OwnCloud Development and/or customization..

I have done some customizations and branding for ownCloud for both my personal instance as well as a few businesses. However, the free ownCloud platform has some limitations versus the paid Enterprise version. Depending on what you need done it may not be possible.

What are you looking to do?

I'm just looking to re-brand hence, change the OwnCloud logo images to the company's own logo images as well as change any text/literature from OwnCloud to the client's company name.
I also see that the free version does not have an option to redirect storage to an external storage drive or NAS.  

Is this something you were able to customize as well as the logo images and the text/literature?
What other features were you able to customize?

I have successfully changed all logos, colors, fonts, branding links, slogans, and menu icons, as well as customized Public names/URLs and custom ports (other than the common 80 and 443).      

Logos: All ownCLoud logos and graphics were replaced with mine.

Icons: I have changed the Apps icons in the drop-down sidebar menu for Files, Activity, Apps, Music, Contacts, Tasks, Calendar etc. Although I know how to change all icons I have left many of the default icons, such as delete, download, share, Home etc. versions, folders, New, upload etc.

Colors: Gradients on the login page, header bar, header bar in emails, password protected folder login page, footer, sidebar, and backgrounds in Apps. I have not been able to locate the background color settings for the drop-down side-bar menu on the left.

Slogans and default links: The word 'ownCloud' and links to ownCloud,org are all changed to my business info.

Additionally, I have set up numerous connections to other systems personal Web Servers and systems, and have integrated this at a few customers for their Intranet Portal as well as a Customer Service Portal for their customers. I have created RemoteApp access, for Remote Users to launch multiple Web Apps via a single web platform, integrated my internal Help Desk Ticketing System, bound it to LDAP for backend authentication, and a few other things.

External storage drives can be done, as I have successfully completely sync'd a Domain network shared folder to ownCloud, without installing any software on the File Server itself. This type of customization and connection is outside the default options but with a little tech knowledge you can build backend connections utilizing the existing options - just think outside the box.    

Due to all the ownCloud help I have been giving people lately, I created a Group on EE called 'ownCloud'. I am looking for people of all ranges of experience to join up!

The three things I'd like to accomplish right away are (within Ubuntu 14.04 Server):

1.  Rebranding the OwnCloud logo images to a specific Company logo along with updating the text/literature
2.  Configuring for SSL
3.  Redirecting all storage to an external device whether it is a RAID1 USB drive or a NAS device.

I will also be creating virtual image and testing OwnCloud in a Windows 2012 R2 environment shortly.

4. Go to administrator's manual of OwnCloud 8.0 and on the very second page it says that Windows server is not supported...

1. https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.0/admin_manual/operations/theming.html
2. You know, it uses apache webserver...
3. In apache webserver - use "Alias"

gheist, I have OwnCloud working successfully on both Ubuntu Server 14.04 and Windows 2012 R2 test environments.  We installed PHP, MySQL, and Apache on the Windows server.  Do you know which specific file(s) can be edited in order to update logo images and literature content?

whatever is in owncloud/core can be replaced with files in owncloud/themes as in instructions. ownclous/settings/(templates)/hrlp.php does same with help texts.

The link above to the ownCloud branding documents are not entirely accurate, nor thorough. The paths listed do not lead you where you need to go in ownCloud 7.x.x .

I am creating an Article today with the specific folders and file paths for each type of customization I have performed with a brief explanation of proper pixel sizing and where the image is visible. Once completed I will copy/ paste the contents of that article here to get you guys moving forward, and then request EE to publish it. Once published I will be pasting the links to the articles into the Discussions I have created for ownCloud.

I should be finished with the basics by this evening. Thanks for your patience.

Sounds good!  Just fyi, the latest version of OwnCloud is currently 8.02 which is what we installed and are exploring/testing.

Ok.
I actually do not run version 8.02 but will be upgrading when I can take my systems down for an evening.

Hopefully what I write in the Articles will still apply so let me know if they do not.

It should be obvious that owncloud 8.0 documents will not help you customize owncloud 7.0

It is fresh install, not 5.x where somebody woke up in 2 years that he can change the logo.

@eitconsulting: To quell gheists badgering I have downloaded v.8 . The stock icon and logo paths are the same as in v.7 . However, the documentation for v8 is inaccurate in the same ways as it was for v7. The documentation for both v.7 and v.8 branding is based on using a theme within the \themes folder, which is not where the default theme or files to change are. They would be there if you installed a theme and modified config.php to use that specific theme within the \themes folder. However, in the case of a fresh install, the files to modify are not in the \Themes directory as the above linked documents state - proving the inaccuracy I stated. If you look inside the \themes directory you will only see a README.TXT file - no directories or anything else matching the manual.

The paths and directories of v.7 and v.8 look identical on first check of the file structure and file names, which is to be expected and is also what I surmised. One thing I did not mention is that the path for 3rd party apps, which I specified in my document, is accurate if you moved the App into the \apps folder, which is generally where the App Author will specify to place it. If you put them into a different directory or use the one labeled '3rd Party', you will need to make that adjustment.

The info I provided should lead you right where you need to go. Let us know!

Thanks for the info.  I've resized the new images, maintained the same image names, restarted the Apache server, rebooted the Ubuntu 140.04 server, and verified the files were uploaded correctly after the reboot by redownloading the files, opening the files up and verified the images are the new logo images.  However, the only image that has actually been applied is the favicon.png while the others have not.  I also cleared Chrome, FIrefox, and IE from any history and to no avail, the old logo images continue to appear despite removing them and uploading the new company images.  Am I missing something?  Is the .svg file pointing the images to an external site?

You must use vector company logos (think 4k display wall and 320x240 mobile watch)

The need to alter the .SVG files is surprising to me. I have not edited a single one of those on any of my installations (Windows). However, I do have the .SVG and .SVGZ MMIE Types installed on the Web Server.
Perhaps that is why?

Either way, I have added the instructions to add the types into my ownCloud Group Discussions.

Uh, "my own comment" contributed to 100% of the success and solution.  Read my comment. :)