would like to customize the colors of the buttons and what not. It seems like creating a custom theme variation is the way to go. I followed the instructions in this thread:  forums.limesurvey.org/forum/design-issue...ruity-css-variations . However, it hasn't worked. I copied all the files over as instructed. I edited the options.twig to list my custom css file. I even entered its full path to make sure it found it. I edited the css file by finding the color code I wanted to change and changing it to my new color code. It still remains the same. Any input would be appreciated.

Did you apply the new theme to your survey?
Did you empty the cache?
Did you try with a different browser?

I am doing this using the theme editor. I do not have any surveys.

In the theme editor, it shows a sample of a survey to demonstrate what it will look like. If I change to a stock variation, this sample will change in the theme editor.

Then you might want to empty the assets in Limesurvey. What about creating a small survey and do a test? At the end you'll need to test with a real survey anyway, the preview can only help to a certain point anyway.

I created a survey and it doesn't show the changes I made in the css file.

Ok. I think I'm heading in a direction. I went into the mytheme/config.xml and changed the variations path to the file I changed. I then reset the theme. That got one button to change color. I did some more inspections and discovered that the others are as lightly different color than what I had already changed. I went into the myvariation.css and made those changes. However, I'm having the same trouble where it doesn't update.

I've learned that in my browser developer tools that I can hover over the .css file it gets the info from to get the full path. The full path is to /tmp. There are a number of different folders that seem to be generated from the root path of my custom theme that are put into tmp/assets. I think my answer lies in how those items in /tmp are generated.

I think I got it. I deleted all the folders in /tmp/assets and reset the theme. I left the index.html. It appears to have worked. I wish there was an easier way.

There is a button to reset the assets in the GUI...

I would call this "an easier way".

Are you referring to the reset button in the theme manager? If so, that doesn't seem to do the same thing.

No, I am referring to "Configuration" --> "Settings" --> "Global Settings" --> "General" --> "Clear assets cache: (1)" --> "Clear now"

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