OBIEE Report Skin & Style Customization

Oracle BI EE 11g – Styles, Skins & Custom XML Messages

There are 2 different choices of customizing the Styles, Skin and XML messages.

1. Creating a copy of Default folder into a different location and hosting as a application
   
2. Changing the Out of Box Styles, Skin and Custom XML
   

 

1. Replacing the Oracle logo with ''Airtel" logo using the first approach:

Steps to change the orcale logo.

 

Copy the folders s_blafp and sk_blafp, create a target directory and save the two folders and rename as shown below.

Copy the WEB-INF directory from {MIDDLEWARE_HOME}\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServer\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes to E:\bie11g the folder looks like this

Replace the Oracle logo in two locations with same name oracle_logo.png

 

Login to console.

Click on deployments and then Click on lock & Edit

Click on install:

Under Path provide E:\bie11g and select biee11g

Select Install this deployment as application:

Select the application bie11g and start, once it gets started this looks like this

Active State.

Open the instanceconfig.xml file and add the below XML tags:

<URL> <CustomerResourcePhysicalPath>E:\bie11g</CustomerResourcePhysicalPath> <CustomerResourceVirtualPath>/bie11g</CustomerResourceVirtualPath> </URL>

 

<UI> <DefaultStyle>blafp_Test</DefaultStyle> <DefaultSkin>blafp_Test</DefaultSkin> </UI>

 

The instanceconfig.xml looks like this: E:\obi11g\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1

Restart the presentation service and log in to Analytics: