Are the colored "themes" gone for good with the "Next" UI?

[Tom Siegel]

Like the other developers on my team, I have counted on the different "theme" colors in ServiceNow to indicate what environment I am in. Red for Prod, Blue for Test, Green for Dev, etc. We are upgrading from Rome to Tokyo and it looks like the only theme options we have are "Dark" and "Regular"? I have done some google searching and can't find much on the subject. Being developers, I am sure a lot of the forum members have come up with some creative ways to indicate what instance they are in when clicking through the 12 open tabs in their browser.

Different Chrome sessions for each environment? Last Resort. Dark for Prod and Normal for sub environments? In a Pinch. Some small UI change that can be easily stored as XML and applied to the respective instances after clone downs and upgrades? Yes please...

Even better please tell me I have missed a config setting somewhere

Thanks,

Tom

[JP - Kyndryl]

Hi Tom,

https://www.servicenow.com/community/now-platform-articles/change-the-header-s-background-color-in-t...

or

https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1118116

[Ishaan Shoor]

@Tom Siegel 

Here's how you can create a new theme and also understand the theming fundamentals in next experience.

1) next-experience-theming-fundamentals 
2) Create new next UI theme 

3) Also, LCHH if you want to see the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuITYAOBlUU
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[Tom Siegel]

Thank you for the replies! It looks like there is some risk involved with heading down this path.

1) The article that JP linked had an update set, which is nice. It also however mentioned that the update set was originally applied to San Diego but the upgrade to Tokyo caused some potential issues with check boxes?

2) The Happy Hour link was also very helpful and interesting, although the fact that fat fingering changes to the style can render a blank page is not ideal.

I may head down the path of creating different logo images for the upper left hand corner until the UI "matures" a bit more.

Thanks - Tom

[Mike_R · Accepted solution]

Idk if you want to go this route, but I just created different banner announcements for my subprod environments. It has worked out fine

https://docs.servicenow.com/en-US/bundle/tokyo-platform-user-interface/page/administer/navigation-an...

instanceName.service-now.com/sys_ux_banner_announcement_list.do?sysparm_query=&sysparm_view=