Customizing the Banner

In this section:

How to:

You can customize the links that display in the banner area for the public user and for Group Views. You can also change the height of the banner, remove the banner, and display a welcome message in the banner.

From the Logo & Links window in the View Builder, you can customize the display of all links that are available to the public user and in Group Views. By default, the available links for Group Views are Sign In/Out, Close, Accessibility, Tree, Tools, Recent, Favorites, Views, View Builder, Utilities, and Help.

When a user logs accesses their personal view of Dashboard (My View), all available links appear.

Note:

The following image shows the Logo & Links window containing the image file name text box for displaying company logo with option buttons indicating a left, center, or right position, an Available Links list box for adding links, and a Selected Links list box to order the links.

Logo and Links Window


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Procedure: How to Add Links to the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, select a view and click Edit Look.
  2. Click Logo & Links.

    The Logo & Links window opens.

  3. From the Available Links list, select the link you want to add to the Selected Links list.
  4. Click:
    • Add to add a link to the bottom of the Selected Links list.
    • Insert to insert a link above the highlighted link in the Selected Links list.

    The order of the links in the Selected Links list is the order in which they will appear in the view. You can position the links in the list by using the up and down arrows located between the Available Links and Selected Links lists.

  5. Click Preview.
  6. To save your changes, click Save.

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Procedure: How to Remove Links From the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, select a view and click Edit Look.
  2. Click Logo & Links.

    The Logo & Links window opens.

  3. In the Selected Links list, select the link you want to remove.
  4. Click Remove.

    The link is removed from the Selected Links list.

  5. Click Preview.
  6. To save your changes, click Save.

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Procedure: How to Clear All Links From the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, select a view and click Edit Look.
  2. Click Logo & Links.

    The Logo & Links window opens.

  3. Click Clear.

    All links in the Selected Links list clear, including the default Login link.

  4. Click Preview.
  5. To save your changes, click Save.

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Procedure: How to Remove the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, select a view and click Edit Look.
  2. Click Composition.
  3. Deselect the Check to use Banner check box.
  4. Click Save.

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Procedure: How to Change the Banner Height
  1. Open the profile.prf file in a text editor.

    This file is located in the drive:/ibi/WebFOCUS81/worp/worp_html directory in one of the following folders:

    • worp
    • worp0
    • worp1
    • worp2
    • worp3
    • worp4
    • worp5
    • worp6
    • worp7
    • worp-

    The number of the folder depends on the template you have chosen. To determine the number, point your mouse over the template in the Look window. Note that the numbers are in order (worp, worp0, worp1, worp2, and so on through worp-) from left to right starting with the top-left template.

  2. Edit the banner height section of the file to the desired height.

    The number represents the number of pixels for the banner height. The default value is 105.

    Note: The banner height must be a minimum of 50 pixels to sufficiently display the banner links. Some banner links, such as Help, have a drop-down menu associated with them. If the banner height is too small, the drop-down menu will not display and the functionality will not be available to the user.

  3. Save and close the profile.prf file.
  4. Open the View Builder and select the Public View or Group View that uses the banner.
  5. Select the banner in the Look window for the change to be propagated to the user Dashboard view.

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Displaying a Welcome Message in the Banner

How to:

A welcome message can be displayed in the top-left corner of the banner, where the name of the user logged on to the view appears as Welcome, User Name, as shown in the following image.

Welcome Message

The welcome message can be set to display globally in all views by editing a variable setting in the bid-config.xml file or set to display in specific views using the Dashboard View Builder. Note that the text in the welcome message inherits the same color used for the banner links.



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Procedure: How to Display a Welcome Message in the Banner of All Views
  1. In the drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS81\worp\conf directory, open the bid-config.xml file in a text editor.
  2. Edit the following variable to change it from:
    <internal-var name="showBannerUserGreeting" value="false"/>

    to

    <internal-var name="showBannerUserGreeting" value="true"/>

Note: After making changes to the bid-config.xml file, use the Console to clear the memory cache or restart the application. Until this is done, the change is not effective.



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Procedure: How to Display a Welcome Message in the Banner of Specific Views
  1. From the View Builder, select a view and click Edit Look.
  2. Click Edit Settings.
  3. Click the True option to the right of showBannerUserGreeting in the Settings pane.
  4. Click Save Settings.
  5. Click Close.

For more information about using the Edit Settings functionality in the Dashboard View Builder, see Customizing Dashboard Pages for a Public or Group View.


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