Change AX for Retail POS background color and create custom POS skins

When in the AX 2012 for Retail R2 POS, you may notice the background color is dark, light, green, etc. Depends on what is already configured (See Figure 1 below for dark theme).  You may want to change this theme.

Note: In order for the theme to be changed, you need to actually close out of the POS.exe instance and open a new one.

You can make changes to the theme via the visual profile in Figure 2. Alternately, for adhoc changes that will be overridden the next time the registers N (or A) job is run, you can make the changes in the RetailVisualProfile table to the POSSkinName field. This is a string so you can only put the following values out of the box (using default data):

1. 'blue'(Figure 4)
2. 'dark' (Figure 1)
3. 'gray' (Figure 5)
4. 'green' (Figure 6)
5. 'light' (Figure 7)
6. 'pink'. (Figure 8)

These options above are user configured so you can add your own if you have a DevExpress license. Remember that the POS uses a third party setup for POS layouts. In order to make a new skin, you need to use the SkinEditor located at '<root>\Program Files (x86)\DevExpress <version of the product>\Components\Tools\Windows Forms' For more info, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj937979.aspx

Figure 1- The POS 'dark' theme

Figure 2 - AX Visual Profile for setting the POS theme color

Figure 3 - Changing the visual layout in SQL

Figure 4 - Blue theme

Figure 5 - Grey theme

Figure 6 - Green Theme

Figure 7 - Light theme

Figure 8 - Pink theme