topic Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

MatthewProctor-Brown — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:23:11 GMT

I'm trying to use Shared Theme to apply our org's Brand Guideline colors to all of our apps.

For older apps the Shared Theme controls are working as expected: I can directly set the header colors, buttons, and body text. It doesn't really fit our palette well, but I can use the grayscale colors fine.

For Experience Builder, the "Organization Theme" doesn't match any of this, instead defaulting to a different mid-grey for Header Color and completely ignoring the Shared Theme Logo.

If I go through and customize a Theme, it has an entirely different set of named colors than Shared Theme.

Primary
Secondary
Light
Dark
Success
Info
Warning
Danger

Setting these gives much better results, but seems like it must be done for each app individually.

Why is the Organization Theme creating such different colors?
Is there any way to configure a common theme that respects our brand colors?

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

ShaneONeill_144 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:36:24 GMT

I would suggest getting in touch with your local Esri Distributor and ask them to investigate this further for you - it may be something that can be addressed by a bug/enhancement

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

Wei_Ying — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:05:49 GMT

Hi @MatthewProctor-Brown Thanks for your feedback!

The shared theme in Org is different design system compared to Experience Builder.
Experience Builder theme is much more complex and has more color variables then shared theme does. So we can only try our best to match the colors in your shared theme to ExB. The "Button background" color in your shared theme will be picked to be "Primary" color in ExB, and the "Button text" color will match the "Dark" color in ExB. The "Body background" will match the Secondary color in ExB.

There is no way to match perfectly for different theme system. But you can manually adjust the app design to use the colors from your org shared theme. In color picker of EXB, you can see these colors from org. So you can decide where to use what color to match your shared theme.

And the logo in your shared theme cannot be read over, you have to manually upload it into ExB and use it in an Image widget

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

JeffreyThompson2 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:07:01 GMT

Thought for future development: could you make it possible for Themes made in Developer Edition to be uploaded to Enterprise, similar to Widgets?

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

Wei_Ying — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:24:34 GMT

@JeffreyThompson2 Thanks for your feedback! Yes we have got similar request before and we are investigating this feature and will see if we can do in future release.

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

AnneReynolds — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:50:20 GMT

It seems I can no longer modify our organizational theme in Experience Builder ... only the default ones. Is this a glitch? 7/2025

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

Wei_Ying — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:28:58 GMT

Organizational theme is always not editable from Experience Builder. ExB can only read over the colors and map to the current app from your organization setting

Re: Experience Builder Organization Theme doesn't match Shared Theme

AndreaB_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:35:55 GMT

@Wei_Ying What is the difference between the "Organization Shared" theme at the top

and the "Shared theme" at the bottom?