Customise look and feel of Oracle BI EE 11g

Lets now see how to customize the look and feel of Oracle BI EE 11g. By this, I mean, changing the 'sign in' page colour, the logo and the background colour after signing in.

       There are lot of documents specifying about this customization in a different manner. But, with these simple steps, one can change the look and feel.

       First, copy the 2 folders s_blafp and sk_blafp from C:\BIEE11g\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\app\res to C:\BIEE11g\instances\instance2\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes.

       Change the logo in 2 places in the sk_blafp folder. The first place is in 'b_mozilla_4' folder (i,e C:\BIEE11g\instances\instance2\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes\sk_blafp\b_mozilla_4). The second place is 'login' folder (C:\BIEE11g\instances\instance2\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes\sk_blafp\login). Create a new logo as per this dimension ~(119 * 25). Name this logo as Oracle_logo.png. Copy and paste this logo in the above 2 places replacing the already existing Oracle_logo.png.

       You can change the background colour in the 'login.css' under C:\BIEE11g\instances\instance2\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes\sk_Eden\login and 'home.css' under C:\BIEE11g\instances\instance2\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\analyticsRes\sk_Eden\b_mozilla_4.

Make an entry in instanceconfig.xml as below

<UI><DefaultSkin>blafp</DefaultSkin></UI>

 Restart all the services including weblogic server. The new look and feel should appear when the services are up as below.