28 Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved. Customizing the Oracle Business Intelligence User Interface

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Identify and explore cascading style sheets used by Oracle Business Intelligence Modify Interactive Dashboard user interface styles by using cascading style sheets Modify non-dashboard user interface components by using XML message files Make configuration changes by using instanceconfig.xml

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Cascading Style Sheets Enable the style and layout of HTML files to be separated from their informational content –Typically linked through an external sheet by using the HTML tag Are made up of style rules that tell a browser how to present a document: –Rules are called classes. –Each class comprises one or more property–value pairs in the following format:.class { property:value } Example:.TitleLogo { width: 1%; vertical-align: bottom; position: relative; top: 1px ; }

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Business Intelligence Cascading Style Sheets Define the Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards user interface Can be modified by Web developers with administrator rights Are located at OracleBI\web\app\res\s_oracle10\b_mozilla_4\ Should be saved as copies in the OracleBIData\web\res\ folder to prevent changes from being overwritten by upgrades

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Modifying Cascading Style Sheets The overall look and feel of the dashboards is controlled by: – portalbanner.css – portalcontent.css Each Business Intelligence view has its own section in views.css.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Sample Style Sheet Entry This cascading style sheet entry sets the defaults for the body of the dashboard..PortalBody { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; background-color: #FFFFFF; margin: ; } Colors in the CSS files are in hexadecimal format. Style class

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved XML Message Files Message files are used to customize text elements. Language-specific XML message files have their own folder: – web\msgdb\l_xx\messages (language identifier: l_xx ) –Example: For U.S. English, the identifier is en. Template and message sample XML files are stored in the web\msgdb\messages folder. You store customized XML messages in the customMessages folder. –If you already have a file in this folder, do not modify, move, or delete it. To make new messages available, you must restart the Oracle Business Intelligence Server.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved XML Message Structure The file name indicates the type of content. Each file can contain multiple messages. Message format: Example: Message contents Choose Request

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Making Configuration Changes by Using instanceconfig.xml Make changes to the instanceconfig.xml message file to override default parameters

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved instanceconfig.xml : Example Several entries are present by default: –Path to Presentation Catalog –Oracle BI Server ODBC data source name Add custom entries as needed. Data Source Name Presentation catalog path Custom entry

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Sample Configuration Changes Use instanceconfig.xml to override general default parameters and internal default settings for Siebel Analytics Web. Configuration file path Remember user name and password. Time to expire for idle connections Time to log off users automatically

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Administering Oracle BI Answers by Using instanceconfig.xml Use instanceconfig.xml to override specific default parameters and internal default settings for Oracle BI Answers. Examples: –Maximum number of pivot table records –Maximum number of pivot table populated cells –Maximum number of table view rows

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Maximum Number of Pivot Table Records This overrides the maximum number of rows that can be processed by a pivot table. Internal default: 20,000

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Maximum Number of Pivot Table Populated Cells This overrides the maximum number of populated cells that Presentation Services allows in a pivot table. Internal default: 150,000

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Maximum Number of Table View Rows This overrides the maximum number of rows that appear in a table view. Internal default: 65,000

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Identify and explore cascading style sheets used by Oracle Business Intelligence Modify Interactive Dashboard user interface styles by using cascading style sheets Modify non-dashboard user interface components by using XML message files Make configuration changes by using instanceconfig.xml

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Practice 28: Overview This practice covers the following topics: Modifying the user interface Using cascading style sheets Using instanceconfig.xml to administer Oracle BI Answers Using XML message files to administer Oracle BI Answers

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