Changing the color of Menu links in portal header

Here are the steps to modify global menu links on portal headers in OBIEE 11g. Requirement is to change blue color of links (like HOME,Search,Catalog,etc).

Steps :-

1. Open Common.css located at $Home\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\app\res\sk_blafp\b_mozilla_4
2. Find Entry with .HeaderSearchGo.
3. You will find colort propery of thie class as .HeaderMenubar, .HeaderQuickSearchPrompt, .HeaderSearchGo{HeaderSearchGo{color:#A9DFF5;}
4. Now change according to the need. In my case, I wanted to change it to #99CC00.
5. Ex. .HeaderSearchGo{color:#99CC00;}
6. Save the file.
7. Replicate the same change in tmp file located at user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\tmp\_WL_user\analytics_11.1.1\silp1v\war\res\sk_blafp\b_mozilla_4.
8. Save the file.
9. Restart the services.
10. Sometimes, need to clear the browser cache also.

This post is just an example. You can change most of the CSS files as per need.

One more example is how to change color of the dashboard headr container to green. For that I have changed HeaderContainer's background color property like shown below.

.HeaderContainer {

    -moz-font-feature-settings: normal;

    -moz-font-language-override: normal;

    -x-system-font: none;

    background-color: #339966;

    font-family: Tahoma;

    font-size: 11px;

    font-size-adjust: none;

    font-stretch: normal;

    font-style: normal;

    font-variant: normal;

    font-weight: normal;

    line-height: normal;

}

Header after these changes looks like

Cheers..

OBIEE11g -- changing Gauge view scale properties

Recently I was working on Gauges design and I had to display %Ratio of the % column in gauges. It looks straight forward requirement but could not find out a way to change % display on scales to data values easily.

searched google/helps, but could not solve it. My % Ratio column shows %of total in scales which makes no sense for the user to analyze it.

1. This is what being displayed at first when you pull the column in the Gauges view.

2. I thought there will be an option available in properties to change the % values to actual values. Tried multiple options under Layout/Settings but no change on the scales, yet :-(

3. Then I clicked on Edit Gauge Properties Properties and looked at all the options. Went through all the options like Style, Scale, Titles and Labels but no luck.

4.  Did I miss something? Well, Yes. Going through the options again, I show options called Scale Labels in Titles and Labels. Initially I thought it would be only for the formatting of the scale.

Along with options of Font/Number Format, this also gives you an option of "Display Options". Here I could change Scale Labels to Actual Values instead of Default (Percentage of Total)

5. After making this change, I could achieve my guage layout as expected. Wow, there was no bug :-). I feel, placement of this option should be placed at the first tab under Gauge properties :-).




Cheers...