Using a different theme for a test workspace

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I’d like to understand whether it’s possible, in any given workspace, to use a different theme than the one already installed (and inherited from the master at the time the workspace was created). My goal is to study development using the store-theme provided by VTEX as a starting point.

Looking through the forum, I found a similar topic (Store theme linked but no changes occur) mentioning that there’s a page within the logged-in area where you can choose which theme should be used for a specific URL. However, I’m not sure whether changing this setting (in the test workspace’s admin) would also impact the production environment.

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@falmeidaco if your plan is to use a different theme in just one workspace, within that workspace you can uninstall the store theme and link yours — we actually use this when developing new stores in environments where stores are already running.

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Uninstalling this theme in the specific workspace won’t affect the master (and the production store), right? The uninstallation is done via the vtex command line, right?

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It doesn’t affect it, as long as you’re in the dev workspace (pay close attention to that) — run a vtex whoami to make sure before doing it, and then you can be certain it won’t affect master.