1. OBIEE Training – E2 (Oracle BI Presentation Server – Customization)
OBIEE CoE - BT
TEG Telecom

2. Cascading Style Sheets
Allow for the separation of the style and layout of HTML files from their informational content
Typically linked via external sheet using the HTML LINK 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 format: .class { property:value }
Example
Class name
Multiple property/value pairs are separated by a semi-colon
.TitleLogo { width: 1%;
vertical-align: bottom;
position: relative;
top: 1px; }

3. Analytics Cascading Style Sheets
Define the Dashboard user interface (UI)
Can be modified by Web developers with administrator rights
Are located at: C:\OracleBI\Web\App\Res\s_oracle10\b_mozilla_4\
Keep copies of modified file in the C:\OracleBIData\Web\Res\ folder because changes can be overwritten by upgrades

4. Modifying Cascading Style Sheets
Overall look and feel of the Dashboards is controlled by:
PortalBanner.css
PortalContent.css
Each Analytics view has its own section inside Views.css

5. Sample Style Sheet Entry
This cascading style sheet entry sets the defaults for the body of the Dashboard:
Style class
.PortalBody {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
font-size: 9pt;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: ; }
Colors in CSS files are in hex format

6. XML Message Files Used to customize text elements
Language-specific XML message files have their own folder
Web\App\Res\l_xx\Messages where l_xx is the language identifier
Example: for english-usa, the identifier is en
UIMessages.xml file contains frequently-customized messages
Store customized XML messages the CustomMessage folder
You may already have a file in this folder; do not modify, move, or delete
Restart the Oracle BI Server to make new messages available

7. XML Message Structure File name indicates the type of content
Each file can contain multiple messages
Message format:
Example:
<WebMessage name=“messageName”>
Message contents
</WebMessage>
<WebMessage name="kmsgChooseReport">
<TEXT>Choose Request</TEXT>
</WebMessage>

8. Simple Object Access Protocol
Oracle BI exposes the Web services via the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
The following SOAP services are available:
Session
HTML View
XML View
Catalog
HTTP

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