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Sunday, July 30, 2017

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Customizing Skins and Styles on Windows


Updating bicustom.ear file
The bicustom-template.ear file contains a bicustom.war file. Web Archive (WAR) files are also ZIP files composed of a specific folder and file structure. You must update the bicustom.war file within the bicustom-template.ear file to include your custom skin files.

Copy bicustom-template.ear 
Extract / Copy bicustom-template.ear to bicustom.ear,  bicustom-template.ear  available in below path
  • <OBI_HOME> \Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\jee\
  • Extract bicustom.ear into the same path

Update the bicustom.ear file
  • Extract the bicustom.war file from bicustom.ear file
  • Extract the files from the bicustom.war file.
  • Edit the files to create your custom styles.

Replacing Oracle logo with customized logo:
To replace the oracle logo with the customized image, first save the customized image with same precision and name it as oracle_logo.png
Replace the customized image (oracle_logo.png) in the following path.

<OBIEE_HOME>\ Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\jee\bicustom\res\s_Custom\master












To modify the background color:
To change the background color in OBIEE edit master.css file
File path: <OBIEE_HOME>\ Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\jee\bicustom\res\s_Custom\master
  • Open the master.css file.
  • Scroll down and locate the class that you want to customize.
  • In the sample code, modify the .masterBrandingArea class. Also note that the code contains inline comments to identify that code section













  • Change the HTML background color value from #000000 to #115740 to change the color from black to green color.
  • Save the file
  • Now update the bicustom.war file with your changes.
  •  To update the file archive custom folder into bicustom.zip or bicustom.7z













  •         Then change the file extension from .7z/ .zip to .war (web archive)
  •      Similarly update the bicustom.ear file with your new bicustom.war file by using zip
          Deploying the bicustom.ear file

          Login to Oracle Weblogic Server Administration Console   







      Click Lock & Edit.
Click Deployments in the Domain structure region



Click on Deployments



Click on Install

Give the path to bicustom.ear file as below




Select the bicustom.ear file and click next














Select install this deployment as an application and click next



Select bi_cluster as a target and click next


Select I will make the deployment accessible from the following location

Click on finish
Click save and then activate changes

Now go to the deployments again and start the newly creates application 

Modify the instanceconfig.xml file UI tag under <OBIEE_HOME>\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1 as below



Save and close the file and restart the bi presentation component

Now login to analytics page and check for the new custom page



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