I have had requests over the last few months asking how one might customize the look and feel of Publisher. I started to delve into the css and html files but its just too time consuming and a mine field to try even the simplest changes.
Before I go further, if you try this and make changes, you are on your own, support can not help you out if you stuff it up. Be sure to back up the CSS files!
I have to thank Mike Reller from the BIEE team, I was watching a webinar on customizing the look and feel of BIEE. He had found a very cool Firefox plugin - FireBug.
Once installed it manifests itself as a bug icon in the bottom right of the Firefox window.
Excuse the Monkey - thats a useful plugin too if you're out on the forum regularly.
When you are viewing any page, you can hit the bug icon and you'll get a panel in the bottom half of the browser. Its filled with the HTML and CSS items in the current page. Heres the folder view for Publisher.
As you can see you can now see where the CSS is and its contents. If you hover on the CSS or HTML the area will be highlighted in the browser. As you can see below the Folder icon area is highlighted in the browser page and there is a popup of the folder icon image.
Using this method I went into the images directory (J2EE_HOME\applications\xmlpserver\xmlpserver\xdo\images and swapped out the folder.gif with a new one. Reloaded the page et voila!
Red Folders!
So, its still not simple but its very doable with a little Firebug help!
Comments (3)
Tim,
I agree Firebug is a fantastic tool for making HTML/CSS changes. But I think it's useful to mention that you first need to click on the 'Inspect' button, otherwise the areas on your page will not highlight ...
Usually you won't change the HTML, but only the CSS. Maybe it's good to know that Firebug allows you to change the style sheets and preview the outcome immediately. These changes are not saved to the actual CSS files (since this requires access to the server and authorization). This is a very intuitive way of customizing the look and feel of your page, even with a limited knowledge of CSS.
Jouke
Posted by Jouke | August 19, 2008 11:11 PM
Posted on August 19, 2008 23:11
@Jouke - thanks for the insight
Posted by Tim | August 20, 2008 11:44 AM
Posted on August 20, 2008 11:44
Tim,
if we need to change the default text "Oracle BI Publisher" that appears at the top after logging into the application.can this be done??
Do we need to change the CSS files and which files do we need to make changes in,and where are those located??
Regards,
Gaurav
Posted by Gaurav Rana | September 7, 2009 11:40 PM
Posted on September 7, 2009 23:40