Tuesday, February 2, 2016

OBIEE Logo and Message Customization

Customize Brand Name


We have few changes in productmessage.xml and common.xml file for customize the Brand name

Changes in productmessages.xml:

we need to edit the productmessages.xml file for brand name change, which file is placed below specified path.

Obiee installation folder\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\msgdb\l_en\messages


Before edit the productmessages.xml file:


<WebMessage name="kmsgHeaderBIBrandName"><TEXT>Business Intelligence</TEXT></WebMessage>



After edit the productmessages.xml file:

<WebMessage name="kmsgHeaderBIBrandName"><TEXT>Management Reporting</TEXT></WebMessage>



Changes in common.xml:

we need to edit the common.xml file for change the font size and color, which file is placed below specified path.
Path :

E:\apps\OBIEE11g\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes\sk_sapient\b_mozilla_4



Changes in common.xml file:

We have to change below script in common.xml

Before change the script

HeaderBrandName
{
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:Tahoma;
position:absolute;
left:130px;top:2px;
color:#0d4a8b;
font-size:17px;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
display:inline-block;
}

After change the script

HeaderBrandName
{
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:Tahoma;
position:absolute;
left:130px;top:2px;
color:#F15D22 ;
font-size:17px;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
display:inline-block;
}

Save it.

Restart the opmn services


Note: Before do changes, We should take backup of xml file and css file. We should take care of all changes. These are very sensitive changes.