Oracle Business Intelligence 12c: CSS

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Saturday, 5 November 2016

Remove / Hide Dashboard section borders OBIEE 11g

Hi,

Got a new requirement for the formatting OBIEE dashboard. Our customer wants to hide the section border, default blue layout, etc etc. In short, dashboard background page would contain a plain white colour like in any white paper document.

Yes of course, we can opt for None for the Border of that particular section, but that want affect for the background colour. Even if you set the background colour for all sections in your page, the default blue colour will not leave your screen.

For this, I've come up with one HTML/CSS script which will reset all the formatting related to section/column to a white colour or set it to none.

Drag one text box to your page > edit > paste the below script into it > select "Contains HTML Markup" > save the changes.

<style>
.DashboardPageContentDiv{
background-color:white;
padding:0px;
}
.SectionTable{
background-image:none;
border-left:none;
border-right:none;
border-top:none;
border-bottom:none;
margin-right:0px;
margin-left:0px
-webkit-box-shadow:none;
box-shadow:none;
}
</style>

There you are, enjoy..!!

Friday, 31 July 2015

Rename Apply / Reset button in OBIEE prompts

If you ever wondered to change or rename Apply / Reset buttons on OBIEE dasboard prompts, here's the way.

Go to the following path on your box,

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\msgdb\l_en\messages

At this location, you will get all XML files that OBIEE uses to throw messages/errors that in human readable format. For instnace, pick the file viewmessages.xml

Here you wil get all the messages or defauls strings that we see in day-to-day things (like Apply, Reset, Reset, ViewDisplayError, NoRows, etc) in OBIEE.

Change the below tag for renaming Apply button,

Default one:
<WebMessage name="kmsgEVCPromptApply"><HTML>Apply</HTML></WebMessage>

Change it to,
<WebMessage name="kmsgEVCPromptApply"><HTML>Go</HTML></WebMessage>

That's it. Just bounce your services to load all the modified configuration files. You in with Go..!!

Happy stay.!! :-)

Hide BreadCrumbs in OBIEE 11g

There might be a requirment like, you need to hide breadcrumbs on your dashboard or reports. To achieve this, obviously you need deal with some css files. Here we go

There are files common.css you can find on below mentioned paths.
Location:
C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\appv2\res\s_FusionFX\b_mozilla_4\common.css

From below path, select the skin you are using.
C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\tmp\_WL_user\analytics_11.1.1\7dezjl\war\res

My skin is, s_blafp so my path would be,
C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\tmp\_WL_user\analytics_11.1.1\7dezjl\war\res\s_blafp\b_mozilla_4

Find .breadcrumb tag thoughout this file and add "display:none;" (without the quotes) (You probably have total 11 breadcrumb tags in this file) :-P

For sample, one of your tag will look like this,

.BreadCrumbDiv{width:100%;border:none;background-color:#DEEAF1;margin:-7px 0 0 0;height:22px;display:none;}

PS: Changing a CSS files in the default OBIEE folder, is NOT a recommended method at all. Instead create a Custom StyleSkin from existing one and you are ready to make plenty of all possible changes throughout your CSS world. If gets failed, switch back to defaul one. ;-)

The reason this is not recommended is,

You change a CSS file in the default OBIEE folder, you are happy with your changes, that's fine.
4 months later somebody patch your OBIEE to fix some bugs or security issues and surprise: your changes disappeared, they are gone.

So you go back and change the CSS file again after having your users complaining with you first that things changed. 3 weeks later another patch is applied and guess what? Again, you lost your changed and you have to apply all these things again.

Now, if you only set the "display:none" for a single class or ID it's 1 line to change, but as you started in that way you will probably change other things, in the end you have a list of 10-20 things to change. The first time you still remember everything, the second time you forget to change 3 lines of the 20, the third time only half of the changes etc.

Happy bloggin..!!