(Change of color) Customized title bar of “Cognos Navigator"

Technote (troubleshooting)

Problem (Abstract)

By the display of how the page “Cognos Navigator” and the file to be set is different, you will learn how to specify them here.(However, because it is a method of support outside, under the responsibility of your customers, you will need if you decide to respond to your environment.)

Symptom

■ Phenomenon: In the page that you added on to Cognos Connection "Personal Portal tab” is, the editing style skin, you can not change the color of the title bar of the Cognos Navigator.

1 . If you view the page where you added the “Cognos Navigator".

You can customize the color of the title bar of the “Cognos Navigator “by editing the following files. (Dotted line in Figure 1)

File location : < Cognos install path >\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\fragments\styles\skins\ <skin name>

Figure 1

2 . If you add to the " Personal Portal tab" , you view the page by clicking the tab

1. If you view by adding the Cognos Connection to "Personal Portal tab" page, click on the tab, the color of the title bar of the "Cognos Navigator" does not change. (Dotted line in Figure 2)

Figure 2

Cause

In order to customize (color) change the title bar of Cognos Navigator, editing of multiple files is required.

Solution1. If you view the page where you added the " Cognos Navigator "

How to customize the title bar of the page in Figure 1 for the " Cognos Navigator "

File location : < install path > \ webapps \ p2pd \ WEB-INF \ fragments \ styles \ skins \ edit "style" fileExample : C: \ Program Files \ cognos \ c84_fp1 \ webapps \ p2pd \ WEB-INF \ fragments \ styles \ skins \ business.xml

Changes :

Part 1 of 2)( First part omitted )<-! Portlet -><color name="portletCaptionText" paletteColor="color.darker"/><color name="portletCaptionBackground" paletteColor="color.change"/> <=== set (the name of the color for paletteColor) what you want to set new<color name="portletCaptionBorder" paletteColor="color.normal"/>, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Part 2 of 2)( First part omitted )

<skin name="business" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../schemas/cssstyles.xsd"><palette><!-- basic b/w --><color name="black">#000000</color><color name="white">#ffffff</color><!-- 5 shades of colours --><color name="color.lighter">#e1ebf2</color><color name="color.light">#d8e2e9</color><color name="color.medium">#cccccc</color><color name="color.normal">#8cadbd</color><color name="color.dark">#336699</color><color name="color.darker">#000063</color><color name="color.change">#33ff66</color> < === For paletteColor that was set in 1 ) , set the color

2 . If you add to the " Personal Portal tab" , you view the page by clicking the tab

How to customize the title bar of the page in Figure 2 for the " Cognos Navigator "

Location of the file : < installation path > \ webcontent \ skins \ < you have specified in My Preferences "style" name (*)> \ portal \ default.css* Example ; such as " corporate "

Changes :

( First part omitted )/* Portlet Header */.boxHeaderBackground{background-color: #000000;<=== Change the color of this part

}

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