Create your own view

If you prefer not to edit shared default files, or if you want a really different UI, the best way is to create your own custom view.

Add a new view

As presented in previous section, you will need to set up several files to load a new UI view.

create a new folder in web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/.
add a templates/index.html in this folder.
add a javascript file loading your main AngularJS module
add less files

Customize your view

Let's say we want to create a custom view name al.

You will need to create a new folder web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/geoportal.
Add a new file web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/geoportal/templates/index.html containing
```
<div class="geoportal">Welcome to geoportal</div>
```

Add a new file web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/geoportal/search.js containing

(function() {

  goog.provide('gn_search_geoportal');
  goog.require('gn_search');

  var module = angular.module('gn_search_geoportal', ['gn_search']);

})();

Note

You must include gn_search module.

Add a new file web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/geoportal/views/geoportal/less/gn_search_geoportal.less containing
```
.geoportal {
    font-size: 36px;
    font-weight: bold;
}
```

Launch your view

To see your new view, you can launch the catalog.search service with a new parameter view: http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search?view=geoportal

Or, go into admin settings page and set the system/ui/defaultView (User interface configuration -> Choose the user interface to use) to geoportal.