** This is especially true when copying from other’s work.
** If you’re not sure if something is necessary, comment it out and see if your xaml still fulfils its function. If it works, remove it.
** Described [[XAML_Best_practices#Performance | Read more in the next sectionon Performance]].
* 🏆 Empty out your UBIKThemes for a new customizing.
=== Understanding Templating in UBIK ===
Templates The most critical thing to understand about customizing your UI is that '''templates for the entire default UI are already present in the client’s core'''. Customizing templates allow modification us to modify of specific areas of the UI by overwriting the parts of the default UI with the same name. Therefore, only add the specific xamls that need to be customizedshould be added. This is recommended for many reasons;
* Custom xamls will ‘undo’ improvements to the UI coming from newer versions of the client, when they are based on xaml files from an older version of UBIK. For custom UIs there is no way around it, but this is why '''uncustomized copies of xamls should never be added to the project folder'''. To remove a customizing, simply delete that file (there . There is no need to replace it with an uncustomized version from the default folder).
* Less xaml files to parse means better performance.
* More xamls also makes it more difficult for others to read and understand the customizing. This also makes it much more difficult to find and diagnose errors when requesting support. It also generally increases the effort required to maintain the xamls.
Furthermore, remember to always deploy ==== Best Practices ====* 🏆 Deploy a new Default folder when updating every time you your client version, to ensure that the latest UI version is the foundation for your customizing.* 🏆 Only include xamls that are needed for your customizing.** Remove files for child Areas and Items that are not included in this project.
For more information ==== Template Selectors ====Various parts of the UBIK UI are dynamically swapped in based on templatingspecific conditions. One example is the UBIKPropertyDirectItemContainer.xaml, check out which serves as the base for an item in the property list, and which renders a different type-appropriate editing UI for each kind of property input (such as textbox, selection, datetime, geo coordinates, etc). The logical tree used by these selectors to render different UIs is documented in our article [[UBIK_Templates]].
